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On the other side of the week another type of henua (than the midnight one) is arriving:

Ca3-21 Ca3-22 Ca3-23 Ca3-24 (75) Ca3-25
tagata tuu rima ki ruga te maitaki te henua Rei hata ia tagata rogo

Metoro identified the figure in Ca3-25 as Rogo. We recognize Ca3-25 as a variant of honu vae kore, the winter solstice glyph. On Hawaii Lono is the main figure at winter solstice.

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The first koti glyph on side a of C is the 16th glyph among 24 which evidently form a calendar for the week:

Jupiter
Ca3-9 Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
Venus
Ca3-14 Ca3-15 Ca3-16
Saturn
Ca3-17 Ca3-18 Ca3-19 Ca3-20

The glyph numbers at Venus happen to agree with the day numbers earlier (at rau hei) identified around a strange glyph in G which - it can be argued - represents Venus:

Ca3-14 Ca3-15 Ca3-16
Gb1-20 (250) Gb1-21 Gb1-22
314 = 250 + 64 315 316

 

If Ca3-15 also is at day 315, then day 1 must be on side b. On side a Ca3-15 is glyph number 51 + 15 = 66, and 315 - 66 = 249.

b1 24 348 24
b2 25 324 49
b3 22 299 71
b4 23 277 94
b5 21 254 115
b6 29 233 144
b7 27 204 171
b8 29 177 200
b9 30 148 230
b10 22 118 252
b11 22 96 274
b12 25 74 299
b13 30 49 329
b14 19 19 348

Glyph number 249 counting backwards from the end of side b is Cb5-5 (249 - 233 = 16 and 21 - 16 = 5):

Cb5-1 Cb5-2 Cb5-3 Cb5-4 Cb5-5 Cb5-6
Cb5-7 Cb5-8 Cb5-9 Cb5-10 Cb5-11 Cb5-12
Cb5-13 Cb5-14 Cb5-15 Cb5-16 Cb5-17 Cb5-18

In Cb5-9 we notice one of the 3 manu kake in C, and in Cb5-16 there is a very special honu vae kore:

 
side a side b
75 316 109 238
Ca3-25 (76) Cb5-16 (502)
392 348

Cb5-16 is taller than Ca3-25, and also leaner. If they both stand at solstice, Ca3-25 is the one who should be at winter solstice.

238 + 75 = 313, which means it is possible to count to 314 from Cb5-16 to Ca3-25:

 
109 238 75 314
Cb5-16 (110) Ca3-25 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 (78)
314 315 316

Honu vae kore in Ca3-25 apparently is the beginning of growth, glyph number 314 beyond honu vae kore in Cb5-16. The triplet 314, 315, 316 defines a sequence of 314 glyphs to the end of side a. 392 = 78 + 314.

The end of side a would then, maybe, be the end of growing sun, with 75 glyphs on side a before winter solstice.

Counting from Ca4-3 up to and including Cb5-16 the distance is 314 + 110 = 424, much too long for 1 glyph = 1 day. 424 / 2 = 212 is a better measure. (392 + 348) / 2 = 370.

Day number 36 counted from Ca1-1 will fuse the last glyph in Saturday with a peculiar honu

 
Ca3-18 Ca3-19 Ca3-20 Ca3-21 (72) Ca3-22 Ca3-23
35 36 37
Ca3-24 Ca3-25 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 (78) Ca4-3 Ca4-4
38 39 40

Then follows in the first half of day 5 from winter solstice the 'making of a king' (hakaariki):

 
Ca4-5 Ca4-6 Ca4-7 Ca4-8 (84) Ca4-9 Ca4-10
41 42 43

The king possibly is depicted in Ca4-8, a variant of manu rere which exhibits as his front 'member' the same sign as in honu vae kore:

 

Applying the idea of 2 glyphs per day and counting from Ca1-1 will change our picture of the week. There are 30 glyphs describing 15 days, beginning with day number 24 (from Ca1-1) and ending with day number 38 at winter solstice:

 

Sun and Moon
Ca2-21 Ca2-22 (48) Ca2-23 Ca2-24 Ca2-25 Ca3-1
1 2 - 3
Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter
Ca3-2 Ca3-3 (54) Ca3-4 Ca3-5 Ca3-6 Ca3-7
4 5 - 6
Ca3-8 Ca3-9 (60) Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
7 - 9
Venus and  Saturn
Ca3-14 Ca3-15 (66) Ca3-16 Ca3-17 Ca3-18 Ca3-19
10 11 - 12
winter solstice
Ca3-20 Ca3-21 (72) Ca3-22 Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25
13 - 15