My imagination has found a Mermaid's Purse, the egg case of a shark, at the center of ika hiku glyphs:
There is evidence of a connection between shark glyphs (vaha mea, mago) and ika hiku glyphs. For instance are there 6 lunar months from vaha mea in Ga1-4 to ika hiku in Ga7-12.
Studies of the G and Q texts suggest ika hiku glyphs appear beyond the spring sun 'half year', e.g.:
The '2nd half year' is ruled by the moon, and ika hiku tend to come in pairs (in the same way as moon has two 'faces'). Ika hiku in Ga7-27 is day number 197 counted from Gb8-30. In Q a vaha mea shark has a position counted from Qa1-1 equal to the lunar station of Te Pou (Sirius), which generates day number 197:
Possibly there was a 'shark year' based on 2 * 197 = 394 days:
394 - 266 = 2 * 64. In some complicated way number 64 has a key role in the number system of rongorongo. |