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We can begin by showing the whole parallel:
The hahe glyph type (Aa3-9, Ab2-36) is unusual and we will therefore save the main part of this discussion to that 'chapter', and instead here concentrate on manu kake. Aa3-10 is fairly normal, with a raised 'future' wing and old birds both at left and right, none of them has a 'ghostly' character. The bird at right seems to be somewhat older (a more curved beak), the bird at left somewhat more well fed. 3-10 probably indicates a solar period (30 or 300 days). Ab2-37 has undulating wings, the wing tip at right ending in a sign which we do not yet understand. Its body is short, maybe meaning winter when the sky roof is low. Although its neck appears to be long, compensating the short body stature, the general impression is that the glyph is 'broad'. 2-37 does not say anything, but that probably is because 2-36 has been destined for the preceding hahe glyph. 2-36 suggests on one hand twice 36 (which we who are born in Western Culture maybe identifies as two years), on the other hand 236 (= 8 * 29.5). The Mamari moon calendar has 2 * 36 = 72 glyphs, and there - we can guess - it means the two 'faces' of the moon, waxing and waning. Following this lead we can suspect 2-36 to indicate that a pair of cycles have come to an end. And then we can guess that 236 is also meant to indicate 2 * 118 - that two cycles each with 4 months à 29.5 nights have ended. Manu kake can then be the first glyph in a new 'year'. The curios 'heads' in Ab2-37 could allude to fists, no light yet released (but soon). In Aa3-10 an important sign is the 'birth' at the top (the location of the sun). The 'spreading out' in hau tea (Aa3-15) is also a sign of the sun (while, on the other hand, ragi in Ab2-40 has a moon crescent). Let us now count:
118 says the moon measure 29.5 has been used on side b. On side a 275 = 11 * 25 could allude to the idea of 11 as 1 more than the full measure for the sun (10) - a way to indicate the birth of a new sun. The word 'eleven' means 'one left over after having counted to ten'. The internal parallel suggests we should find a meaningful distance between these two manu kake glyphs. 395 + 118 = 513 or one more than 8 * 64. Thinking in terms of days (with 2 glyphs per day), it is 8 * 32 = 256 which presumably is our number. Using it we once more encounter 395:
Although we possibly should consider 395 to be just a joke. We ought to add 1 day (Ab2-39--40) to reach the end of the parallel, and 395 + 1 = 396 = 11 * 36 is a more meaningful number. One more than 10 times 36 indicates a new season has been born. 395 glyphs from Aa2-10 to the end of side a should likewise be changed into 395 - 5 = 390 = 13 * 30, in a way the same message - one more than 12 * 30 = 360. Both our manu kake glyphs indicate newborn years. |
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