1. Although it is possible that vaha kai in
Gb5-10 depicts an ear (tariga) the meaning of the expression
vaha kai (which Metoro said a few times at this type of
glyph) is an opening (vaha) for 'eating' (kai):
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Gb5-6 |
Gb5-7 |
Gb5-8 |
Gb5-9 (363) |
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Gb5-10 |
Gb5-11 |
Gb5-12 (366) |
5 * 10 = 50 and it is a Friday, which suggests
we should count with 50 dark nights without Venus being visible,
i.e. the period between Venus a morning star and Venus as
evening star.
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phase |
observed periods |
periods in the G text |
difference |
|
evening star |
263 |
290 |
+ 27 |
|
black |
8 |
8 |
- |
|
morning star |
263 |
236 |
- 27 |
|
black |
50 |
50 |
- |
|
sum |
584 |
584 |
- |
363 + 50 = 413 is exactly the right number,
because there (in Gb7-2) we will find a hau tea with
mata both in front and at the back, a sign of end together
with a new beginning. Maybe the mata at left refers to
the morning star and the mata at right to the evening
star:
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Gb6-17 |
Gb6-18 |
Gb6-19 |
Gb6-20 |
Gb6-21 |
Gb6-22 |
Gb6-23 |
Gb6-24 |
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Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26 |
Gb6-27 |
Gb6-28 |
Gb7-1 |
Gb7-2 |
Gb7-3 |
Gb7-4 |
But Tamaiti ('the little child' of the
new year - to be counted in lunar synodic months) arrives the
day after, and possibly therefore the idea of 50 days in the
dark has only been borrowed by the creator of the G calendar in
order to be used as a model for the darkest time of the year. It
would be strange if the front side of the year which follows
later on side a were accompanied by Venus as evening star,
because it is the morning star which is located in the east.
However, from
tamaiti to side a there are 2 more months.
If we assume a shared system (among the rongorongo
writers) of glyph lines and ordinal numbers of the glyphs in the
line, then it could be possible to compare Gb7-1--2 with Eb7-1--2:
