Once again, the simplest way to count glyphs (and days) is to count only visible glyphs and not to add possibly absent glyphs in vacant spaces. Then, having found Spica at Kb3-8 it will be easy to find out the right ascension days at the beginning of the text:
It is possible to combine this result with my earlier speculations regarding an allusion at the beginning of the text to the 3 islets outside the southwestern corner of Easter Island and the arrival of the new year brought about by the manu tara birds which would alight there:
... The O in Pure O presumably represents the 'Wheel of Time' when it has completed a round ... As an added twist the otherwise empty star position at Ka1-1 can be used in a glyph play for Antares, in which case the peculiar name O will fit - the cycle of time in the K text does not cover a whole solar year and the end positions are instead defined by Ana-mua (Antares) and Ana-muri (Aldebaran). The star at the end (muri) should arrive after the star at the beginning (mua). In G my work of listing stars and glyphs began after having recognized the pair Antares and Aldebaran in Ga7-16 respectively in Ga1-4:
Whatever picture is chosen for illustrating these stars, they should be designed so the reader will see the resemblance between them:
Only the upper part of the glyphs at the beginning of the text is visible, which can be interpreted as a sign that the text will not cover the whole bi-cycle (summer + winter). By placing Antares at the very beginning it will serve as a Sign for the reader that the text somehow describes summer. Though, not summer on Easter Island but summer north of the equator as it once was a long time ago, when it was defined by the heliacal rising of Aldebaran. In contrast the last glyph on side b on the G tablet, a puo (hilled up), is fully visible. The form of its outline suggests an interconnected pair forming a unit, in other words similar to a whole bi-cycle. Perhaps its shape was chosen to resemble a π-nut. From Nga Kope Ririva to what can be imagined as the beginning of the sky raising performed by Atlas (probably Albatain in the Arabic manzil calendar) there are 28 - 13 = 15 days, and Heka (λ Orionis) is the last star before the beginning of this important event:
We must update our table of Chinese way stations, because Heka and Alnitak have now been relocated:
The natural station to begin from appears to be the position immediately before the date Albatain 1. The heliacal rising of Heka could have served as a sign for the 4 northern high summer months (like Bacabs) spreading out to Spica:
In Kb3-7 growth is in the past (at left) of hanau (birth) and in front there is a wilting maro hanging down from an empty hand. Perhaps the lost foothold of kiore in Kb3-8 illustrates how the first half (the legs) of the year is in the past. The kiore could personify a calendar cycle. The descending kahi in Heka 3 (in Gregorian day 192) could represent the Chinese Ghost station and another point (tara) in time, viz. where there is a quarter ahead to Spica (a name which means 'point'):
Assarfa 3 (147) - Heka 3 (56) = 91. The manzil calendar is beginning 136 days later than the Gregorian calendar and in K glyph 137 (= 136 + 1) is the position of Spica. In G the text on side a of the tablet is 229 glyphs long and 229 + 136 = 365. Side b could therefore in some way reflect the back side of the year, from Spica onwards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
