2. One of the common traits in vae and haati is the 'knee joint', hatiga in Mangarevan.The knee is where the leg is 'broken in two', and it therefore can symobolize the point where one time period is ending and another beginning. The kuhane station Hatinga Te Kohe (breaking of the 'bamboo') is located at such a place. 12 * 29.5 = 354 is at Gb4-33 (if counted from the last glyph of side b), and the evident reversal (or break in time) presumably refers to Hatinga Te Kohe:
In the long text of Tahua we probably have to count 2 glyphs per day, and 2 * 354 = 708, which means we will reach Ab1-37 (if we count from the last glyph of side b):
Neither of these two text sequences is using a haati glyph to illustrate the break. But this is no important argument, because such an event can be shown in different ways (as is proven above). If we count from o te pito motu at Ab8-43 (instead of from Ab8-84) we will find Hatinga Te Kohe (708) to be located at Aa8-80, in the neighbourhood of which there are several variants of haati:
A rongorongo text probably contains several calendars defined from different points of departure, and Hatinga Te Kohe can therefore appear in more than one place in the same text. Moreover, the concept of hatinga te kohe presumably is not connected with the cycles of any special celestial 'person', as for instance is proven by the Mamari moon calendar. |
