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Let us try to pinpoint the beginning of a 'global map' of the H text: 1. We will primarily use the estimate 1296 as the number of glyphs. 2. And we will primarily use 3 glyphs per day. 3. And primarily the Moon should guide us, because She measures time. 59 * 3 = 177 glyphs could therefore, possibly, be the number to add from the end of side b to the beginning of the front side (side a).
The number of glyphs in lines Hb10-Hb12 is probably 67 + 53 + 51 = 171, and from this we can find Hb9-59 (glyph number 666 - 18 + 412 + 59 = 1119) to be the glyph we should first of all be interested in:
Manu rere in Hb9-58 surely must be the last glyph of Saturday, but I will not repeat such arguments which have been presented earlier and which 'prove' it. 9 * 58 = 18 * 29 = 522 is not a bad choice for the last glyph in a cycle which probably incorporates both Sun and Moon. 29 is obviously the dark night of the month and 18 could be an expression pointing at 3 * 60 (the full measure for Spring Sun). 522 can be read as 5 (fire) together with 22 (= 7 * π) - i.e. the first 'circle' of the year is completed. The glyph number for Hb9-58 is 1119 - 1 = 1118, which is equal to 2 * 559. In P the number of glyphs on side b is 559, and therefore there should be a message embedded in this number. If we read it as 5 * 59 it is obvious what it means, viz. 10 lunar months (295 days). The following glyph, Hb9-59, will then surely be alluding to 9 * 59 = 531, which number the creator of H seems to have joined to 10 months à 29 days (once again a doubly dark measure):
This is the basic reason for adding 177 glyphs (59 days) from the end of side b to the beginning of the front side of H.
4. The other main alternative, to add 64 days (= 3 * 64 = 192 glyphs) means we have to move 5 days (15 glyphs) back in time:
1296 - 1104 = 192 glyphs, which divided by 3 gives 64 days. And 1104 / 3 = 368 days, which agrees with the cycle of Q (with 736 = 2 * 368 glyphs):
46 is an important key number in Tahua where 1334 = 29 * 46 glyphs. If we combine 46 with 8 it becomes 8 * 46 = 368. 9 * 44 = 396 and 9 * 45 = 405, which maybe could allude to a year with 400 days ending between Hb9-44 and Hb9-45. A 400-day long year is not congruent with a lunar month measuring 29½ days. It should rather be the consequence of counting only 20 days in a month, thereby to generate a 'great' such month equal to 20 * 20 = 400 days.
5. Suppose there once upon a time was a calendar with 300 days for the year. If it then was discovered that other and more technically advanced people were using a calendar with 364 days, would it not be natural to search for a way to keep the old system while anyhow incorporating the new system? The old calendar was presumably tightly knit together with the seasons and the stars, and therefore only one possibility was open - to put the extra 64 days outside the domain already occupied by the old calendar. In order to have the end of the improved calendar where the year always had ended the extra 64 days must be put before the beginning of the old calendar. The front side of the calendar could then begin where the old year always had begun and the year would end where it always had ended.
6. But maybe also 104 days could have been a measure used for adding to the beginning of the front side:
104 possibly should be regarded as the result of adding 40 to 64. In G, too, there may have been 40 days inserted between the end of one year and the next:
Evidence from the glyphs themselves are contrary though, because the rising fish in Gb5-14 is the first in a quartet:
I conclude there is no reason to assume an inserted number of 40 days in G. Therefore we should not be secure in suggesting there are 40 inserted days in H.
7. However, the distance from vaha kai in Gb5-10 to the end of side b is 472 - 364 = 108 glyphs (days). This number is important in mythology, cfr at honu, and 260 + 108 = 368. We should therefore search in H for evidence of adding 108 days from the end of side b to the front side:
The glyphs indicate that the 2nd 'circle' of the year is ending with tagata at Hb7-22 (where 7-22 alludes to the formula π = 22 / 7). But this means there are only 106 (= 2 * 53) days to the end of side b (and we can imagine 42 days have been added to 64). Number 106 has appeared earlier, for instance (cfr at haga rave) as the distance from Gb5-13 to the end of side b:
Furthermore, at viri it was established that the beginning of side a of Keiti has 7 + 99 = 106 glyphs.
8. I have, though, accepted the idea of 108 days as also documented in H. My 'proof' is the extraordinary 'eloquence' expressed by the creator of H at the end of glyph line b6 and at the beginning of line b7, which is reaching its climax in Hb7-14--16:
In 324 (= 972 / 3) we can read 3 * 24 = 72, but we also receive a confirmation that we have counted the glyph number (972) at Hb7-16 correctly: 9 * 72 = 648 (the number of glyphs on each of the sides of the tablet), and 1296 / 4 = 324. The regular solar year is 360 (= 5 * 72) days long and 288 = 4 * 72 must be added in order to reach 648. Therefore 1296 = 10 * 72 + 8 * 72 = 18 * 72 = 36 * 36 is a most elegant way to combine Sun (10 or 20) with Moon (8 or 16) into the space allotted by the piece of wood with a burnt area.
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