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From glyph line Qb5 to Qb2 there are 15 lines (of a total 18). Evidence indicates that winter solstice is described in Qb5 and 'the end of sun' in Qb2. A connection exists between the two glyph lines - sun is 'born in' Qb5 and he 'dies in' Qb2.

This statement - if true - explains why we can count to 295 (or 300) days by beginning with some glyph in Qb5 and ending with some glyph in Qb2.

In addition to what has been shown earlier, it should here be mentioned that the 12th kuhane station, Hatinga Te Kohe, maybe is illustrated in *Qb5-5--6:

 
*Qb5-5 *Qb5-6 (580)
580 / 2 + 64 = 354

Vaha mea in *Qb5-5 is here twice negated. The head of the rising fish is engulfed. And its tail shows it is not the spring shark but the fat one of autumn. Before a new sun can be 'born' the old one must leave.

 

There is another vaha mea ika hiku in Qb2-46:

 
Qa6-5 Qa7-112 Qa8-46
Qb1-22 Qb2-46 (484) Qb3-17 (501) *Qb5-5 (579)

And vaha mea in Qb3-17 (notice -17) is partly similar to *Qb5-5. Its number 501 agrees with its number -17. It is the first glyph in a new season.

On the other hand it appears rather obvious that Qb2-46 is a last glyph (and one which we recognize), because the parallel H and P text continue while Q ends with Qb2-46:

Qb2-43 Qb2-44 Qb2-45 Qb2-46 (484)
305 306 = 484 / 2 + 64

48 * 4 = 192.

A problem which remains to be solved is to decide what to do with these vaha mea ika hiku glyphs. I have not yet mentioned them in the ika hiku part of the dictionary. Are they ika hiku glyphs or not?

I have suggested a kind of relationship between vaha mea and ika hiku, but that is not the same thing as equating the top part of vaha mea ika hiku (as I only provisionally have named them) with an ika hiku sign.

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Ga1-4 (5) Ga7-12 (182) Qb2-46 (484) *Qb5-5 (579) Aa6-67 (483)
vaha mea ika hiku 'vaha mea ika hiku'

These three are the only ones I have found. The parallel glyphs in H and P are vaha mea without this sign.

Aa6-67 has been commented upon several times in the dictionary. The first instance (at vaha mea) should be recollected:

 
In Tahua, we have seen, there is a specially designed tara glyph, drawn as if the top was a separate part from the rest. The top looks like a reversed version of the 'body' of the little 'bird' at the beginning of side a:
 
Aa5-17 Aa1-1
 
A specially designed vaha mea, also drawn as if the top was a separate part from the rest, is located somewhat later in the text:
 
Aa6-67 Ab4-69

Here there is a certain resemblance between the top part and the hoea glyph in Ab4-69. When classifying glyphs I judged Aa6-67 to belong both to vaha mea and to hoea. Likewise Aa1-1 became classified as both vae kore and as GD119 (a so far unnamed glyph type).

Also, Metoro said mea at Ab4-69 - whereas hoea means its opposite: instrument for tattooing (black).

Whatever Aa6-67 may signify it is fairly clear that vaha mea appears not only around winter solstice but also in summer. There must be an 'opening' (vaha) also at summer solstice, because north of the equator time is winter solstice.
I hesitate somewhat to use number arguments, yet sooner or later it must be done. Counting glyphs from the specially designed vaha mea (in Aa6-67) to the exceptional hoea (in Ab4-69) we find a powerful numerical signal:
 
499
Aa6-67 Ab4-69
0 500
 
500 may seem to be a coincidence (although for me it suggests a hundredfold rima - 'fire, fire'). Before arguing further, however, the reader has to be convinced there is no fault in my calculations:
 
a1 90 483 b1 82 313
a2 85 b2 85
a3 76 b3 77
a4 82 b4 69 80
11 351
a5 83 b5 80
a6 67 84 b6 92
17 187
a7 85 b7 84
a8 85 b8 84
sum 670 sum 664
 
In the rongorongo system of measuring glyph distances, it is not always the normal counting that counts. 500 is just to draw our attention, and the main signal to observe is 314 (100 * π), i.e. the fact that Ab4-69 is the next to 314th glyph on side b. Half a cycle is completed at Ab4-69 (because the whole cycle is computed by using 2π, or 628).
 
Aa6-67 and Ab4-69 serve as markers defining half a cycle. Therefore both of the glyphs are aberrant from the norm (in order to catch attention) ...
 
Ab4-69 is the reflection (reversal) of the preceding Ab4-68:
 

Ab4-63

Ab4-64

Ab4-65

Ab4-66

Ab4-67

Ab4-68

Ab4-69

Ab4-70

Ab4-71

Ab4-72

e haha

e mea

te ua roa

kua kake te manu

ki te tagata tui - maro

At Ab4-68 Metoro saw haha, i.e. a mouth:

Haha

1. Mouth (oral cavity, as opposed to gutu, lips). 2. To carry piggy-back. He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga.

1. To grope, to feel one's way; po haha, darkness, obscure. 2. Mouth, chops, door, entrance, window; haha pipi, small mouth; haha pipiro, foul breath; ohio haha, bit of bridle; tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. Churchill.

Together with the following mea we are very close to vaha mea, as if there was a word play (haha mea) together with a glyph play:

Aa6-67

Ab4-68--69

vaha mea

haha - mea

In Aa6-67 the (sun) fish is designed as if being swallowed by a hoea glyph. At summer solstice the opposite of mea occurs - the dark season will begin.

