If we continue in the text of H, beyond glyph 240 we have earlier found a sequence which stretches to ariki in Ha10-29:
Its day number possibly can be read as 177 (= 531 / 3) + 64 = 241 ('one more' than 240), or maybe we instead - and more to the point - should count 177 + 59 = 236 = 8 * 29½ = 4 * 59 - as if expressing that the growing phase (a 'square earth' with 4 corners) has been completed. Furthermore, 531 (Ha10-29) - 236 (Ha5-20) = 295 = 10 * 29½, i.e. 531 = 18 * 29½. Counting 10 kuhane stations beyond Te Pei we arrive at Pua Katiki: "... [the names Pua Katiki and Mauga Teatea] should be examined in connection with the 'festival' (koro, ninth month in our scheme; actually December and month of the summer solstice). Both pua katiki 'the flowers arranged like an aura (i.e., like a wreath)' and teatea ('the very light') are characteristics of the participants of the festival, especially of the children old enough to be initiated, whose skin had been lightened by keeping them secluded in caves ..." (Barthel 2) The description of Pua Katiki and Mauga Teatea (high up on Poike) hardly fits what we can read at ariki (without feathers) in Ha10-29 and the surrounding glyphs. December must come earlier. Furthermore, I think there is a wordplay involved in Pua Katiki, it could be pronounced Puaka Tiki, i.e. the 'chief of the beasts' and refer to the Spring Sun as a forceful animal. 531 = 231 + 300 suggests we should try to use triplets of glyphs to identify day number 231 - (which is equal to 236 - 5 = 64 - 59) - in order to possibly find the first day of the back side of the year (because Gb1-1 is glyph number 231). This will be done in a pair of separate pages. The text of H continues on side a, which has either 579, 648 or 666 glyphs depending on view. 579 / 3 = 193, 648 / 3 = 216, and 666 / 3 = 222. All three alternatives are possible to divide by 3:
However, at honui another possibility was discovered, viz. of 66 extra inserted days (= glyphs / 3) from ua in Ha10-33 up to and including glyph number 732 (= 2 * 366) at Hb2-33:
192 glyphs (= 3 * 64 as if alluding to day 364) are separating honu with a Rei (Ha10-35) from day number 244 (= 732 / 3 as if playing with 3 * 144 = 432). Then follows a version of, or presumably rather an allusion to, the back side of the year, beginning with day number 231 (read from 2-31 in Hb2-31). And the text continues with:
66 + 84 = 150. Side b has 648 glyphs (with no great problem in counting them). It therefore seems reasonable to accept the alternative 648 glyphs also for side a. 648 + 648 = 1296, which can be divided by 3 into 432. At honui it was also suggested that a new cycle was beginning with Hb7-29, and that in the preceding cycle those 66 extra days (from ua in Ha10-33 up to and including the complex hanau glyph in Hb2-33 - both glyphs ending with 33 and 4 lines apart) were inserted into a sequence beginning with Ha5-19:
A more natural alternative would now seem to be to begin the sequence with Ha5-25 and consider Ha5-24 as the last glyph of the preceding one. If so, then we can count days (equal to triplets of glyphs) for the new sequence as (178 - 80) + 84 = 182 (or half 364). This would leave 432 - 182 = 250 days for the rest of the text. 80 of them arrive at the beginning of side a (up to and including Ha5-24), and if we assume there is a need to add 64 days from the end of side b there will be 64 + 80 = 144 days - which happens to be equal to 432 (= 18 * 24) glyphs - at the beginning. 432 (1296) = 144 (432) + 98 (294) + 84 (252) + 106 (318), where the last term is equal to 2 * 53. We have seen 106 earlier, e.g. at hahe:
Pare in Ha10-31 will from this perspective be in the center of day number 98, which does not appear to be a very interesting number:
But 295 divided by 3 becomes 98⅓, which will be at ua in Ha10-33. And poporo in Ha10-30 (easily read as 10 * 30 = 300) has only a 'single leg' (i.e. half of such a maitaki 'ball' as in poporo at right in Ha10-32). Sun - or the 'bird' with a 'broken wing' (Rehua) - is sailing away. |
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