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In Mamari the following three maro glyphs resemble, to a certain degree, the two we have considered in G:

Ca6-24 *Ca14-23 Ga5-15
inverted:
Cb11-18 Gb1-7

*Ca14-23 is special in showing 'feathers' only on the 'outside'. The glyph can possibly be regarded as a combination of maro and nuku:

maro *Ca14-23 nuku

The effect is as if a solid body had intruded in the center, intercepting most of the 'light rays' - as if it was a solar eclipse.

*Ca14-23 is located at winter solstice and at that time sun light is weak. At a certain time all the fires are extinguished in sympathy with the sun.

 

Possibly I have by chance hit exactly on the mark, because nuku means the land:

Nuku

1. Pau.: nuka, crowd, throng. Ta.: nuú, army, fleet. Mg.: nuku, a host, army. 2. Mgv.: nuku, land, country, place. Sa.: nu'u, district, territory, island. Churchill.

When all the people in the land (nuku) extinguish their fires that could be the day of Ca14-23.

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These are the last 12 glyphs on side a of Mamari:

*Ca14-18 (381) *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20 *Ca14-21 *Ca14-22 *Ca14-23
*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)

The unusual manu kake in *Ca14-26 is located between two Rogo glyphs (*Ca14-25 and *Ca14-28), and its numbers could allude to day number 14 * 26 = 364.

Honu in *Ca14-22 has lost his 'legs', presumably a sign that sun is slowing down and a prelude to the arrival of Rogo:

*Ca14-18 *Ca14-20 *Ca14-22 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-28

 

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:

Ca1-19 Ca1-20 Ca1-21 Ca1-22 Ca1-23 Ca1-24 Ca1-25
te maitaki - te kihikihi hakaraoa - te henua tagata huki manu rere - - kiore ki te huaga
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 Ca2-5 Ca2-6
kua moe ki te tai. Te heke erua tagata te henua tagata oho ki tona huaga kua oho

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:

Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26

However, we must also consider our Rogo in Ca3-25 (notice the same ordinal number, a square of 'fire'):

314 109 238 75
Ca3-25 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 Cb5-16
1 2 3 314

Here we have ordered the glyphs in pair, assuming 2 are needed for 1 day:

winter solstice
Ca3-20 Ca3-21 (72) Ca3-22 Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25
13 - 15

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:

309
Ca3-25 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 Ca14-25 Ca14-26 Ca14-27 Ca14-28
1 2 3 313 314 315 316

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:

25 49 312
Ca1-26 Ca3-25 (76) Ca14-26 (389)
50 314
364 = 14 * 26

We can therefore provisionally assign day numbers accordingly:

Ca14-12 Ca14-13 Ca14-14 Ca14-15 Ca14-16 Ca14-17
350 351 352 353 354 355
Ca14-18 Ca14-19 Ca14-20 Ca14-21 Ca14-22 Ca14-23
356 357 358 359 360 361
Ca14-24 Ca14-25 Ca14-26 Ca14-27 Ca14-28 Ca14-29
362 363 364 365 366 367

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:

Gb4-29 Gb4-30 Gb4-31 Gb4-32 Gb4-33 Gb5-1
350 351 352 353 354 355
Gb5-2 Gb5-3 Gb5-4 Gb5-5 Gb5-6 Gb5-7
356 357 358 359 360 361
Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13
362 363 364 365 366 367