It remains to look again at the night calendar. We must eliminate Aa1-46--48 because they evidently belong to the day. Only 9 glyphs are 'left' in an ordered group 2, 3, 4:
The power of darkness seems to be gradually increasing from the rather slim pair Aa1-37--38, and judging by how broad the toa glyphs have been drawn. But Aa1-41 (the 5th glyph) is special in suddenly being thin. Metoro noticed it and said e tauru papagete (withouth mentioning toa). Discounting Aa1-41 there are 2 + 2 + 4 = 8 glyphs in the 'night', the same number as the number of periods in the Mamari moon calendar. At Aa1-43 Metoro said raaraa presumably alluding to the sun god Raá. But there is a Tahitian word toraaraa which means 'to raise up'. |
