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The second (and last) of the underpages:

 

To simplify we can reorganize the 12-glyph structure into a structure with only 8 glyphs:

*Ca14-21 *Ca14-22 *Ca14-23 *Ca14-24
*Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28

The complex *Ca14-21 has an empty space in the center, similar to that in e.g. Eb6-1:

*Ca14-21 Eb6-1

Only 2 mata are drawn in *Ca14-21, and they are at left. But at top right the next mata is on its way. The empty space in the middle probably indicates winter solstice, the time when the fire is extinguished. But at right (in front) lies the fire of the new year. The symbology is quite as in ancient Egypt with Pharaoh temporally being invisible because he has entered the sanctuary of the wolf-god (Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way'):

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The 2 mata in *Ca14-21 are larger than the twice 3 mata drawn in Eb6-1, which probably means they refer to longer time periods. The ordinal number of *Ca14-21 (from Ca1-1) is 384, which could mean that each mata represents 192 glyphs (possibly days).

Given that we count 2 glyphs per day maro in *Ca14-23 would be at the end of the last day before Rogo arrives,

*Ca14-18 *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20 *Ca14-21 (384) *Ca14-22 *Ca14-23
191 192 = 384 / 2 193
*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
194 195 196

However, an alternative (at least as probable) is to count with 1 glyph per day.

The position of being the last glyph agrees with that for maro in Ga5-15:

Ga5-15 (199) Ga5-16 (200) Ga5-17 (201)

When the maro glyph is inverted, though, it seems as if it should have a first position:

Gb1-6 Gb1-7

 

The link 'to count with 1 glyph per day' leads to:

 

If each glyph stands for one day, then *Ca14-26 cannot be counted from Ca1-1 - given that we wish to have it located as day number 14 * 26 = 364.

389 - 364 = 25 and time must be counted from Ca1-26:

Ca1-19 Ca1-20 Ca1-21 Ca1-22 Ca1-23 Ca1-24 Ca1-25
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 Ca2-5 Ca2-6

This seems to be entirely plausible. The 'head' in Ca1-26 is like a nut, the earliest point in life. And at front in Ca1-25 three 'fire fingers' are combined with a variant of 'the recycling station' (henua ora), 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 pairs, assuming 2 are needed for 1 day:

winter solstice
Ca3-20 Ca3-21 (72) Ca3-22 Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25 (76)

Rogo is the last glyph in line a3, and its day number becomes 38 if 2 glyphs are needed for 1 day. On the other hand 389 - 75 = 314:

311
Ca3-25 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 (389) *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28
1 313 314 315 316

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 better with the numbers of *Ca14-26 (where 14 * 26 = 364, a strong sign):

25 49 312
Ca1-26 Ca3-25 *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 the shortest of all such in the Mamari text. 354 = 12 * 29.5 and if we interpret this henua as a staff for ruling, then Hatinga Te Kohe (where the kuhane broke her 'bamboo') presumably is alluded to. The staff was no longer as before. The sky roof became lower, because the staff holding it up had become shorter.

And we can compare with G, where day 355 indicates darkness by way of the reversed hau tea. Day 355 in C shows a very short 'staff' in front.

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

 

Gb5-9 and Gb5-12 could be versions of Rogo (if we believe in Mamari). The pau sign in Gb5-12 could be the bulbous bottom of Rogo, and by being located at right it leans backwards:

Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13
363 364 365 366 367
*Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29

Metoro said vae kore (no legs) at a type of glyph which I have named accordingly:

Gb5-9 vae kore

I have listed seven such in G:

Ga3-3 Gb3-11 Gb3-24 Gb4-5 Gb5-29 Gb7-12 Gb7-22

Gb5-9 does not belong to my glyph type vae kore, even if we can see the resemblance with Ga3-3.

My system for classification puts Gb5-9 instead in the category tagata rere:

Ga1-7 Ga1-9 Ga7-13
Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-11 Gb5-26

I have always wondered what made Metoro say vae kore at that type of glyph, and I tried in the summary page to explain:

 

... While viri conveys a sense of darkness (and end), vae kore suggests the opposite - a sense of new light. In ancient Egypt the goddes of the horizon lifts up the morning sun towards the sky (ref. Wilkinson) in a gesture which resembles vae kore (understood as an arm):

Vae kore, which Metoro said a few times, means 'no legs', and indeed there are no legs used in lifting up a new light from the horizon ...

 

But the vae kore glyph type shows only one wing ('arm').

Maybe the vae kore glyphs are similar to honu glyphs with legs, they do not stand at solstice but are located at a time when movement has begun:

standstill moving
tagata rere Gb5-9 vae kore Ga3-3
Rogo *Ca14-25 honu Cb1-2

Gb5-9 appears to be a combination of solstice (both wings are seen) and movement (head in profile). And we know that winter solstice lies ahead. The calendar, on the other hand, has its 'solstice' 46 days earlier:

45
Gb5-9 (363) Gb6-26 (409)

363 is the number for winter solstice, I guess, because 36 is at left and 63 at right.