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Next page (with underpage) from 'day numbers':

 

There are 740 glyphs in C, which could indicate we should count with 2 glyphs for each day. If we assume 2 glyphs per day and count from Ca1-1, we will discover that what we have read as the last glyph of Saturday (Ca3-20) appears not to belong there, at the end of the week. It may instead be the 1st glyph in a group of 10:

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

Honu in Ca3-21, at the end of day 36, has 'legs' in contrast to Rogo in Ca3-25. The end of the calendar of the week merges with the end of the year.

In day 42 the 3 tagata (who is only one) could be 'making a king' (hakaariki as Metoro explained it):

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

The unusual manu rere in Ca4-8 maybe could be such a 'king', he has the same type of strange 'member in front' as the Rogo 'caught in strings' - a haati sign of leaving:

   
Ca3-25 Ca4-8 Cb5-16

Metoro commented Ca4-8 with manu (without the normally following rere), i.e. he underlined it was an immobile 'bird'. Dead birds do not move, but their carcasses will soon teem with life.

 

 

In H we have seen how Friday evidently is the 1st day of the new cycle:

glyph numbers and days are counted from Ha1-4
Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42 (1099) Hb9-43 Hb9-44
366 = 1098 / 3 367
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47 Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50
368 day 1

 

368 = 432 - 64. Counting from Ha1-4 implies there are 63 days at the end of side b and 1 day at the beginning of side a, maybe a method to make the reader realize there is no end of time at the end of side b.

I have tried to explain 46 as the difference between 400 and 354, the time beyond the full measure of 12 lunar months to the end of the 'square of earth'. 46 will then carry the meaning of 'beyond light', i.e. a barren Y-time waiting for next birth of light at winter solstice.

64 can be understood as 46 reversed. From winter solstice there is a time of light, a time of 'leaf' instead of a time of 'straw'.

400 - 368 = 32, half 64. Next half could be 432 - 400. From this follows that indeed Friday is the first day of new light.

I will add these thoughts at the end of the page:

368 = 432 (= 1296 / 3) - 64. Counting from Ha1-4 implies there are 63 days at the end of side b and 1 day at the beginning of side a, maybe a method to make the reader realize time does not end at the end of side b.

46 can be explained as the difference between 400 and 354, the time beyond the full measure of 12 lunar months to the end of the 'square of earth'. 46 will therefore carry the meaning of 'beyond light', i.e. a barren Y-time waiting for next birth of light at winter solstice.

64 can be seen as 46 reversed. Glyphs which are reversed mean the opposite of the normally oriented ones, and possibly reversed numbers will also mean the opposite. From winter solstice there is a time of light, a time of 'leaf' instead of a time of 'straw'.

400 - 368 = 32, half 64. Next half will be 432 - 400. From this it follows that indeed Friday is the first day of new light.

But then only 368 - 354 = 14 days remain of those 46 in the dark.