It is reasonable to count from winter solstice if ariki is related to the path of the sun, while tamaiti instead apparently is calibrated after the moon. Our featherless ariki is at the end of the 4th month from winter solstice if we cound with 29 nights per month:
And if we then change 'currency' from dark months (29) to more normal months (31) we will find a beautiful balance with the feathered ariki in Ga7-6 at day number 240 from winter solstice. Also ariki in Ga6-3 can be found a place in the map, 8 * 26 is 32 less than 8 * 30:
And, we can imagine another pattern too, viz. that honu in Gb6-26 relates to the featherless ariki in Ga2-21, while the feathered ariki in Ga6-3 and Ga7-6 in a similar way relate to the strange Ga2-25. The rounded 'body' in Ga2-25 resembles that in Gb6-26. Yes, we can go even farther, and search for day 360:
The triplet of 118 (= 4 * 29.5) is a result of the pattern with 120 days (given that we show both the first and last glyphs in a period). One feathered ariki remains to explain:
135 - 52 (at Ga2-21) = 83, and 116 + 83 = 199, which means the fat honu in Ga5-25 will be number 200. Darkness is increasing it says in Ga5-27. When waning is beginning there should be a fat 'person', and here he is in day 200. But his rounded figure can also allude to Gb6-26 and Ga2-25. We have now investigated all but three of the ariki glyphs in G:
These we leave until later speculations. We can therefore conclude here by drawing attention to the top left limb in Ga2-21 and the top right limb in Ga7-6, we can guess the meaning - Ga2-21 is concluding the first 4 months and Ga7-6 is concluding the second group of 4 months. Together they define the end of the first two tertials (from winter solstice). 2 * 21 = 42 = 7 * 6. |
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