2. The beginning of line b2 probably represents the beginning of a new season:
In A Pillar to Stand By was described a probable connection with Ga1-23:
29 refers in the old common sign language of humanity to the dark night of Moon, when Sun is rejuvenating her - he is behind her: ... When the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas ...
Rima aueue signs occur in the moon calendar of Mamari:
Such signs are here of central importance, indicating a contact between Sun (left) and Moon (the fish at right), and possibly they represent a life-giving fluid (vai ora) given by Sun to Moon, the 'fluid' which illuminates Moon anew. 472 (the number of glyphs in the G text) - 256 (Gb1-26) = 216. This number is perhaps alluded to in Gb2-16. |