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By comparing the text of G with the text in C it becomes possible to position maro in Ca6-24 as the last glyph of 165 - given that we begin counting from the last glyph on side b (exactly as when we count from Gb8-30 to find the kuhane stations in that text):

64 96
Cb14-19 (1) Ca3-14 (66) Ca3-15 Ca3-16 Ca6-24 (165)
65 100

The text on side a of G is shorter than the text on side a of C and the parallel in G must therefore begin earlier on side b:

63 96
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb8-30 (1) Ga4-14 Ga4-15 Ga4-16 (100)
65 100

The 'fists' held high in Ca3-14 apparently is another explanation of what in Gb8-30 is described with puo ('to dress', as when a plant is hilled up).

We can say that Ca6-24 and Ga4-16 identify the last one of 100 days counted from the beginning of the 'front side' of the year.

In G the 2nd and 3rd 100-day periods are initiated by Rei glyphs, and another period with 65 days then completes the symmetry:

98 98
Ga4-17 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Gb3-9 (300)
100 100
63
Gb3-10 Gb5-11 (365)
65

There is a kind of arm- and legless honu in Gb3-10. On its outside there are 8 + 8 = 16 'feathers', as if the central figure is hiding the rays from the sun.

 

Gb3-10 is not a tamaiti, neither a Rogo, but something in between, possibly a hakaua:

Gb3-10 tamaiti Rogo hakaua

The first 100 days of the 'front side' maybe are characterized by sun not yet releasing his lifegiving rays in quantity enough to make any difference. Then there will be 100 days of increasing strength, followed by decreasing strength:

98 98
Ga4-17 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Gb3-9 (300)
100 100

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Maro glyphs are used to indicate where sun is on his path over the year, e.g.:

summer solstice winter solstice
Ga5-15 *Ca14-23

At summer solstice the sky roof is high, which explains the gap between the lower and upper parts of the glyph. At winter solstice sun's rays are very weak, as if something was standing in their way.

The maro glyph type has an opposite, where the pointed 'cap' is inverted into a 'cup' in a Y-formed 'henua':

*Ca14-23 *Ca14-14

*Ca14-14 is also located in midwinter, which the half hidden 'feathers' presumably indicate.

Examples show that maro glyphs are positioned as last glyph in some long sequence of glyphs, for instance is Ca6-24 number 100:

64 96
Cb14-19 (1) Ca3-14 (66) Ca3-15 Ca3-16 Ca6-24 (165)
65 100

But if maro is inverted this rule does not apply. Instead the inverted maro seems to come at the beginning:

235 235
Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7 (1)
472 = 16 * 29.5

 

The sign instead of 'eye' at left in Ga5-15 is the same as in Ga7-30:

73
Ga5-15 (126) Ga7-30 (200)

However, the position of Ga5-15 is rather 199 than 126:

71 125
Gb6-17 (1) Gb6-18 Ga5-15 Ga5-16
200
56
Ga5-17 (201) Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 (260)
60
73
Ga5-15 (199) Ga7-30 (273)

Maybe the midsummer season is 75 days long (= 25 % of 300 days).

The position in day 200 + 73 suggests it could be 73 days long (= 20 % of 365 days).