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Are there any 'atariki' glyphs in H? Four of the 16 ariki glyphs are prime candidates, but there are also three peculiar variants (Hb7-15, Hb7-49, and Hb7-50) which all appear around winter solstice:

Ha2-36 Ha2-41 Ha3-51 Ha7-24 Ha7-40 Ha7-45
Ha8-19 Ha10-14 Ha10-23 Ha10-29
Hb3-27 Hb7-15 Hb7-49 Hb7-50 Hb10-57 Hb12-34

The first of the atariki glyphs, Ha2-36, is interesting, because by way of its numbers we immediately should think: the 2nd 36(0) cycle comes to its end here. Maybe old sun ends with Ha2-36. We should look closer.

Ha3-51 and Ha7-40 both appear to be connected with tahana glyphs, and we need to investigate this relationship in a separate page:

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Ha3-39 Ha3-45 Ha3-51 Ha7-33 Ha7-40

The peculiar Ha10-14 is also worth a separate page.

 

 We need the text of Mamari, too. It is not enough with G and H. Therefore I looked for 'atariki' glyphs there:

Ca3-15 Ca9-3 Cb1-16 Cb5-11 Cb5-20 Cb5-21
Cb8-12 Cb11-2 Cb11-11 Cb12-16 Cb12-24 Cb13-1
 
Cb13-7 Cb13-12 Cb14-5

Of the 15 ariki glyphs only 2 are on side a, which indicates that side a is 'side b' and side b is 'side a'. In the texts of G and H side a means the sunny side and side b the shadowy side. In C it seems to the reverse. The continuity from the end of side a to the beginning of side b is, however, evident:

Ca14-212 Ca14-213 Ca14-214
Ca14-215 Ca14-216 Ca14-217
Ca14-218 Ca14-219 Ca14-220
Ca14-221 Ca14-222 Ca14-223
Cb1-1 Cb1-2 Cb1-3

The 'midnight henua' in Cb1-1 could very well be a clear sign that a new sun is being born here. It may correspond to Ha1-6:

Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
Ha1-1 Ha1-2 Ha1-3 Ha1-4 Ha1-5 Ha1-6 Ha1-7

Henua ora in Ca1-3 is quite different from henua ora in Ha1-4. Hau tea in Ca1-4 is of the spreading out sun light type, whereas the slender hau tea in Ha1-5 is indicating moon, we can see this also from the two dangling balls. In Ca1-4 there is only one such, because the one at bottom is missing - a sign of sun who is present only half of the year.

Ragi in Ca1-1 carries no sign of the moon. Instead the imaginary marama and the dark ragi is the same entity. This is in stark contrast to ragi in Ha1-2.

It is remarkable to find the same structure used in two quite different circumstances.

In Ca1-6 an imaginary henua (no longer present) is at left, and in front lies mea ke (the other 'dawn'). Curiously Ha1-7 also has mea ke in front, but possibly the bottom half negates mea ke. It somewhat resembles the triplet of hoea where the year turns around:

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Hb7-38 (994) Hb7-39 Hb7-40 Hb9-51 Hb9-52 Hb9-53
332 + 60 = 392 432
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Hb9-57 (1117) Hb9-58 Hb9-59 Hb9-60 Hb9-61 Hb9-62 (1122)
1 2
56 ... ...
Hb9-63 Hb9-64 Hb9-65 Hb12-49 *Hb12-50 *Hb12-51 (1296)
3 60

Mago mea ke has only 2 wedges, while in Hb9-59 and Hb9-61 there are 3. I think this sign unites mago mea ke with Ha1-7:

Ha1-1 Ha1-2 Ha1-3 Ha1-4 Ha1-5 Ha1-6
61 62
Ha1-7 Ha1-8 Ha1-9 Ha1-10 Ha1-11 Ha1-12
63 64
Ha1-13 Ha1-14 Ha1-15 Ha1-16 Ha1-17 Ha1-18
65 66
Ha1-19 Ha1-20 Ha1-21 Ha1-22 Ha1-23 Ha1-24
67 68

Having established with a fairly high degree of probability that side a of Marama has been mislabelled and that the true side a is what is called side b, we can proceed and look at Cb12-16.

Cb12-5 Cb12-6 Cb12-7 Cb12-8 Cb12-9 Cb12-10 (284)
Cb12-11 Cb12-12 Cb12-13 Cb12-14 Cb12-15 Cb12-16 (290)
Cb12-17 Cb12-18 Cb12-19 Cb12-20 (294)

It has ordinal number 290 counted from Cb1-1. If we count from Ca1-1 we reach 392 + 290 = 682 = 22 * 31. And 12 * 16 = 192.

Atariki in Cb12-16 stands at a dark day and also a final day, a Rei is following.

A little tao comes in Cb12-20. The preceding tapa mea leans forward, which I associate with the sun, and it has 3 + 5 = 8 feather signs.

In Cb12-10 there is a mago mea ke, and the order between it, atariki and tao is as should be expected. I have decided to name the glyph type atariki and to add it to the glyph dictionary.