5. Before writing was invented everything had to be commited to memory. Strings of words are more easy to remember than isolated ones. Therefore, I think, the Polynesians were fond of lists. Lists of e.g. birds could be used to memorize other things, such as the order and events connected with the different months. We should not underestimate the potentiality of such a method:

"The ollave in ancient Ireland had to be master of one hundred and fifty Oghams, or verbal ciphers, which allowed him to converse with his fellow-poets over the heads of unlearned bystanders; to be able to repeat at a moment's notice any one of three hundred and fifty long traditional histories and romances, together with the incidental poems they contained, with appropriate harp accompaniment; to have memorized an immense number of other poems of different sorts; to be learned in philosophy; to be a doctor of civil law; to understand the history of modern, middle and ancient Irish with the derivations and changes of meaning of every word; to be skilled in music, augury, divination, medicine, mathematics, geography, universal history, astronomy, rhetoric and foreign languages; and to be able to extemporize poetry in fifty or more complicated metres.

That anyone at all should have been able to qualify as an ollave is surprising; yet families of ollaves tended to intermarry; and among the Maoris of New Zealand where a curiously similar system prevailed, the capacity of the ollave to memorize, comprehend, elucidate and extemporate staggered Governer Grey and other early British observers." (The White Goddess)

Manuscript E ought to reflect some of the ollave 'cosmos'. Even more so should the rongorongo texts be of this nature, a great web of interconnected names and ideas. My glyph dictionary is meant to be of help in reading the rongorongo texts, and I therefore must try to include everything which possibly could be of use for interpreting the signs on the tablets.

Certainly knowledge about numbers is necessary. The ordinal numbers constitute a prime example of a fundamental list.10 and 20 are essential:

10	1. Hagauru, agahuru. Mq.: Onohuú, okohuú. Ta.: Ahuru. 2. Ma.: Tekau
20	Mgv.: Takau. Ta.: Toau. Mq.: Tekau. To.: Tekau.

Tekau is not teka. Kau (to move one's feet, 'swimming') comes later than the 'dart'. In the tropics counting continues with the toes beyond 10. Maori tekau for 10 presumably indicates this. Maybe tekau arrives at makohe:

10	*makohe*	frigate
9	*kukuru toua*	white pigeon?
8	*ka araara*	sooty tern
7	*te verovero*	sooty tern

Already number 9 signifies the 'death' of Spring Sun. Teka means an 'arrow' and support for this reading is given by vero (in verovero).

The 'death' of Spring Sun must be accomplished by a flying weapon, of course. Balder, too, in the far north and on the other side of the earth was killed by an arrow. At such a high latitude the important shining one in the sky was Moon and he was male (whereas Sun was a she). Balder - the white one - surely must have been a personification of Moon.