The day of 'father light' (Jupiter), has been located in the calendar of H so as to let the reader find out that the beginning of Thursday coincides with day number 366 (Hanga Te Pau, the very last part of the solar year):
Even if the reader for some reason (e.g. worn out glyphs) would be unable to count to 366 in the text, he may be able to count the number of glyph lines and the ordinal number 40 for Hb9-40 - from which he will conclude 360. Arranged according to the days, we can see that the ariga erua glyph belongs to the new year. In another frame of reference (maybe only for the experts) we should add 64 days counted from Friday, in which case day 368 will turn out to be day 368 + 64 = 432, the last day of the calendar cycle (with Friday as day 1 of the cycle). The number of days in H is equal to the number of days in Q + 64 days. We need to investigate what the order of the planets in the week really means. A detour is necessary. |