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We can compare the inverted glyphs:
The feeling is quite different. The inverted Gb1-7 may well have been drawn in order to be looked upon inverted, but in Cb11-18 the tagata part makes such impossibl - he is clearly not falling down but standing right side up. We ought to regard tagata at left in non-inverted Cb11-18 as the correct way to view him. Cb11-18 could - in contrast to Cb1-7 - be a 'twisted' glyph, with the left part non-inverted but the right part turned upside down. The pronounced midsummer peak seen in inverted Gb1-7 is absent in Cb11-18. Instead it looks like the concave top of a 'midnight henua'. Tagata has a sign formed by the arm held high towards the 'eye'. It could be a combination of vaha kai and a 'nut':
It could be a picture of the 'nut' falling down into the 'swallowing mouth'. If we regard the maro part in Cb11-18 as inverted, the midsection will be similar to these 3 henua glyphs:
Position 363 is the position of Rogo, which explains why we cannot see properly, light has gone out. This state continues first of all up to day 366, we know. Here we can see that also 368 is included (which we also have experience of). These glyphs are not far away from Ca14-26 which we have recently identified as presumably representing day 364:
We can use manu kake in Ca14-26 to define day numbers:
The Rogo state continues with Ca14-6 and Ca14-8, giving 6 + 2 = 8 black nights in all. The reversed hoea in Ca14-7 cannot give any light either. Hoea has an inverted maro string, presumably meaning the opposite of 'end of fire'. This becomes 'beginning of water'. However, this string is at left, and then the meaning will be 'the beginning of water is in the past'. There is hope that 'water' will abate. In Ca14-8 the central unit is half hidden, while the inverted maro strings are intact. And there is a break between the left maro string and the central unit. The text up to and including Ca14-8 seems to have its own day numbers, 25 days higher than what follows from manu kake in Ca14-26. Otherwise we must revise its number from 364 and back to 364 + 25 = 389. Maybe the 25 days higher day numbers continues up to and including Ca14-14 (where 14 * 14 = 196 and 25 + 352 = 377). Because the vero glyphs with bulbous bottoms could allude to Rogo:
Indeed, we can read them as variants of Rogo glyphs without heads:
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