Our point of departure for this investigation is the fact that the last three toa glyphs in the Tahua night calendar are shorter than the other:
Toa in Aa1-47--48 are bulging slightly to the right, but in Aa1-46 the bulge is at left and the 'person' in Aa1-46 is looking back, which I interpret as a sign for the last glyph in a sequence. Aa1-47--48 therefore should stand at the beginning of a new sequence of glyhps, a new period. It presumably means that the new day takes its beginning already with Aa1-47, not with the first glyph of the daylight calendar. |