The viri
glyph type is correlated with number 29, which refers to the
29th night of the moon, when she no longer is visible after
having shone for 28 nights. Viri is
also correlated with major cardinal points, especially with winter
solstice and the 'navel' (pito) - presumably because
those are dark times.
With viri
glyphs defining the 'border lines' in the rongorongo
texts, where one season terminates and the next begins, they are
very important for translating the texts.
The word viri
has a fundamental meaning of 'going around' and when a cycle is
finished it can be expressed by a viri glyph. A
rongorongo text often has more than one viri glyph
because it contains more than one cycle, e.g. one for each half
year.
The total number
of glyphs in a text may be expressed by multiples of 29, for
instance in Tahua where the 1334 glyphs can be expressed
as 46 * 29 (divided in sections by 4 viri glyphs):
In G viri
glyphs with added signs (Ga1-26 and Gb1-6) are used in a similar
pattern:
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Excursion:
An attempt to use the knowledge gained in order to define the meanings of three viri glyphs in the text of Large St Petersburg Tablet (P). |