A good example in the text of G is how at the kuhane station Hatinga Te Kohe (Gb5-1) a normal hau tea is followed by reversed one. The reversed hau tea should mean the opposite of 'white cloth' - viz. 'dark cloth':
354 (the ordinal number counted from Gb8-30) = 12 * 29.5, i.e. 12 lunar months. The measure 354 evidently means a 12-month year with 29.5 days in each month, and this year ends at Hatinga Te Kohe (where the kuhane stepped on and broke the 'bamboo staff', kohe). Te Kohe refers to a year which is 354 days long, we can conclude. (Other years existed in parallel, e.g. with durations of 360 days or 364 days.) |
