5. In e.g. H a hakaturou glyph similarly marks the time when a.m. turns around to p.m.:
And from then on the number of feathers in front on tapamea will be 6. Tagata in Ha6-2 is the first of 6 such glyphs, and - like in the G text - there is one tagata which is special. However, this one is standing out because of its slender tall neck - as if the H picture was the negative of the G picture (or rather the G picture was the negative of the H picture, I guess):
And in this glyph (Hb5-27) we can count 52 * 7 = 364, by the method used at Gb5-27. Here I have used red colour not to indicate a Sunday but to draw attention. There is a burnt area on the H tablet which makes counting glyphs somewhat uncertain:
But we can anyhow try to search for a number play similar to that in G:
Numbers with asterisks (*658, *572, and *583) are my estimates based on how many glyphs could have been assigned by the creator of the text for the burnt area in lines a9 (*13) respectively a11 (*22). If we count with these numbers (i.e. including also the number of imagined glyphs on the burnt area), then the redmarked numbers above are the results. If we do not count with the estimated number of glyphs in the burnt area, then the numbers without asterisks (372, 330, respectively 341) are instead what we have to consider:
12 (Ha6-2) is obvious - it ought to refer to noon (12 o'clock). At the other end, at Hb7-22, number 144 can be understood as the completion of a 'square' of 12. And by cause of 22 / 7 = π it can also be considered to be the completion of half a circle. Ha6-2 and Hb7-22 could together define the beginning and end of a cycle related to number 12. A maro string with 3 feathers is hanging down from the dry old hand of a tagata mata 3 glyphs earlier than tagata at the end of the suggested cycle:
3 glyphs later ariga erua has only one head - the head at the back side is 'empty' (an empty hand). 72 * 5 = 360. In G a corresponding - but 'negative' - station could be at Rei in Ga7-22:
Ga7-19 has a new 'star' born at the bottom, I imagine, whereas in Hb7-19 an old and fully grown 'star' is 'dying'. |