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TRANSLATIONS
I have postponed discussing Ab4-36 because I fear it will be a difficult task:
First we notice it is leaning forward, which is a good sign because it is toppling over, quite as expected if the day is number 300. Then there is another obvious sign - the top part (the 'cap') which presumably is on its way to become a 'fist' (the new cycle is like the top part of an hour-glass just turned around), is disproportionally big compared with the 'cup'. It is showing the reverse sign of koti in Ca3-12:
In Ca3-12 we can understand that the great one is at bottom, he has sunk to the ground. It is the summer season which has been turned upsided down and the 'cup' is the high summer sky inverted. In Ab4-36 the reverse sign should mean it is the winter sky which has been inverted. Koti cannot mean 360 (or 300) at this point in time. Sun has completed his cycle and we are back to zero. A prediction (or guess) is possible to make: Either we will find some sign of sun going down 2 * 360 glyphs or 2 * 300 glyphs beyond Ab4-36. Ab4-36 is glyph number 670 + 244 + 36 = 950 from Aa1-1:
We will first try to move forward 600 glyphs (presumably 300 days). 1334 - 950 = 384 (!) is the number of glyphs to the end of side b. Koti at Ab4-36 stands at point zero of 192 days to the end of side b:
4-38 can be contrasted with 8-83. 4 lines have been added and 83 is the reverse of 38. In a way this is enough. After half a 384-day long year the pushing up of the sky roof is finished. But we will anyhow continue our search for the glyphs 600 paces away from Ab4-36. 600 - 384 = 216 (!), equal to how many days there are on each side of H. Counting from Aa1-1 we will find number 216 to be Aa3-41:
At this point it feels necessary to repeat the summary page for ua:
But we have no firm grip on the K text. This ua is the 5th glyph in the 22nd henua period (in a total of 29 periods) and it is also the 5th glyph in line b3 (i.e. the 8th from line a1):
Possibly 142 is an allusion to 384, because 2 * 142 = 284. There are 3 'faces' for the sun and 2 for the moon. The 'eye' in front is a sign which is common to Kb3-5 and Aa3-41, and both occur in line 3:
The visual cues confirm an end and a new beginning, moe stands at the beginning of the new beginning:
A complete elbow ornament is exhibited for tagata in Aa3-40 (where 3 * 40 = 120 = 10 * 12) and a curious empty hand is lifted high. Still ua eludes us. Let us try again, this time with C, where I have listed these ua glyphs:
Cb12-2 comes towards the end of the text, and the 'eye' is hidden at left. An 'eye' in front should mean a visible one. - it is not dark. Cb2-4 has no 'eye', and ua could therefore have its proper meaning - sun has gone away and instead there is rain.
Honu (sun) has a 6-feathered maro hanging down in front. Glyph number 420 counted from Ca1-1 is the reverse of 24. Cb2-6 is very clear: At left (in the past, hidden) are the 3 'balls' of sun. Sun has 3 'faces' ('morning', 'noon', and 'afternoon'). To the right 4 + 4 = 8 feathers of light indicates moon, and an extraordinary great marama follows. Cb4-6 is both reversed (compared with Cb2-4) and has a little 'eye' at right:
It comes 7 * 7 = 49 glyphs later than Cb2-4:
Cb4-6 (as in 46) presumably announces the return of light, after 7 weeks of rain. Hoea at Cb4-20 should indicate the return of sun light (3 fingers at the top):
Counted from the beginning of side b its ordinal number is 91. Counted from Cb2-4 its number is 63 (the reverse of 36):
We are still not clear as to the nature of the 'eye' at right, is it light in general, is it the moon, or is it the sun? What seems to have been 'proven' is that the normal orientation of ua is the one in Cb2-4, not as I have depicted it in the glyph dictionary:
So light (in some form) is dispersing the night at day 300 counted from koti:
Our prediction was the opposite, viz. that the high sky roof in Ab4-36 was the embryo of a coming 300 days in the sun. Therefore, the high 'cap' is the 'old one'. It is the 'old one' who is regenerated as the new season (when sun is visiting his winter maid). In Cb4-6 we can read 46 has reached to its end, both by way of 46 and 9 and by way of 4 and 6:
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