The first 12 glyphs on side a
of Tahua probably refer to the 12 solar months in a 360-day
year:
The 11th and 12th months are ihe tau glyphs (growing has stopped - life has gone). The 2 'cuts' across the throat of 'kuukuu' are maro according to Metoro (ihe kuukuu ma te maro). The 2 marks across henua in Hb9-17 possibly allude to the 2 dark months of the solar year:
In the Tongan dialect tukutuku means 'to sink in the sea'. In Hawaiian ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u is 'the path of the spider' (a name for the Equator). |
