4. The use of the last mauga in the calendar (= the first mauga in the text, i.e. Eb2-13) probably is to indicate where the natural year definitely ends. If we step 6 glyphs backwards, arriving at number 180, the presumed quarters will be shorter:
Probably Eb4-18 indicates the high point of summer, in which case the calendar can be used either to follow the summer (180 glyphs = days) or to follow the winter (186 glyphs = days). The tagata glyph in Eb4-18 will then agree with how it is used in Ga4-1 and in Ha6-2:
A close look at the bottom end of henua in Eb4-19 reveals that it is cut off obliquely, sloping downwards. Probably this signifies that the 2nd half is beginning here. |
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