One more matter needs clearing up. The special glyph at the beginning of the solar cycle, Ha1-27, can possibly be read as a fraction (⅓). This glyph type appears in more places, for instance does it seem to serve a similar function at Ha7-34:
The glyph preceding Ha1-27 is mago at Ha1-26, and counting from Ha1-1 with 3 glyphs per day Ha7-34 will fill up so that day number 126 ends there - 126 in Ha1-26 and also in day number 126. Ha7-33 has at right a tahana sign, which we have discussed earlier:
We are now in a position to recount and use the number of days from the dark mago (Hb9-63):
Twice 192 (as in the number of glyphs in K) is equal to 384, maybe a kind of sign that the season is changing. 192 / 3 = 64 and 384 / 3 = 128 = 4 * 32. A reversed tapa mea in Ha7-39 indicates spring sun has gone. A new season is born - shown as a little hau tea at right - significantly without 'eyes'. Beyond midsummer the sun will return the water he has 'sucked up' in spring and a deluge of rain will pour down (cfr Ha7-38), no fires can thrive at that time. Indeed a 'year' is ending, it is the first half-year. In Ha7-36 we can count 7 * 36 = 12 * 21, where 12 * 21 in a way symbolizes the mirror world where waxing sun (1) is reflected as a waning (2). Also, 7 refers to waxing sun and 6 to waning sun. 7 * 7 = 49 is followed by 6 * 6 = 36. In Ha7-35 vaha kai indicates the 'mouth' by which spring sun is 'swallowed' in the west, quite similar to vaha kai at day 364 in G:
In Ha7-35 we can count 7 * 35 = 5 ('fire') * 7 * 7, i.e. maybe an allusion to the 'square of spring' being completed. In Gb5-12 the day number 366 can be 'reconstructed' into 36 * 6 = 216 = 648 / 3, demonstrating how the number of glyphs in H (648 on each side) can refer to a year with 366 days. 58 (dark days at the beginning of the calendar cycle) + 128 = 186, half a year, and 180 days lie ahead to reach Hanga Te Pau in day 366. |
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