Ab4-68--69, half a cycle later, has mea at right. Side b on Tahua probably refers to winter. In winter there will come a time when sun (mea) returns.
The simple (not compounded by other elements) hoea glyphs in the Tahua text are 10, only 2 on side a and the rest on side b:
 

red for side a

2

Aa8-14

Aa8-33

8

Ab4-68

Ab4-69

Ab5-49

Ab5-59

Ab5-61

black for side b

Ab6-4

Ab6-11

Ab8-29

Obviously the 2 on side a are different from those on side b. Among the differences observed one is the orientation of the bottom half: on side a the opening at the bottom end is towards right, whereas on side b the opening is towards left.

One glyph is though reversed, viz. Ab4-69.

I have here located Aa6-67 to summer solstice. 500 glyphs later a reversal comes.

Later on in the dictionary, at vae kore, the number of Aa6-67 was changed from 483 (as counted from Aa1-1) to 525 (by adding 42):

 

 

The measure for 336 and 364 is 28, but other measures were also used. From Hanga Te Pau (Gb5-12) to the end of the text there are twice 53 glyphs (472 - 366 = 106), indicating a dark time (in contrast to the líght time measured by 28). Counting from glyph number 364 instead, there are twice 54 (= 108) glyphs to the end of the text. By adding 108 (a numinous number) to vae kore at Aa4-71 we can identify what in A corresponds to the end of the text in G (viz. Hanga Takaure). We can do it in two steps, first by adding 100:

   
Ab8-43 (1) Aa4-71 (364) Aa6-4 Aa6-5 Aa6-6 (464) Aa6-7

Both of the twin vae kore glyphs are reversed: Aa6-6 has its body reversed, while Aa6-5 has its head reversed. One looks back and one looks forward.

Aa6-8 Aa6-9 Aa6-10 Aa6-11 Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472)
Aa6-15 Aa6-16 Aa6-17 Aa6-18 Aa6-19 Aa6-20 Aa6-21

These strange and complex glyphs together suggest Aa6-14 marks the end of a season. We can e.g. note henua ora in Aa6-15 and moa in Aa6-16 (announcing the arrival of a new season). Probably the time is new year.
 

The Australians celebrate Christmas in December, in summer. Likewise it is possible, yes quite probable (I believe), that on Easter Island new year was celebrated in summer, at the same time as new year was celebrated in Hawaii (though north of the equator it was winter).

The new year suggested in the glyphs following Aa6-14 (Hanga Takaure) agree in general meaning with these glyphs arriving later in the same glyph line:

Aa6-64 Aa6-65 Aa6-66 Aa6-67 (525) Aa6-68 Aa6-69 Aa6-70
Aa6-71 Aa6-72 Aa6-73 Aa6-74 Aa6-75 Aa6-76

Aa6-67 has been commented at vaha mea ...

To which should be added that the rising fish in Aa6-73 presumably represents the 'new fish' (sun beyond midsummer). There are two sun cycles in a year.
 

These are the 'simple' vae kore glyphs in Tahua:

side b 4
Ab1-73 Ab3-59 Ab3-68 Ab6-8
side a red are normally oriented 10
Aa1-1 Aa1-79
Aa4-31 Aa4-33 Aa4-71 Aa5-1
Aa6-5 Aa6-6 Aa6-31 Aa6-48

The 'aversion' shown by turned backs in Aa6-5--6 is - it seems - resolved to the best in Aa6-31.

 Hanga Takaure was here imagined to be at Aa6-14 (53 glyphs earlier than Aa6-67):

Aa6-8 Aa6-9 Aa6-10 Aa6-11 Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472)
Aa6-15 Aa6-16 Aa6-17 Aa6-18 Aa6-19 Aa6-20 Aa6-21

Both 6-14 and 472 are numbers of importance. With one glyph per day 472 indicates the 16th kuhane station, i.e. Hanga Takaure. With two glyphs per day it becomes Te Pei.

Between the double single vae kore in Aa6-31 we can imagine a fish rising:

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Aa6-17 (3) Aa6-31 (17)

It is of the autumn type (it has that kind of tail). It comes as number 17 beyond Aa6-14.

Moe in Aa6-17 is number 475 (= 433 + 42), a number which can be read as 4 * 75 = 300. We can be at Te Pei (which excludes summer solstice). The shape inside moe looks like a variant of puo, and it is leaning backwards, indicating the cardinal point is at left.

At maitaki I once again counted from Aa1-1:

 

In Tahua the 8th kuhane station can be counted as being located at glyph number 8 * 29.5 * 2 = 472. Because it is such a long text 2 glyphs apparently correspond to two half-days.

Aa6-55--56 (236) Aa6-57--58 Aa6-59--60 (238)
Aa6-61--62 Aa6-63--64 (240) Aa6-65--66
Aa6-67--68 (242) Aa6-69--70 Aa6-71--72 (244)

At Aa6-56 we can count 6 * 56 = 168, and 12 glyphs (6 days) later comes a maitaki glyph, a glyph which can be characterized as being very 'imbalanced'. In G day number 472 / 2 = 236 is Gb1-6, with Gb1-12 corresponding to Aa6-67--68 ...

This model rings true. Vaha kai in Aa6-63 has the undulation at left, midsummer is in the past. 240 days is where sun will meet with his final. Adding 64 to 240 will result in 314. Vaha mea ika hiku indicates how the rising fish of autumn has no head (sun is gone). Maybe it is covered by the black cloth.

 
Aa6-67 (242) *Qb5-5 (354)
8 Te Pei 12 Hatinga Te Kohe

354 - 242 = 112 = 4 * 28 = 7 * 16.