Now let us return to Tahua. To get a grip on the structure of the text (in order to be able to locate where the 3 hahe glyphs have their proper environments) it is necessary to begin at the beginning, where the new fire is ignited (cfr at kava). This happens 53 glyphs before the end of side a:
The viri glyphs obviously define the basic structure of the text, from the first viri at Ab1-1 (smaller that the other viri glyphs) to the last viri at Aa8-26 (which is cut off at the top end). In Keiti, we have seen, there are 106 (= 2 * 53) + 522 = 628 glyphs. There is a kind of basic resemblance between the 20 * 29 = 580 first glyphs in Tahua and the 200 * 3.14 = 628 glyphs of Keiti. 6 * 28 = 168 and 5 * 80 = 400. Moreover, 5 complete Venus cycles amount to 2,920 (= 8 * 365) days, which we quickly will connect with 20 * 29 (because 20 * 29 = 29 * 20). Although 20 * 29 = 580 and the Venus cycle is 2,920 / 5 = 584 days the difference of 4 days is no great obstacle. After all there are 4 quarters in a year and 4 days must be added to 4 * 90 in order to reach 364. By the way, 522 = half 1044 (the ordinal number of Hb9-53 counted from Ha1-1). We have learned from other texts that there should be 64 days (= 364 - 300) added at the beginning of the 'front side'. In Tahua we should therefore, reasonably, find 64 days at the end of side a (rather than those 2 * 29 above). This idea must be investigated. |