1. The G and K texts are evidently not beginning with 'July 13 (58 days after the heliacal rising of Atlas and also the day after Castor), where the Easter Island calendar possibly was beginning with the first night in the month of He Anakena.
Instead it could have been another calendar which governed where the texts should begin. The short K text could hardly begin with the Pleiades and end with Antares, because this distance measures 329 - 136 = 193 days (which in rongorongo times probably happened to be equal to the number of days from January 1 up to and including the day for the heliacal rising of Castor). 193 glyphs would have been too much for the limited room on the tablet. Instead both the Pleiades and Antares seem to have been left ouside.
However, the idea may have been in the mind of the creator of the K text, because when I originally estimated the number of glyphs on the tablet I arrived at 192. I had counted also the empty glyph spaces. Perhaps it means we should perceive a text which stretches a distance equal to that from Sheratan 1 to (but not including) the time when Antares was rising heliacally.
In G the Pleiades are not at the beginning of side a either, they come a little earlier, towards the end of side b:
Considering the fact that the Arabic manzil calender has 136 days from January 1 prior to its first day (Sheratan 1) it is rather clear there is a congruence with the Gregorian calendar - both calendars are defined from the cardinal positions of the sun and they are therefore locked tightly together, not allowing the precession to change anything, instead pushing the moving stars ahead in the year. The date Pleione 1 for instance will be at May 31 not only today but it must have been so also around 1870. I have not bothered to label the manzil dates in the same way as the Gregorian dates, e.g. as 'Pleione 1, to indicate the precessional time of the rongorongo texts. From the heliacal rising of the star Pleione around 1870 to 'May 31 (Pleione 1) there were ca 151 - 136 = 15 days, but today the distance is shorter. The first glyph line on the K tablet ought to begin 3 days later than 'May 25 (Sheratan 9) - because we have perceived a rule to add 66 to the glyph number in K in order to reach the number of its right ascension day. The corresponding rule for the G text is to add only 63. But the date at Ka1-1 will then become 'May 27 (Sheratan 11) because I have counted with Gb8-30 as the first glyph of the front side of the G text:
Sheratan 1 coincided with 'May 17 and 136 + 11 = 147:
Manu rere with ihe tau in front (Gb8-27) - presumably a bird of ill omen speaking of death - is in general designed like the glyph Ka3-6:
But the feet of the Gb8-27 bird shields incoming light from entering in front. 47 + 66 = 113 and 49 + 63 = 112. Maybe it means we should add 65 instead of 66 to the glyph numbers in K. But there are several other possible explanations and it is futile to speculate. From Ga2-18 to Gb8-27 there are 420 glyphs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
