5. Possibly this 'week' of waxing (illustrated by 6-feathered growing maro strings) is at the end of the waning phase, because it can be imagined to be the time when Moon is about to give birth to the next month (Moon) - or it could refer to the next waxing phase in general, e.g. to Spring Sun, who also is born in a dark time:
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5 * 6 = 30 |
|
Ga4-10 |
Ga4-13 |
Ga4-15 |
Ga4-19 |
Ga4-22 (*12) |
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 |
If we disregard the
feathers in Ga4-13 and Ga5-3, then their number will be 24 + 4 = 28
(equal to the number of nights in a month when Moon is shining). |
4 + 6 = 10 |
|
Ga4-27 |
Ga5-3
(*14) |
It can be debated whether the dark moon belongs at the end of waning or at the beginning of waxing. But in the Mamari text the beginning of the month is characterized by a person standing up as Saturn, the dark day when a new 'fire' is generated:
| period 1 |
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| Ca6-17 |
Ca6-18 |
Ca6-19 |
Ca6-20 |
Ca6-21 |
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| Ca6-22 |
Ca6-23 |
Ca6-24 |
In the following 7 Moon periods the corresponding persons are sitting down. And we should remember that Arcturus is 'a pillar to stand by'.
Ana-tahua-taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae is the Tahitian name of Arcturus:
| Tahu To assist. T Ma.: tahutahu, to attend upon. Tahuga, pair, to share out, to put in order, to distribute. Hakatahuga, to put in pairs, to arrange. P (Metathetic from stem tufa). Mgv.: tahua, a collection of things properly classified and kept in order. Mq.: tauna, a couple. Churchill.
Pau.: tahua. 1. Field of battle. Ta.: tahua, id. 2. Floor. Ta.: tahua, id. Tahuga, wise, capable, doctor, artisan. Mgv.: tuhuga, wise, instructed, adroit. Mq.: tuhuna, wise, instructed, artisan. Sa.: tufuga, carpenter. Ma.: tohunga, adroit, wise, priest. Tahutahu, sorcerer. Ta.: tahu, sorcerer. Churchill.
Mgv.: tahu. 1. A tenant farmer. Ma.: tahu, opulent, possessing property. 2. To stir up a fire. Ta.: to build a fire, to light. Mq.: tahu, to light a fire. Sa.: tafu, id. Ma.: to set on fire, to kindle, to cook. Tahuna, a shallow, shoal, bank. Mq.: tahuna, beach gravel, shingle. Sa.: tafuna, a rocky place in the sea. Ma.: a shoal, a beach. Tohua, a place of public assembly. Mq.: tohua, public place, soil, land. Mq.: tahuahi, the servant in charge of the fire. Ha.: kahuahi, id. Ta.: tahuhu, ridgepole. Ma.: tahuhu, id. Mgv.: tohuhu, a ridgepole. Mq.: tohuhu, ridge, roofing. Churchill.
Tahua, sloping stone surface of ahu. Vanaga.
T. Tahua, board, plank. Tahu'a, T. Priest, artist. OR. Tahua mimi, bladder. Fischer. |
Beyond the 14th (or 12th) period in the henua calendar its 2nd phase is beginning, probably the reason why there are 2 'special beak' kiore:
|
period 15 |
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|
|
Ga4-23 |
Ga4-24 |
Ga4-25 |
Ga4-26 |
Ga4-27 |
|
period 16 |
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|
|
Ga5-1 |
Ga5-2 |
Ga5-3 |
The pattern with 5 + 3 = 8 glyphs is the same as in the 1st period of the Mamari moon calendar.
In Ga4-23--34 the pair of mama - perhaps
the same word as mama
in Pachamama ('World Mother', Mother Earth) -
have dots and 6 + 6 = 12 'chevrons'. Gods must be born in the
dark:
"Nut, whom the
Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky,
but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object
of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said,
married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had
the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that
Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year.
Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing
draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a
seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed
five new days.
