2. Day number 186 counted from Gb8-30 corresponds to day 250 counted from Rogo in Gb6-26. But maybe we should count from Gb6-20:
250 for Rehua would then be changed into 256, which is equal to the number of glyphs from Gb8-30 to the end of line b1:
The distance from Rehua (if the star indeed is located at mago in Gb7-16) to Gb1-26 is 256 - 186 = 70 glyphs (probably days). This number has not received our attention earlier, but obviously it could signify a measure for when 10 (Sun) is combined with 7 ('land'). It is also the distance from the raaraa glyph (which could indicate winter solstice) to the end of side b:
Maybe, therefore, there is a correspondence between the glyphs which could represent the season of summer solstice and those which could represent the season of winter solstice:
256 - 184 = 72. Gb6-20 is 216 (= 3 * 72) glyphs after Ga7-17. In Ga7-17 arms emerge from the bottom of the central raaraa while in Gb6-20 strings emerge from the top of the central raaraa. Utnapishtim built a 'ship' which had 6 decks and which was formed as a perfect cube, later it stranded at the top of a mountain I suppose. 6 * 6 * 6 = 216. Leaving this thread of investigation for the moment I must here insert comments regarding the location of the calendar of the week in the text of H (before we forget my idea of the planets and the coloured balls in the Atan Manuscript). When a few years ago I was working with the mago glyph type in my outline glyph dictionary I arrived at the conclusion that mago in Hb9-63 probably had a position at the beginning of a calendar. The table below is an adaptation of my thoughts:
It is not inconceivable that the long H text could have been designed with 3 glyphs per day. I have counted the number of the glyphs in lines b10-b12 as 67 + 53 + 50 = 170. However, as regards 50 for the last line there is room for doubt:
Both Barthel in his Grundlagen and Fischer (Rongorongo. The Easter Island Script: History, Traditions, Texts.) indicate that there could be one destroyed glyph at the end of the line and I have therefore counted with 49 (the square of 7) + 1 = 50. If mago in Hb9-63 indeed should be involved in a 7 glyph long structure at the beginning of a calendar, then we can see how the end of the week could be understood, because Saturn is the one who ignites a new fire:
Counting from Rei in Hb9-56 there are 3 + 177 = 180 glyphs to the end of the side, a sequence which possibly corresponds to 60 days. Moreover, there are 42 glyphs in the calendar for the week and we can therefore extend 60 days to 73 days by beginning to count at Sunday. And the 1st of these 73 days will then terminate with a rau hei leaning forward, a sign which could mean 'falling on his face', cfr Gb7-2 and Gb7-4:
Perhaps we can venture to say that in H the planets are located at the beginning of a new solar year, similar to how a rainbow usually signifies when Sun is about to return. If Old Sun is falling on his face in Hb9-19 and if Rei in Hb9-56 initiates a new 'week', then the core of the week is beginning with manu rere in Hb9-20 and ending with pu ('hole') in Hb9-55. 42 - 3 - 3 = 36. Furthermore, 95 * 5 - 9 * 20 = 475 - 180 = 295 (= 10 * 29½). My suggestion that the structure of the week could have been used as a template for other cycles gains support by these numbers. 472 - 177 = 295, for instance. Manu rere ('the living spirit') could consequently rather signify the returning 'bird' than the leaving spirit. We should remember from the creation myth of the Moriori fishermen (cfr at Rogo): ... Then the spirit was gathered in. And this was the chant for that work: Let the spirit of the man be gathered to the world of being, the world of light. / Then see. Placed in the body is the flying bird, the spirit-breath. / Then breathe! / Sneeze, living spirit, to the world of being, the world of light. / Then see. Placed in the body is the flying bird, the breath. / Be breathing then, great Tu. Now live! Then man existed, and the progeny of Tu increased ... And the reversed manu rere should then refer to the leaving spirit:
His tail is drawn as a very distinct sign for no incoming light and the same goes for his wing in front. If we add 73 (representing my guess for the distance in days from Hb9-17 to the end of the side) then the sum is 447 + 73 = 520 (= 20 * 26). The pu glyph type presumably is drawn with the same world view in mind as in ancient Egypt where they saw Sun rise through a hole in the east every morning and descend through another hole in the evening (cfr at A Common Sign Vocabulary):
In the center a serpent is rising. |
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