The following two pages can be regarded as an excursion - it is done because we have stumbled over an important part of the Tahua text. It enables us to correlate Tahua with the text in G, thereby throwing light on both texts and their structures. Other connections between Ga1-16 and crucial glyphs have been found earlier, for instance:
24 * 4 = 96 and twice 96 = 192. Furthermore, the distance from Gb1-18 to Ga1-16 is 240:
The hakaturou glyph in Gb1-18 stands in high summer, and in Aa1-64 it is turned upside down:
Gb1-18 is number 248 (counted from Gb8-30), a number we also have in Aa2-48. Gb1-14 (244) has '2 moon crescents', while in Aa1-60 there is 1 'sun fist':
The 240th glyph beyond Aa1-64 is Aa4-53, and we can try with the equation 2 glyphs per day:
Day number 150 ends with Aa4-49 (where 4 * 49 = 196). Glyph number 295 would with 1 glyph per day be equal to 10 * 29.5 days. With 2 glyphs per day it becomes p.m. of day 148. 4 days later maitaki in Aa4-53 marks a time for measurement (the straight vertical line). In the following hau tea there are 2 cracks at left. Then follows a glyph illustrating the 'birth' (hanau) of next season (where the right 'mata' is leaning downwards). Beyond half 300 days Sun is moving downwards. The 2nd pare glyph (Aa4-60, where 4 * 60 = 240) could possibly illustrate the sky of the new season - Metoro: e pare tuu ki te ragi. If we use the hint 4 * 60 = 240 as a way to read day 156, then day 236 will be at day 152. It means we would have to add 84 days (or 168 glyphs) to the numbers in the table above. If we add 168 to 304 (at Aa4-53) we will reach 472 = 16 * 29.5. |
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