5. Early
I was convinced there must be a calendar
for the year somewhere in the rongorongo texts.
It was established 'fact' that there was a
calendar for the month incised on the Mamari
tablet and I had myself found what definitely
was a calendar for the
week in Hb9-17--58 (with parallel in P).
The
henua calendar in G (with parallel in K) was
the obvious candidate for what could be a
description of the year. I spent much effort trying to coordinate
the glyphs of the 31 periods with the days of
the year. There was only one solution which
seemed to fit, viz. to let each period stand for
13 days:
13 and 31 are 'reflecting' each
other and 13 * 31 = 403:
My solution
for 13 glyphs in each henua period was attractive
because it
reminded me of the Mayan tzolkin (with 13
* 20 = 260 days), and later I also became aware
of 13 * 28 = 364 (cfr in Kuukuu):
|
52 |
260
= 5 * 52 |
52 |
|
364 = 4 * 91 = 7 * 52 |
Below I
have updated my calendar table slightly but kept
its main structure. For practical reasons I have
divided the periods into quartets:
The
purpose of presenting the table above is
2-fold - we need it in what follows and I think it
will be useful as a reference later on.
