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The first page from the link 'elucidated':

 

A grand vision of creation as a gradual evolution by growth ('multiplication') by the powers of 2 can be perceived in H:

dark moon sun
2 * 29 4 * 29.5 8 * 32
58 118 256
432 days (= 1296 glyphs / 3)

The end of both the full 432 day long calendar cycle and the shorter cycle of the sun is followed by the twice 29 dark nights in which everything is beginning once again. The dark (mea ke) mago at Hb9-63 stands at the very beginning of creation:

Hb9-60 Hb9-61 Hb9-62 (1122) Hb9-63 Hb9-64 Hb9-65 (1125)
day 432 = 1122 / 3 + 58 day 1

Moon will then begin to shine after a double-month in complete darkness (58 nights). Moon arrives at the beginning of side a. According to her map 118 nights is equivalent to glyph number 354 (counted from Ha1-1). Two lunar double-months with 3 glyphs per night will reach to glyph number 3 * 118 = 6 * 59 = 12 * 29.5 = 354:

348
Ha1-1 Ha1-2 Ha1-3 Ha7-8 Ha7-9 Ha7-10 (354)
354 / 3 = 118 = 4 * 29.5

The type of henua in Ha7-10 is of the kind which appears immediately after midnight according to Tahua, which probably means that a new 'day' is born also at Ha7-10:

Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44

A slight adjustment is needed for the parallel to be exact - viz. adding 1 in order to locate Ha7-10 at position 355 ('one more' than the completed 4 lunar months cycle. The last glyph on side b is, however, missing. It should be added that 355 / 5 = 71 may allude to 7-10.

Sun arrives for real on the stage at the beginning of day 119 (counted from Ha1-1). But a more meaningful number is reached by counting from the dark mago at Hb9-63:

 A sun child (tamaiti) comes after half a year:
212
Ha7-11 Ha7-12 (356) Ha7-13 Hb7-38 Hb7-39 Hb7-40 (996)
119 + 58 = 177 = 6 * 29.5 390 (winter solstice)
40
Hb7-41 Hb7-42 Hb7-43 (999) Hb9-60 Hb9-61 Hb9-62 (1122)
day 1 beyond winter solstice 42
8 * 32 = 256 is subdivided by winter solstice into 214 + 42 days.

Tamaiti at 7-13 probably alludes to the kuhane station Tama where another sun child is born. Tama is defined by 14 * 29.5 = 413, and we can count 3 * 413 - 357 (at Ha7-13) = 882 glyphs = 294 days = 42 weeks. 7 * 52 = 364 and 7 * 42 = 294, both numbers ending with 4 (cfr 354), as if to say that 4 should be the last digit. There are numerous numerical clues, too many for comfort. But 42 apparently often indicates the end, e.g. in Aa1-42 (cfr above).

Glyphs are more reliable. The twin pair in Ha7-12 is really only one individual - there is no real break in time when sun moves from the 1st half of the year to the 2nd. On the other hand, in the first night of the calendar cycle this twin is only imaginary (the outline is not closed). Neither moon nor sun is present at this initial stage, only the black mago is there:

Hb9-63 Hb9-64 Hb9-65
day 1 of the calendar cycle

42 signifies the '7th flame' of the sun, the necessary cycle for a conjunction between sun and moon. 7 * 60 = 420 and 6 * 70 = 420. Number 70 seems to be the moon equivalent of 60, a 'greater week'.

Ha7-10 can therefore be read either as 7 * 10 = 70 or as 'one more' than 70. I think I ought to explain this by means of an extra page to be reached by a link (and at the same time I will transfer the red colour to the place where the link will be inserted):

... Tama is defined by 14 * 29.5 = 413, and we can count 3 * 413 - 357 (at Ha7-13) = 882 glyphs = 294 days = 42 weeks. 7 * 52 = 364 and 7 * 42 = 294, both numbers ending with 4 (cfr 354), as if to say that 4 should be the last digit. There are numerous numerical clues, too many for comfort. But 42 apparently often indicates the end, e.g. in Aa1-42 (cfr above) ...

This is the extra page:

 

Already earlier in this dictionary (at tagata) number 42 has been discussed. 42 is for instance the number of the ancient Egyptian judges of the dead. They were twice 21 in number.

A conjunction between sun and moon necessitates a cycle of 420 nights, a year is too short. Sun must move beyond the border of his natural cycle and go down into the underworld (where there is no light). A gap in time is needed, and it can be illustrated as a gap in the carapace of a turtle:

The '7th flame' of the sun is down in the underworld. From the conjunction of sun with moon a new cycle (tamaiti) will then result. Numerically the new cycle will be 'one more' than what the old cycle covers, i.e. for instance number 43 (or 1 more than 42):

Aa1-42 Aa1-43 (1)

Ha7-10 should therefore not be interpreted as 7 * 10 = 70, because that number is the moon equivalent of the sun double-month ('flame'). 70 is a 'grander week' and 6 such 'weeks' generates 420. Instead, the reasonable interpretation is 'one more' (i.e. 1) to indicate the beginning of a new cycle.

Ha7-9 Ha7-10 (1)

Likewise, the dark mago at Hb9-63 is 'one more' than 1122 + 3 * 58 = 1296 (the total number of glyphs in the calendar cycle):

Hb9-60 Hb9-61 Hb9-62 Hb9-63 (1) Hb9-64 Hb9-65
day 42 beyond winter solstice day 1

To the 42 dark nights beyond winter solstice can be added the 58 dark nights beginning with the dark mago, which means that according to H there are 100 dark nights before the moon light (and then the sun light) will return.

The 'crack in the carapace' between winter solstice and the reborn light is 100 dark long nights.