Now to the parallels between A and H. Aa1-73 seems to have day number 181 (maybe to be understood as 72 + 9 * 12):
The glyph is a curious variant of moe. Such a glyph type ought to announce the 'dawn' of a new season. 6 months with 30 days in each could be its duration. From the 'bird' at left emerges an new one, yet he is the same. In *Ha6-58 another way of illustrating it is by way of tagata rere, with one mata at left and one at right (the 2 mata being equivalent to the 2 heads in Aa1-73). The sitting figure in *Ha6-57 has two 'hands' attatched to his back. In Ga7-5 the same type of sign is used in front:
In Tahua the sign seems to have been split up on two glyphs, with the little top hand being put in front and transformed into enormously long 'fingers':
Presumably this 'hand' is a kind of 'hakaturou' sign:
The two hands, rima (2 * 5 = 10), at the back in *Ha6-57 could mean that the 10 months of Spring Sun are in the past (6 * 57 = 342 = 18 * 19). The complex 'fingers' in Aa1-74 means something else, and they could possibly be referring to the time beyond midsummer. If we still read them as rima, we can imagine that 3 doublemonths of the sun are in the past (the tail feathers of moe in Aa1-73) and 3 'doublemonths' (extra long ones) are in front (long fingers in Aa1-74). The break in time would be illustrated by one glyph representing the past and the other representing the future. The suggested 'hakaturou' sign in Aa1-74 ought to mean a change is due, maybe to a time when we should look for pairs of glyphs. 90 - 74 = 16 and 182 + 16 / 2 = 190 (= 10 * 19) could be the last day in line Aa1. Or, if we continue to count with 1 glyph per day: 182 + 16 = 198 (= 2 * 99). Obviously the parallel between A and H continues 2 glyphs longer than Aa1-74:
Day 240 is beginning with a variant of vero, it is apparently time to 'kill' the sun king. 240 = 8 * 30 and at *Ha6-64 we can count 6 * 64 = 384 = 2 * 192 (the '2nd' season of 192 days?). Equally clear it is that the following sequence of Tahua glyphs have no parallel in H:
Aa1-80--82 seems to reflect once again what happens at midsummer. Therefore Aa1-77 could once again refer to day 177 = 3 * 59. If so, then these 14 glyphs can stand for 14 days. 184 + 14 = 198. In H we can read only 1 glyph before the parallel with Tahua (at the beginning of line Aa2) resumes:
This inoino glyph apparently is to be compared with Aa1-78 and Aa1-84, the last one of which could be at day 192. |