The 1st period in the G calendar (and in the parallel K calendar) confirms how niu should stand at the beginning of the 2nd quarter:
The number of glyphs and the details vary to a rather great extent between the texts, but that should not worry us - it is typical of parallel rongorongo texts. The writers allowed themselves liberty not only as regards how the glyphs were designed but also in what messages to deliver. Redmarked are significant similarities, which - together with earlier findings regarding the calendrical identity of period 1 in G with period 7 in E - makes the parallel between the cited sequences of glyphs definite. The ordinal numbers of the three niu examples (29, 16, 21) are also in a way 'parallel'. 29 indicates the fallow time between the last moonlit night (28) and the first (1 as in Ga3-1) moonlit light of next month, while 16 and 21 indicate other cardinal points (in the cycles of moon respectively sun). |