Side a of Mamari seems to be a promising place to begin our investigation of what tagata rere might mean:
The 8 blue glyphs are representatives of the 8 periods in the moon calendar, while Ca2-11 and Ca12-12 appear to be connected with the sun. 2 * 11 = 22 suggests a cycle has reached its end, presumably at midsummer, and 12 * 12 = 144 that the square of the sun is completed. In Ca12-12 the head is en face, probably a sign borrowed from tagata, and therefore it could mean 'fully grown'. The hetuu sign at right emerges from a string connected to the upraised arm which is formed as a sign of the moon. We can compare with the upraised arms at the beginning of the daytime calendar in A and also with the sign at right in Ka2-20:
The colours of my chart paints Ca12-12 red (as the Sun), while Ca2-11 becomes black (as Saturn):
Ca12-12 is pregnant and the sideways sitting down person could be the Moon. If Ca2-11 would have been positioned at the beginning of light, then the sitting down person ought to be Venus. With a position at midsummer it should be Mercury, and the vai sign in front could then refer to the season when Sun is absent - the season which apparently is ruled by Saturn (during a cube of 125 days). Mercury cannot become pregnant. These preliminary speculations will now be tested against such facts as the surrounding glyphs and the orders of number from the larger pictures of the text. See the pages which are reached by these links - Ca2-11 respectively Ca12-12. |
