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The structure of the text in Q seems to demand of ariga erua
glyphs to have 'eyes', excepting at the end of the text:
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Qa2-113 |
Qb3-11 |
Qb3-13 |
Qb5-112 |
Qb5-123 |
Qb7-115 |
Perhaps side a and the major part
of side b describes 'the front part' of the year, when sun is shining
and everything is growing nicely. That could explain the
distribution of the eyes - such are useless in the dark.
The change from the 'front'
('face', ariga) to the 'back' (tu'a) side, evidently
occurs between Qb5-112 and Qb5-123:
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Qb5-112 |
Qb5-113 |
Qb5-114 |
Qb5-115 |
Qb5-116 |
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Qb5-117 |
Qb5-118 |
Qb5-119 |
Qb5-120 |
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Qb5-121 |
Qb5-122 |
Qb5-123 |
The pattern of the glyphs suggests
the number of glyphs in each 'sentence' is diminishing (5, 4, 3), as
if time was ebbing out. The pair of 'recycling stations' (henua
ora in Qb5-114 and Qb5-123) and vae (Qb5-121) also say
so. Honu without legs at right in Qb5-117 is of the type
which in G is used to mark the location of winter solstice:
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Qb5-117 |
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