2. Glyph number 182 (= 364 / 2 = 7 * 52) is in the Mamari text Ca7-14 (the 26th glyph in the so-called Moon Calendar), and here Metoro mentioned the hua sign - looking like a fish - hanging at left:
The period is the 3rd (of 8) in the calendar and at left in Ca7-9 (a Thursday) the normal right arm has been changed into a wing (with the arm as a separate entity left in the background). I think this glyph perhaps is telling about what happens after 6 lunar months (6 * 29½ = 177). 7 * 9 + 177 = 240 (= 480 / 2) The pair of crescents (Ca7-10 and Ca7-13) could be a sign of an eclipse ('Rahu'), as in Ga1-15 and Ga1-19:
The negation of the sign for day, as e.g. in Ca7-13, appears in all 8 periods of the Mamari calendar:
The offspring (hua) should be there immediately beyond the dark nights, such is the basic rule of the cycle of life and death. When the newborn baby - not yet dry behind his ears - is held high up in the fresh breeze the first question surely is whose boy this is? Who is the father? |