5. From the preceding complex investigation we ought to take a quick look at a few other of the earlier results in order to try to keep our minds open. At The Henua Calendar it was shown that Ga5-8 probably was the 1st glyph in the 3rd part of a triplet of lunar double months ending at midsummer. We can now add at the beginning of this half-year long structure one more double month from tamaiti in Gb7-3 to puo at the end of side b:
From tamaiti to henua ora (in Ga7-7) there are 4 * 59 = 236 glyphs, half the number of the total of 471 + 1 on the tablet. 8 feather signs at left and 8 at right in Ga7-7 presumably refer to 8 lunar months in the past and 8 in front. The last period in the henua calendar includes both the halfway station for Moon and the halfway station for Sun - it is midsummer both according to counting by Moon and according to counting by Sun:
We can therefore suspect a season of Ana-mua will begin at or just before midsummer:
At Sky Pillars I toyed with the idea to reduce the current day number for Ana-mua in order to make an adjustment for the precession and I guessed Antares could be illustrated in the strange eating figure in Ga6-5. The following moe could then stand at the beginning of summer I thought:
Ga6-5 (146) is located 40 glyphs before Ga7-16 (186), which would represent a time depth of around 40 * 72 = ca 3,000 years before the present. But if we instead try to work with idealized star positions glyph number 186 could refer to day number 68 (for Ana-mua) counted from spring equinox:
And we can then guess that Ga6-5 could allude to Toliman, because 68 - 40 = 28 = 250 - 222:
Below I have changed my description a little, compared to that in Sky Pillars, in order to show how number 264 could allude to Sirrah. After the end of the season of Sun (at hau tea in Gb4-33) we can count 264 glyph to reach Ga6-5 and then, maybe, a new Sun season will begin:
208 + 264 = 472 = 8 (26 + 33) = 8 * 26 + 11 * 24. If the arrival of the half-year with Sun present (and not on the other side of the equator) is announced by Toliman, then summer evidently will be shorter than such a half-year (because summer is said to begin with Ana-mua). 208 - 40 = 168, and glyph number 186 on side b (with the same ordinal number as Ga7-16) is number 230 + 1 counted from mago:
7-7 in Gb7-7 is like 7-7 in Ga7-7 and the tails of the rising fishes are closed in front in contrast to the tail of mago at Ana-mua. But our task was to count only from glyph number 186 to glyph number 186 + 168 (notice the reversal) = 354.
168 is probably an 'idealized' number, because 168 + 196 = 364 = 12 * 14 + 14 * 14, where 12 ought to allude to Sun and 14 to Moon. Therefore Ana-mua should be located 1 day before a 168-glyph long sequence ending with number 354. |
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