Is it possible to find autumn equinox (presumably when Summer Sun is leaving for his winter maid) in glyph line Gb3? Close to the equator Sun disappears quickly in the evening, like a 'lizard' shooting down into his hole. Counted from line a1 the line number of Gb3 is 8 + 3 = 11 ('one more' than 10), which possibly could explain hanau moko in Gb3-13:
Birth is on its way, so much is evident, and the belly must then of course be swollen like a ripe berry. Perhaps it is the dark half of the year who is on his way to be born. Takaure (probably a name for 'winter') stands indeed at the beginning of the line:
There are 180 glyphs to the end of side b. 292 can be read as 29 and 2 (i.e. as an allusion to Moon), whereas 181 (the number of the first glyph on the front side counted from Gb3-1) can be read as 18 and 1 (an allusion to Sun). We need a few further pages for our investigation. |