Haś
in Ga8-5 - a curve which presumably illustrates the final stage
of a path - has 16 feather signs. Haś in Ga8-16 has 10
feather signs, and the head hanging down (maybe from a broken
neck) should be that of Sun:
 |
15 |
 |
10 |
 |
6 |
 |
3 |
 |
|
Ga7-23 (193) |
Ga8-5 (209) |
Ga8-16 (220) |
Ga8-23 (227) |
Gb1-1 (231) |
|
16 feathers |
16 feathers |
10 feathers |
14 feathers |
8 feathers |
|
16 |
19 |
4 |
The
first glyph on side b is also a 'broken neck' haś, but with 8 feathers,
and its 'head' is more like a square than a circle, signs which
I interpret as a change from the season of sky (spring) to the
season of earth (autumn) - when Moon is ruling instead of Sun. A
kind of ure is in front, suggesting autumn is the time
when a new generation will come to fruit.
I think
these 5 haś glyphs should be considered together. The
number of feathers are distributed in an orderly fashion, with
twice 16 followed by 10 + 14. If a month is to be counted as 4 +
16 = 20 nights, then the first 4 of them could be nights when
Moon still has not been very much illuminated by Sun, cfr the
Hawaiian Moon calendar and my interpretation at Ure Honu:
|
Waxing |
|
11 Ole-ku-kahi |
18 Akua |
|
Waning |
|
1 Kane |
5 Hilo |
12 Ole-ku-lua |
19 Hoku |
25 Ole-ku-kahi |
|
2 Lono |
6 Hoaka |
13 Ole-ku-kolu |
20
Mahea-lani |
26 Ole-ku-lua |
|
3 Mauli |
7 Ku-kahi |
14 Ole-pau |
21 Kulu |
27 Ole-pau |
|
4 Muku |
8 Ku-lua |
15 Huna |
22 Laau-ku-kahi |
28 Kaloa-ku-kahi |
| |
9 Ku-kolu |
16 Mohalu |
23 Laau-ku-lua |
29 Kaloa-ku-lua |
|
10 Ku-pau |
17 Hua |
24 Laau-pau |
Twice
16 feathers can therefore be interpreted as 2 months defined by
Moon. Next there are 10 + 14 = 24 feathers, which we easily can
recognize as alluding to the diurnal cycle defined by Sun.
Interesting is how 10 (as in the number of months for Sun in a
year) here can serve to define the 1st half of a day (or
year) with a 'fortnight' serving to illustrate the 2nd half.
The
distribution agrees with my interpretation above of the Hawaiian Moon
calendar. 4 + 6 = 10 nights can allude to 4 months of winter,
which then are
followed by 6 months of summer. Next comes Moon who is beautiful
during a
'fortnight' and then has 5 'nights of waning'. Sun is
illuminating Moon in a satisfactory fashion during 14 + 5 = 19
nights - or 19 * 10 = 190 days:
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga7-17 |
Ga7-18 |
Ga7-19 |
Ga7-20 |
Ga7-21 (190) |
There
are 19 (a Sun number) glyphs from Ga8-5 (a Sun day) up to and
including Ga8-23 (a day of Jupiter). From Ga7-23 to Ga8-5 there are 16 glyphs and
beyond Ga8-23 up to and including Gb1-1 there are 4 glyphs. 19 +
(16 + 4) = 29.
In view of
this discussion it is possible to perceive Rei in Ga8-1 as the
1st glyph in a quartet which precedes 19 glyphs representing
high summer (or the 19 nights in a month when Moon is at her
best):
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga8-1 (205) |
Ga8-2 |
Ga8-3 |
Ga8-4
(*272) |
|
|
10 |
|
6 |
|
|
Ga8-5 (209) |
Ga8-16 (220) |
Ga8-23 (227) |
|
16 feathers |
10 feathers |
14 feathers |
|
19 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Ga8-24
(*292) |
Ga8-25 |
Ga8-26 |
Gb1-1 (231) |
4
glyphs precede those 19, just as in the Hawaiian Moon calendar
there are 4 nights before the new Moon will be lit up properly. At the
other end, beyond Ga8-23, there are another 4 glyphs.
Furthermore, we have recently (at 268) seen that
Ana-mua probably is standing at the beginning of 19 central
days preceding the last 'half' of summer:
|
Ana-mua (?)
|
2nd half of
summer (?) |
 |
17 |
 |
26 |
98 |
 |
24 |
 |
|
Ga7-16 (186) |
Ga7-34
(*268) |
Gb4-8 (329) |
Gb4-33 (354) |
|
19 |
150 |
If a month
should be counted as 20 nights, then the first 4 items in my
table can be discarded, because they belong in the previous
month according to the Hawaiian Moon calendar and because we
then can
perceive 6 nights of growth followed by 14 nights of beauty:
|
(1 Kane) |
5 Hilo |
|
11 Ole-ku-kahi |
18 Akua |
|
(2 Lono) |
6 Hoaka |
12 Ole-ku-lua |
19 Hoku |
|
(3 Mauli) |
7 Ku-kahi |
13 Ole-ku-kolu |
20
Mahea-lani |
|
(4 Muku) |
8 Ku-lua |
14 Ole-pau |
21 Kulu |
|
|
9 Ku-kolu |
15 Huna |
22 Laau-ku-kahi |
|
10 Ku-pau |
16 Mohalu |
23 Laau-ku-lua |
|
|
17 Hua |
24 Laau-pau |
24 hours for a right ascension
cycle has its beginning with spring equinox as
0h. After 6 hours midsummer will be reached. The
time before spring equinox belongs at the end of
the previous cycle.
If we count with 26 days for each
item in the Hawaiian calendar, then 4 * 26 = 104
agrees with the ordinal number for Ga4-20 (cfr
at Moko) - probably the position of
Ana-tipu (cfr at 268) - and from 'the
climbing bird', manu kake, in Ga4-21
there evidently are 10 * 26 = 260 days before
Sun will be 'swallowed':
|
103 |
 |
 |
102 |
|
|
Ga4-20 (*168) |
Ga4-21 |
Ga8-4
(208) |
|
104 = 4 * 26 |
104 = 4 * 26 |
|
|
102 |
 |
 |
50 |
 |
|
Ga8-5 |
Gb3-21 (312) |
Gb3-22 |
Gb5-10 (364) |
|
104 = 4 * 26 |
52 = 2 * 26 |
Maybe, therefore, we should count
the first 4 'nights' twice, both at the end of
the cycle and at its beginning:
