I will now give another interpretation of the beginning of side a in Tahua, I will read the text from another perspective. Let us begin with niu in Aa1-13:
I have here used my colour chart for the planets (according to the order of the week), and Moon will then be located at Aa1-13 by force of my chart - which I have applied from Aa1-1 as Mercury (in analogy with how side a in K is beginning - cfr the initial model of the colour chart in the summary at gagana). There is a reasonable correspondence between the signs I can perceive in the glyphs and the number of days (within parenthesis above) - which arise given the assumption that each glyph corresponds to 20 days. The gap in time between vae and tagata rere in Aa1-15, for instance, can be understood as the place where the 10 months of the sun are ending (if counted as 30 days in each month). It is a Mercury day. Venus, we have learned, should be where time will begin anew, when next 'sun' is on his way. And, we know, glyph number 17 in a line is the time from which the new 'year' should be counted. In Aa1-16, therefore, the sun disc may have been used as a sign of zero. It is Jupiter's day, and indeed he is not present (in his role as a representative of Sun). The old Sun has left (vae at left in Aa1-15), and the new one has not arrived yet. The picture can be read as the Sun person upside down, with his legs in the air. The model with 20 days in a month is similar to the Mayan, where there are 18 months with 20 days in each month (and an additional extra 5-day month). However, the primary reading above seems to be 15 months with 20 days in each. Sun has no more than 10 months, and they will be 300 days if we count with 15 months à 20 days. There seems to be two 'currencies' here - one in which each month is measured as 20 days and one in which a month measures 30 days, a Moon measure respectively a Sun measure. |