It seems clear that vaero glyphs indeed can be imagined as illustrating 'tails'. Manu kake in Ga4-21 stands at the beginning of the last part of the year:
Counted by the moon (from tamaiti in Gb7-3) manu kake is located as day 100. If we add 64 to 104 it becomes 168:
Using the text of A we can then try to assemble a similar structure:
Day 64 has a vae glyph in p.m. and the preceding maitaki also agrees with the idea of a year ending. Vae is number -54 which could allude to the 54 last glyphs on side b. If so, then a further 20 glyphs (corresponding to Ab8-11--30) will coincide beautifully with the demise of sun according to the daylight calendar:
This correlation cannot be investigated further at the moment, but the parallel explains for instance the triangular form of hetuu in Aa1-32 - it indicates winter solstice I guess. Day 65 has a nuku in a.m. and possibly we can count the length of its season as 100 days:
Here I have used the glyphs of G at the end. In a separate page is illustrated what happens if we instead continue with A. Counted by the moon day number 166 at Ga4-18 will be day 161. |