I once estimated the first line on side a to have 30 glyph spaces, the same number as in the 3rd and 5th lines:
We do not need to look closer on line Ra5 for the moment, but the absence of glyphs at the very beginning of line Ra1 must be examined:
Possibly the absence of 5 glyphs at the beginning of side a means absence of 'fire'. If we subtract 30 - 5 = 25 the result means Saturn. *Ra1-25 is not the usual type of haga rave, it does not have the pointed front end, and it should therefore rather mean the 'harbour of autumn':
Hakaariki ('to make a king') in *Ra1-16 could express a símilar idea - the 'Fire King' (Sun) must be recreated. In *Ra1-8 there are 5 maro 'feathers' hanging down and in *Ra1-15 mauga has 3 + 3 'feathers' emerging from behind 'the mountain' (mauga). Yet another week and the 'feathers' are no longer there. From *Ra1-17 a new season has arrived and the last 10 glyphs in the line is beginning with Mars depicted as hetuu. Sun time is once again running (*Ra1-26). In the following *Ra1-27 Moon has no force to stop him, that is why we hardly can see anything of this glyph. It must be a sign. |