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Possibly I have by chance hit exactly on the mark, because nuku means the land:
When all the people in the land (nuku) extinguish their fires that could be the day of Ca14-23. The first of the underpages:
If each glyph stands for one day, then Ca14-26 cannot be counted from Ca1-1 - given that it is located at day 364. 389 - 364 = 25 and it must be counted from Ca1-26:
This seems to be entirely plausible. The 'head' in Ca1-26 is like a nut, the earliest point in life. And in Ca1-25 three 'fire fingers' combines - maybe - with a variant of 'the recycling station', which could stand for the last point of the preceding life. Both the glyph and its number in the line agree with Ga2-25, number 64 + 26 = 90 counted from Rogo:
However, we must also consider our Rogo in Ca3-25 (notice the same ordinal number, a square of 'fire'):
Here we have ordered the glyphs in pair, assuming 2 are needed for 1 day:
Rogo is the last glyph in line a3, with ordinal number 76 counted from Ca1-1. Its day number becomes 38 if 2 glyphs are needed for 1 day (as if to say the 38th day among 9 - cfr 389). On the other hand 389 - 75 = 314:
If 2 glyphs are needed for 1 day, then Ca14-26 becomes the 2nd half of day 157 (counted from Ca3-25). 1 glyph per day agrees with the numbers in Ca14-26 (where 14 * 26 = 364), a strong sign:
We can therefore provisionally assign day numbers accordingly:
Henua in Ca14-16 (of the 'midnight type') is clearly the shortest of all in the Mamari text. 354 = 12 * 29.5 and if we interpret henua as a staff for ruling, then Hatinga Te Kohe (where the kuhane broke the 'bamboo') presumably is alluded to. The staff was no more as long as before. The sky roof became lower, because the staff holding it up had become shorter. And compare with G:
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