Twin glyphs indicate we are entering the 2nd phase of the cycle and 168 will then, presumably, be thought of as 6 * 28 (half a year with light delivered from Moon). Number 10 (of the glyph lines) indicates Sun has left, see for instance the twin tamaiti glyphs (Ha10-5--6) without mata:
When the glyph number reaches 500 a division by 3 results in 167, which will allude to 231 if we add 64 (or to 531 if we add 364). If we instead count by the Moon we have to wait 5 more days:
The very special atariki in Ha10-14 agrees with the other signs which indicate 'darkness'. And when we continue we can see that also ariki (without 'feathers') in Ha10-29 is a 'twin glyph':
In Ha10-2 we recognize a variant of the glyph type which we earlier identified as a sign of 'the primal close embrace' (cfr at vaero):
A sky without light (the central ragi sign in Aa2-31), where 231 (from 2-31) indicates the dark 2nd season has once again arrived (because 231 + 64 = 295 = 10 * 29.5). Apparently it is not the Spring Sun, though, but the Nuku (Autumn) who has left. The number pair 2-30 at nuku presumably alludes to the number of glyphs defined to be on the front side of the G tablet, and the day number can be counted as 120 / 3 + 59 = 99. In contrast there is in Ha10-2 a henua ('earth bathing in sun light') which is 'embraced' (covered by a black cloth), and if we search for a glyph which could correspond to Ab8-30 we can guess it might be the pair Ha12-1--2, because of the design of the parallel glyphs Pb1-22 and Qb2-43:
The day number at Ha10-2 could be 504 / 3 + 59 = 168 + 59 = 227, or it could be 168 + 64 = 232 (or it could be 168, or something else). We cannot know for sure. However the alternative 232 can be read as 230 + 2, where 2 agrees with the number of the glyph in line Ha10 (which probably indicates the beginning of the back side of the year):
The design and the numbers (10 * 2 = 20 and 50 * 4 = 200) suggest the time of the end of Spring Sun. But if we count distances we should be on more secure ground:
The distance between the 'embracing' signs is short, only 123 / 3 = 41 days ('one more' than 40 - as if alluding to some concept involving 40 - cfr 'one more' than 40 * 29 in Tahua, and at Aa2-30 we can also count to 40). 123 is similar to 12-3, and we have encountered 123 earlier, e.g. at kara etahi:
The glyph number at Ha12-1 is 628 which surely ought to represent 6 * 28 = 168, a sign of Moon. At manu kake the following interpretation was suggested for the beginning of line Ha12:
The measure 123 at kara etahi (the bird with only one wing) could symbolize how from a 'singular' beginning there is a separation into 'two', which then of course must also create 'three' in order to enable counting of the separating part: 'From One comes Two, and from Two comes Three. From Three everything else will then be generated.' Cfr at vaero. The bird with only one wing probably is Spring Sun. The Maori said Rehua (Antares, Ana-mua, the 'entrance pillar' of Tahiti) 'cooks' (ripens) all fruit, because it inaugurated summer when it rose in the morning sky. In Ha12-7 it is the left wing which is missing, maybe indicating how summer is in the past. |
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