We are now in a position to understand why there are no koti glyphs in G. The reason is that the text primarily describes time from a lunar perspective. Gb1-6 has a position equal to half the cycle, 236 = 8 * 29.5 = 472 / 2:
If sun had been the topic, then Gb1-6 would instead have been a koti glyph, I suggest. In other words, koti should not be used when the calendar is governed by the moon. Furthermore, I guess koti should only be used when referring to the sun. For example seems Hb3-6 to indicate a break in time caused by some other measurement:
3-6 is not necessarily connected with sun, as the Mamari moon calendar proves (with twice 36 glyphs). 753 is the ordinal number counted from Ha1-1, but presumably we should count from Ha1-4, in which case the day becomes number 250. It is clear that Hb3-6 is the last glyph, not the first of something new, because the 1296 glyphs in H will be found divided in two parts with Hb3-6 as the last glyph of the first part:
No regular koti glyph appear among the 354 glyphs of the second part, none refers to the sun. Mercury and Venus are not the sun:
The division of the glyphs in H in two parts at Hb3-6 is not the only one to keep in mind, we have earlier found another such:
64 days are here 63 + 1, maybe to inform the reader about 36 (or 360) being reversed at the end of side b, and that a new one (1) will succeed. We can speculate that 8 times 36 (368) indicates the perfect (8) cycle of the sun (36), and that these 368 days end with manu rere in Thursday (the day of 'Jupiter', the last 'garment' of sun). 2 more months are needed in the calendar, in order to reach 8 + 2 = 10. These can be expressed by 63, reversed 36, with 1 added. 1296 / 3 = 432 days are covered by the H text. 432 - 368 = 2 * 32 = 64. The beginning comes immediately beyond the end of 'Jupiter'. |
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