3. Thus we can continue and focus on the 8 remaining poporo glyphs, half of them in line b1 and the other half in line b2:
We have to admit that the G text is well ordered, and obviously we are invited to compare the first of these 8 poporo glyphs with the last of them:
The form of the 'drop' at bottom in Gb1-9 presumably indicates Sun as 'Rain God'. At Ana-mua I suggested that the following glyph number 240 illustrates how the head of Sun disappears, and furthermore how the sign of 4 omitted 'flames' around vaha kai could mean the onset of the rainy season:
... The season for this variant of vaha kai seems to be where the path of Sun turns around into its 2nd phase. Therefore, I guess, his 'head' has disappeared in Gb1-10 and a 2nd 'arm' is growing up in front like a replacement. The fate of Sun's head is evident first in the pair Gb1-6--7 and then at left in Gb1-9. The last 'face' of Sun is Jupiter and 1-9 presumably alludes to 19 (Sun) ... 40 days later comes the last of the 8 poporo glyphs, drawn in a similar manner as the 1st of them in order to connect the pair, and we can integrate the information in a new way:
Instead of the head of Spring Sun with face down (in Gb1-9) there is only a tiny dot at left in Gb2-24. Maybe the creator of the text was aware of our full stop as a sign for a completed sentence. 280 is 10 completed months (counting only the nights when Moon is shining) = 20 fortnights. Based on the key number 8 we can assign the main part of the front side of the text to 168 glyphs ending with Gb1-10 and the main part of the back side of the text to 192 glyphs ending with Gb8-30 - where 8 * 30 could allude to how this glyph also is needed as the first glyph of the front side. Together these main parts amount to 360 (= 168 + 192) glyphs, with an additional 72 + 40 = 112 (= 8 * 14) glyphs needed to reach 16 * 29½ = 8 * 59 = 472. |
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