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

Furthermore, these 14 days can be seen as the sum of 6 and 8, 6 days from 354 to 360 and 8 from 360 to 368.

Or we can add 10 to 354 in order to reach vaha kai at day 364, leaving only 4 days to the dark.

All such alternatives can rely upon 368 as being the last day of darkness.

The planets - up to and including Jupiter - dwell in this darkness.

The last page in the series 'day numbers':

 

We are now in a position to once again draw up a 'map' showing the calendar for the week according to C. This time we will insert day numbers counted from Ca1-1 (with 2 glyphs per day):

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

Several interesting features seem to emerge. Sun and Moon are a pair, not only in myth but also here. Sun is represented by 1 day and Moon by 2 days. A pair of quite different kiore-henua glyhs are flanking the central niu pair:

Ca2-23 Ca2-24 Ca2-25 Ca3-1
2 - 3

Next are Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter, representing the 3 phases of summer. Mars has 1 day, Mercury 2, and Jupiter 3 days. Venus and Saturn conclude the week by reflecting - I imagine - the pattern of  Sun and Moon.

Then follows winter solstice, beginning with day 36 counted from Ca1-1. Counted from Ca2-21 the solstice coincides with days 13 - 15.

The kiore-henua glyphs are by the pattern which I have proposed above pushed away from their positions at the end of days to become located as first glyphs of days (or rather nights). A pattern with henua at the beginning is also what we can see in the calendar of the week in H, for instance in Saturday:

Hb9-51 Hb9-52 Hb9-53 Hb9-54
Hb9-55 Hb9-56 Hb9-57 Hb9-58

The problematical Ca3-20 will accordingly be the first glyph of winter solstice. Rei at Ca3-24 represents a.m. of day 1 of the new year. Rei at Hb9-25 perhaps has a similar position, 9 * 56 = 504 = 14 * 36 and 3 * 24 = 72 = 2 * 36.

Hb9-53--55 maybe are belonging to winter solstice rather than to Saturn. The two fishes in Hb9-53 have been drawn with a sign of koti, there is an empty vertical distance between them. And then the last glyph of Saturn will be Hb9-52, an idea which gains support  from the 4 glyphs which come before Sunday:

35
Hb9-13 Hb9-14 Hb9-15 Hb9-16 Hb9-52
4 36
40

36 as the number of glyphs for the week can be interpreted as a further confirmation. 4 * 13 = 52. 13 weeks equals a quarter (91 nights) and 52 weeks a 364-day long year.

Hb9-52 has a reversed pau sign because the glyph functions as a reminder (and a reversal) of Hb9-13. Hb9-14--15 exhibit the two parts of koti - beyond pau there ought to come a sign of koti, because when the last part has gone there must be a sign of end.

Hau tea represents the new light, and then Sun, Moon, and the 5 true planets follow.

An important lesson from the above discussion is that we should avoid trying to mechanically identify days by counting them as equal to 1, 2, or 3 glyphs. There are several interwoven patterns.

 

The 40 glyphs defined by Hb9-13 and Hb9-52 are not divisible by 3, they do not refer to days. But 472 (glyphs - and days - in G) - 432 (days in H) = 40. In G these 40 days are stretching from the rising Venus up to and including the last of the curious quartet of moon figures:

 

201 37
Ga6-25 Gb5-14 (368) Gb6-23 Gb6-24 Gb6-25 Gb6-26
202 40 2
244 = 4 * 61

Basically, a dark time stretches from rau hei during 243 (= 9 * 27) days to Rogo at winter solstice. But this 'negation of light' suddenly changes with the rising fish of Venus at Gb5-14. She represents new light, but possibly only inside as yet (an internal feather sign).

If we count glyphs with Hb9-52 as number 36, then Hb9-48 will be number 32 (counted from Hb9-17):

 

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

The difference between 36 and 32 is 4 glyphs. Therefore it is also possible to count to 36 this way:

31
Hb9-13 Hb9-14 Hb9-15 Hb9-16 Hb9-48
4 32
36

The 4 glyphs Hb9-13--16 form a group. Earlier we have had focus on -14, -15, and 16, but it seems as if we should include -13:

Gb1-19 Gb1-20 Gb1-21 Gb1-22
313 314 315 316
74 314
Ca3-24 Ca3-25 (76) Ca4-1 Ca4-2
313 314 315 316

Furthermore, we can add also the 'planetary fishes' in G to the 4-fold pattern, and realize how new light must be 'kicked into action' already with Gb5-13:

Gb5-12 (366) Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16 (370)

Then number of glyphs in C is 740, which becomes 370 if divided by 2.

The pau sign is a kind of hua sign, and Rogo has this sign as his rounded bottom.

Carcase, carcass ... (dead) body of man or beast ... spherical shell or bomb ... (English Etymology)

And, of course, the last action of the sun king is do 'dig wells' - create new life by cooperation from mother earth:

Ca3-9 Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
Ca3-14 Ca3-15 Ca3-16