Experience tells us that number 16 in the line should end the sequence of glyphs in the 'list' and looking at the glyphs from Eb7-17 and forward it is clear that such is the case. Possibly, though, the list should begin earlier than with Eb7-3. The interpretation of the first 6 glyphs from Eb7-3 onwards is not self-evident:
Eb7-7 is like Eb7-5 and Moon has 2 faces (mata). Therefore Eb7-7 should belong to Moon rather than to Mars. 549 = 9 * 61 (and 6 * 61 = 366 implies 549 could refer to 1½ cycle). 54 * 9 = 486 = 6 * 81 = 18 * 27 = 324 * 150%. Mars is the 'reincarnation in spring' of the Sun child who is born at winter solstice, a reckless youth with Herculean powers. Vai in Eb7-4 has 4 'horns', but the complex in Eb7-8 has only 3 (= the number of procreation and spring). Mars has also 2 'faces' and these seem here to be illustrated as a pair of oppositely oriented haga rave signs (the one at left weak and the one at right strong). 55 * 4 = 220 could be the very last day of spring - the central sign is a toa (probably signifying a 'dry sugar cane', a sign of the 'season of straw'). The triplet of hura glyphs share the sign at bottom, a dropformed 'nut' from which grows the hura 'plants'. Evidently also Metoro saw them as 'plants', because he said te rakau ('the tree'):
From the birth of Sun at new year he is steadily growing in stature, like a tree. The 3 subdivisions of spring is mapped from the week, in the order Sun, Moon, and Mars. The number of the uplifted hura 'balls' in this 'spring' season is 4 + 5 + 5 = 14, presumably meaning 14 * 15 = 210 days. During the first 4 * 15 = 60 days Sun is not 'present in person', but then he arrives and will stay for 10 * 15 = 150 days - only during half his total of 300 days because he has two 'wives'. |
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