As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official
Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus
able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris,
Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys." (New
Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology)
Maybe 'ghostly' henua signs
indicate such 'dark nights':
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|
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13 |
| Ga4-11 |
Ga4-12 |
Ga4-13 |
Ga4-14 (98) |
|
|
|
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| Ga5-1 (112) |
Ga5-2 |
Ga5-3 |
Ga5-4 |
Tagata rima i ruga glyphs are following the open henua
signs, and - we should remember - upraised arms could be a sign
of welcoming (crf at Glyph Types):
 |
Upraised
arms
can
be a
sign
of
welcoming:
"...
After
passing
this
valley
we
saw
a
number
of
men
collected
upon
a
hill
some
distance
from
us
and
some
with
spears
but
on
the
people
which
were
with
us
calling
to
them
they
dispers'd
except
a
few
amongst
which
was
a
man
seemingly
of
some
note,
he
was
a
stout
made
man
with
a
fine
open
countenance,
his
face
painted,
his
body
tatowed
and
some
thing
whiter
than
the
rest
and
he
wore
a
better
ah-hou,
with
both
hands
clinch'd
lifting
them
over
his
head,
opening
them
wide
and
leting
them
fall
gradually
down
to
his
sides,
they
told
us
he
was
the
arekee
of
the
Island
which
they
call'd
Wy-hu,
this
they
seem'd
all
to
agree
in
..."
(J.
C.
Beaglehole,
The
Journals
of
Captain
Cook
II:
The
Voyage
of
The
Resolution
and
Adventure
1772-1775.) |
| tagata
rima
i
ruga |
| man
with
upraised
arms |
| solstice |
Furthermore, from Elbow Ornaments a relevant
discussion should be quoted in full:
|
... We should not forget to measure the distance from the previous tagata rima i ruga:
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89 |
 |
| Ga1-2 (3) |
Ga4-9 (93) |
Apparently Ga4-9 is located a quarter (90 days) beyond winter solstice. But 4 * 9 = 36 could make us consider a position at day number 360 - though the high neck and short legs talk against a position in midwinter (where we usually assume day number 360 should be located). In fact, neither summer solstice nor winter solstice are probable locations, because this person is not drawn en face but looking ahead - he is on his way.
Yet henua period number 10 should be an end station for Sun:
| period 2 |
3 |
4 |
period 10 |
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15 |
8 |
|
|
| Ga3-6 (*9) |
Ga3-7 |
Ga3-8 (68) |
Ga3-9 (*12) |
Ga4-9 |
Ga4-10 (94) |
After his disappearance down into the Underworld there presumably will follow 2 'tail feathers' to the end of the year:
| 11 |
|
|
|
| Ga4-11 (95) |
Ga4-12 |
Ga4-13 |
| 12 |
|
|
| Ga4-14 (98) |
Ga4-15 |
Neither kiore in Ga4-13 nor in Ga4-15 is the same person as the earlier kiore figures, judging from their jaws.
Period number 11 is beginning with a glyph resembling the tamaiti glyph type and it is a Saturday - signs of how the old Sun is dead and buried, I guess. But a true tamaiti glyph should have - according to my criteria - a little 'bulb' at bottom:
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|
 |
| tamaiti |
Ga4-11 (95) |
hakaua |
Maybe the child is still growing inside the body of his mother. My glyph type hakaua ('making rain') could imply 'a rain god' is being 'baked in the earth-oven':
|
228 |
 |
| Ga4-11 (95) |
Gb4-3 (324) |
| 229 |
229 is, evidently, the 'pregnancy' period, equal to the number of glyphs on side a. And - we should remember - there should be a 7-day long 'unclean' week after that:
... Under Mosaic law, a mother who had given birth to a man-child was considered unclean for seven days; moreover she was to remain for three and thirty days 'in the blood of her purification', which makes a total of 40 days ...
... the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun ...
If we add 7 to 229 the number becomes 8 * 29½ = 236. If we add 40 it becomes 269:
|
228 |
|
6 |
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31 |
 |
| Ga4-11 (95) |
Gb4-3 (324) |
Gb4-10 |
Gb4-11 |
Gb5-10 (364) |
| 236 = 4 * 59 |
33 |
| 269 |
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