The Mamari moon calendar offers a natural point of departure for investigating what use the rongorongo writers had for GD19 type of glyphs:
Only one haś glyph is found in the calendar, viz. Ca7-15. The number of feather marks are also 15, a number which indicates that the 'season' of full moon has arrived. In Ca7-16 the bulging shape at right depicts the form of the sun (though yet only partly visible), because it is the sun which makes the full moon beautiful. The name of the night is Otua (= Atua, God) and the idea presumably is that the gods are assembling, like birds coming down from the sky. |
