There seems to be no end to what the creative minds of those who painstakingly carved the rongorongo texts were able to figure out. But my own imagination can also play tricks on me. It is difficult to know which is which: The missing pare, so to say, in the Q text could have been *Qa9-46 if there had been room enough at the end of line Qa9. Maybe, though, it is Qa9-43 which corresponds to pare in Pa10-1:
Numbers are not arbitrary and they were used for clues. A haati sign (cfr Qa9-43) probably means 'going away', which we can imagine also the fading shape of pare in Pa10-1 is illustrating. Pa10-1 could have been Pa9-43 if there had been room enough at the end of line Pa9. We can therefore regard haati as a sign chosen (for some so far unknown reason) by the creator of Q instead of a fading pare. Neither H nor P has any haati at this place. The day distance between pare and haati:
Haati in Qa9-43 is glyph number 385 counted from *Qa1-1. Its number has been chosen (of that I am quite sure) from counting 13 * 29.5 = 383½. Beyond Qa9-42 (384) the old Sun year (as measured by the moon) has gone away. Which explains haati. If we instead count with 2 glyphs per day and then add 64 days, *Qa2-40--41 will be in day 64 / 2 + 64 = 96, which - by the way - is a good number for visualizing the turning around of Sun at a solstice. 9 upside down becomes 6, yet 96 remains 96 also after the turn. After Sun has changed his direction at a solstice he is no different. He has a single face, not 2 as the Moon. Qa9-41--42 will represent day number 384 / 2 + 64 = 192 + 64 = 4 * 64 = 256 (= 96 + 160). 256 could signify the last day of 8 * 32 for the Sun. And 160 (= 256 - 96) can be read as 8 * 20, i.e. 8 months in which only 20 nights per month are counted. From this perspective 96 will be equal to 8 * 12. There are 16 kuhane stations in 472 days, presumably half of them (8) for each 'face' of Moon (waxing respectively waning). 256 = 8 * 32 can serve as a representation of the season of waxing. 256 is also equal to 16 * 16, which should be considered as an alternative reading, because there are 320 / 2 = 160 days between pare and haati. Here 96 will be 6 * 16, as if it was the beginning of the sequence 6, 16, 26, 36, and 46, which also describes increase (in 5 steps). Numerical evidence can thus be interpreted to say for instance that pare in *Qa2-40 identifies the end of winter and the return of Sun in spring and that haati identifies the first day after Sun has left for his winter maid. The surrounding glyphs must however be considered, before we can make any proper judgment of the meaning of the text and pare in *Qa2-40. |
