6. Counting forward beyond Eb5-11 we need 26 glyphs to reach the end:
26 is an interesting number. If we take the ordinal number 124 for Eb5-11 (counted from the beginning of the 1st period) and deduct the glyphs of the 1st period (which may be regarded as referring to the old year) we have 104 left, i.e., Eb5-11 could be read as the 104th glyph. 104 = 4 * 26. This part of the calendar (the 'moon mauga' part) can be used as 10 periods with 13 glyphs in each period (or as 13 periods with 10 glyphs in each), given that we use only the glyphs from the beginning of period 2 and up to Eb6-2:
With 10 periods Eb5-11 could mark the end of the 8th period, and a mauga at that point seems reasonable - 8 is the number of perfection. The Mamari moon calendar has 8 periods and the moon crescent in Eb5-11 may be an allusion to that fact. |
