Although our two main tagata rere glyphs have 290 glyphs between them, we have found that this measure hardly means a 290 days long dark period:
Instead, by identifying two exceptional tagata rere in the moon calendar we have been able to work out a more true structure, which I here present with measures both based on the moon (2 * 29.5 = 59) and the sun (2 * 30 = 60):
By counting double-months instead of months the differences between the lunar and sun measures will be equal to a whole number of glyphs, e.g. 3 glyphs (days) for half a year. We can see that waxing sun has been given 3 double-months, quite in agreement with how kai hands are drawn. We know that the kai sign means growing, and sun is growing during half a year up to midsummer. Autumn is indicated with the reversed kai sign at left in Ca8-12, it means waning:
The head is exceptionally big, maybe alluding to how the fire of Sun is at its maximum during high summer. (3 + 2) * 60 = 300 and (3 + 2) * 59 = 295. Vai in Ca12-14 has only a single string around the oval, sun is absent. If Sun is leaving in Ca12-13 (significantly a day of Moon, she determines when time is due), then 392 can be understood as 299 + 30 (high summer) + 63. We recognize 63 as the number of days which in G and H are used from winter solstice to the beginning of the 'front side'. In C the whole cycle seems to be documented on side a. It ought to be waxing and waning Sun which is described on side a. Sun is only one - the other half of his time he is not present here but is on the other side of the earth (visiting his winter maid). During autumn his wife (Moon) may have a male champion at her side in form of Saturn. The measure 182, from tagata rere in Ca8-12 to the end of side a, ought to have a counterbalance during the waxing season. If we count from Ca1-1 we will reach 182 at Ca7-14:
From investigations at hua we recognize Ca7-14 as the reverse of hua, viz. 'the father'. Spring sun is no longer young, he is old. His time is in the past and Moon will take his place. 3 high positioned feathers are at left and 3 low are at right in this rising 'father' fish. Those 3 low at right are lower than the 'equator' of the fish - Sun is with his winter maid. 182 + 28 + 182 = 392 = 14 * 28, is another structure, here not with 30 days in high summer but with 4 weeks instead. Or we should rather say 2 fortnights. 392 - 28 = 364 = 14 * 26. Waxing sun measures 13 * 14 = 182 days, equal to waning sun. And the 63 days at the end of the cycle are not special - they have nothing to do with counting according to the Moon. |
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