Suppose ika hiku glyphs really are depicting shark egg cases. Aside from their shape there is evidence in form of the vaha mea type of open gap:
There are 6 lunar months from vaha mea in Ga1-4 to ika hiku in Ga7-12. The 'front side' (my own term and concept) is not beginning with vaha mea in Ga1-4, which would have been a natural choice because the glyph probably illustrates how the rising spring sun brings red (mea) dawn light into the previous gloomy winter sky. Instead, the beginning is with Gb8-30, which causes the day number for ika hiku to be 182 instead of 177 + 1. Gb8-30 is necessarily the beginning of the lunar month count, because 1 extra day is needed in order to create a calendar with 472 (= 16 * 29.5) days. But vaha mea could have been at Gb8-30 (instead of puo). Probably vaha mea was located at Ga1-4 in order to assign day number 182 to ika hiku. Half a year (364 / 2) from the opening of spring ika hiku in Ga7-12 marks its end. |
