8. According to the idiom of rongorongo we can (in Ga1-18) see that the 1st season of some kind is opening up in front, expressed as a day of Saturn with 1 'eye' (maybe a hole) at right and with no such as left:
The 'eye' formed as a hole should refer to Moon rather than to Sun, because Sun cannot be seen for more than half the day, which fact presumably also has relevance for interpreting the maitaki type of glyph:
Semicircles could indicate periods defined by Sun (or at least defined by 'fires' in the sky). Semicircles at left should mean its opposite - the 'fire' is not visible in the sky (i.e. it is night if Sun is the 'fire'). If there are 3 stars shining in the sky (as in the Belt of Orion when this constellation is visible) then they could be depicted as a triplet of halfcircles towards right and when they are invisible they could be represented as a triplet of halfcircles towards left. The straight vertical line between will be the horizon (in time as well as space). The semicircles at left in Ga1-17 and Ga1-21 could then indicate that Sun is not visible:
There are more glyphs with possible gagana signs in G, and I have redmarked 3 which clearly belong together :
The double eyes in Gb7-18 and Gb8-7 presumably are telling about a '2nd season' and appropriately there are also 2 glyphs rather close together:
Gb7-18 is in the same position in the line as Ga1-18, but 8 + 7 - 1 = 14 lines later. All three glyphs have their front eye drawn as irregular, not as circles and hardly even as ovals. I search for some numerical sign of 378 = the number of days in the synodical period of Saturn. Although Saturn lies more far away than Jupiter its synodical period is shorter, which is somewhat surprising because the siderial periods of the planets decrease with distance from the sun. Even more extreme is 780 days for the synodical period of Mars, which is closest to us among the outer planets (those of them which were known in antiquity):
But I cannot find the distance 378:
Neither is any of the usually fertile multiplications (11 * 8 = 88, 71 * 8 = 568, 8 * 7 = 56) immediately rewarding. 88 + 290 = 378 and 568 - 190 = 378 are results too farfetched, I think. Maybe the synodical period of Saturn is irrelevant. Saturn is the oldest and he should therefore have a period which is longer than those 399 days of Jupiter. It is an ugly fact that the orbit of Jupiter apperars to be longer than the orbit of Saturn, it does not fit into a cosmological framework. However, if we count 378 glyphs from Ga1-18 we will arrive at Gb6-14 and possibly things are beginning to fall into their right places:
364 is one less than 365 and 294 is one less than 295, i.e. these numbers are similar in position. Gagana in Gb6-14 stands at the beginning of a solar type of year (with each glyph to be counted as a week) while gagana in Gb8-7 stands at the beginning of a year counted as 10 lunar synodic months (given that each glyph is counted as a week). With 7 as the position of Saturn in the week, it will be natural to regard the synodical period of Saturn as 54 weeks. In a deck of playing cards there are 4 * 13 = 52 regular cards and 2 jokers. If we count 378 from the beginning of the front side of the text we ought to find a relevant glyph:
The glyph type - says Metoro - is hakaariki ('to make a king'):
Tagata in Gb5-27 can be explained by counting 52 * 7 = 364. And then we can understand why the figure in Gb5-29 is disappearing - it will represent day number 366 if tagata is day number 364. Day number 360 will be the day of Jupiter in Gb5-23 and it is therefore time to begin the ceremonies to create a new king in the following day, number 378. 'Fire' (5) has reached midnight (24). |
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