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Next page (with underpage) is the second and last of 'investigation':

A year with 400 days is a concept which apparently can be used in order to interpret maro in Ga5-15. The 400th glyph in the text - counted from Gb8-30 - is Gb6-17 and it seems to serve the function of identifying next glyph as a point from which to start counting anew (cfr Cb6-25--26):


Gb6-17	Gb6-18 (401)	Gb6-19	Gb6-20	Gb6-21	Gb6-22	Gb6-23	Gb6-24

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28	Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3 (414)	Gb7-4

The redmarked glyphs lie 73, 64, respectively 59 days from the end of side b. If we add 73 to 126 the ordinal number for Ga5-15 will be 199:

18
18	Ga5-10	Ga5-11	Ga5-12	Ga5-13	Ga5-14	Ga5-15 (199)	Ga5-16

Evidence points at Gb6-18 as the correct point from which to count the ordinal numbers (day numbers) for the glyphs in the 'henua periods'.

This means we presumably should regard maro in Ga5-15 primarily as a sign which identifies the midpoint of this 400 day long year. Or to be more accurate, it is the last glyph before the end of the first half of these 400 days - a period with an even number of days must have two glyphs in its middle:

18	19

Ga5-16 (200)	Ga5-17 (201)

Counting from Gb6-18 there are 73 days (glyphs) to the end of side b. Then follow 50 + 7 more at the beginning of side a (including Gb8-30). The table below is an upgraded version of one we have seen several times earlier in this dictionary:

period no.	number of glyphs from Gb8-30
end of side b	73	73		130	260
beginning of side a	50	50
0	7	7
1, 2, 3	8 + 4 + 7 = 19	35	19	130
4, 5, 6	3 + 2 + 3 = 8		27
7, 8, 9	4 + 2 + 2 = 8		35
10, 11, 12	2 + 3 + 2 = 7	35	42
13, 14, 15	4 + 3 + 5 = 12		54
16, 17, 18	3 + 6 + 7 = 16		70
19, 20, 21	5 + 8 + 5 = 18	30	18
22, 23, 24	4 + 3 + 5 = 12	30	30
25, 26, 27	2 + 2 + 3 = 7	30	37
28, 29, 30	3 + 3 + 4 = 10		47
31	6		53
32, 33	4 + 3 = 7		60
34	3	3

260 days = 130 days before and 130 days in the 'henua calendar'. Day number 260 is Ga7-17:

32
32	Ga7-11 (254)	Ga7-12	Ga7-13	Ga7-14
33
33	Ga7-15	Ga7-16	Ga7-17 (260)
34
34	Ga7-18	Ga7-19	Ga7-20

The preceding mago (Ga7-16) is, we know, the endpoint of half a year:

	180
Ga1-4 (5)		Ga7-16 (186)
vaha mea		mago
182 days

Ga7-17 will accordingly be not only day 260 from Gb6-18 but also the central glyph in a year which is 365 days long. Ga7-17 is defined both from Ga7-16 and from Gb6-18.

The interesting manu rere in Gb4-6 (where 4 * 6 = 24) has ordinal number 327 counted from Gb8-30. If we count from Gb6-18 ít will instead be day number 73 + 327 = 400:


Gb3-30	Gb4-1	Gb4-2	Gb4-3	Gb4-4	Gb4-5

Gb4-6 (400)	Gb4-7	Gb4-8	Gb4-9	Gb4-10	Gb4-11

Gb4-12	Gb4-13	Gb4-14	Gb4-15	Gb4-16	Gb4-17

With glyph line b4 hau tea becomes reversed. Hoea pau is the last glyph before darkness falls.

Manu rere in Gb4-15 is day number 336 + 64 = 400 counted from winter solstice. The following strange glyph has 9 + 9 'feathers' and may be connected with Gb1-6:

	98
Gb1-6 (300)		Gb4-15 (400)	Gb4-16
100

Ordinal number -17 in a glyph line perhaps identifies glyphs which are the first of something new:


Ga5-17 (201)	Gb6-17 (400)	Ga7-17 (260)

The other side of the coin must then be that -16 identifews glyphs which are the last in something old:


Ga5-16 (200)	Gb6-16 (399)	Ga7-16 (259)
*5 16 = 80 = 8 * 10**	*6 16 = 96 = 8 * 12**	*7 16 = 112 = 8 * 14**
*4 20**	*4 24**	*4 28**

With the 400-day long year now defined by beginning, middle, and end, the question becomes - what is the function of the remaining 72 days? We can at least look at the midsection of those 72:

	198			198
Gb6-18 (1)	198	Ga5-16 (200)	Ga5-17	198	Gb4-6 (400)
	34			34
Gb4-7 (1)	34	Gb5-10 (36)	Gb5-11	34	Gb6-17 (72)

Glyph number 364 (counted from Gb8-30) is equal to glyph number 400 + 36 counted from Gb6-18.

436 - 364 = 72. 436 is also the reflection of 364. Is this the reason why the 400 day long year is beginning where it is?

There are 8 glyphs from Gb6-18 to Rogo and another 5 to tamaiti:

	7		4
Gb6-18 (401)		Gb6-26 (409)		Gb7-3 (414)
	12

Tamaiti in Gb4-7 has a flat bottom (or rather slightly concave), and 6 + 6 feathers. It has sun signs. Also, it is the 1st of 36, ending with vaha kai. The ordinal number counted from Gb8-30 is 364 - 36 = 328 (32 and 8).

180		81		64		85		58
	Ga7-11		Gb2-7		Gb4-7		Gb7-3
	181		263		328		414

Tamaiti in Ga7-11 has a location as first glyph beyond half a 360-day long year. It is the child personifying the 2nd half.

81 days between Ga7-11 and Gb2-7 is 9 * 9, but also repeats 81 in 181, as if to say that 181 is 100 + 9 * 9.

But between Gb2-7 and Gb4-7 there are not 63 but 64 glyphs - the 360-day year is not yet at its end (which 63 would signify).

Another reason for 64 is that 328 can be read as 32 * 8 = 4 * 64 (= 256).

85 and 58 are mirror reflections flanking the moon tamaiti (= 14 * 29.5 + 1).

From Gb7-3 up to and including Ga7-11 there are 59 + 181 = 240 days.

	58	180		81		64		85
Gb7-3			Ga7-11		Gb2-7		Gb4-7
414			181		263		328
1			240		322		387
6			245		327		392
14			253		335		400

392 is the number of glyphs on side a of Mamari.