365 at Hanga Te Pau cannot mean days from a new year at midwinter, because we have earlier found the beginning of the 4th quarter at Gb5-1:
The journey of the sun begins at Ga1-1 and reaches its end with 6 * 59 = 354 glyphs. After resting for 10 glyphs he is completely finished (pau), because 364 = 13 * 28. This description agrees with how the kuhane of Hau Maka arrived at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Sun leaves and the dream soul enters. Manuscript E locates Hanga Te Pau indirectly to He Maro, by letting the canoe of Ira touch ground there on the first day of that month (i te raa po rae o te maro, p. 17), a fact which can be accepted only if He Maro once meant that the last month of the sun journey ended with the 3rd quarter. A calendar with 12 solar months probably is a late development, invented after the arrival of Ira and his team of explorers. |