March 21, the northern spring equinox, was in a way the beginning of 'the year in leaf', but south of the equator it was the opposite. Furthermore, it was not equinox but rather May 17 (Sheratan 1) which could have marked the beginning of the new year, the first day after 8 weeks counted from March 21. And then it could have been a rather poor 'land' which was created (or born), a season of 'wind' (te matagi):
Instead of 8 times 10 days to reach March 21 they evidently could have added 8 times 7 days to reach May 16. Discarding the zero in 10 we can guess One and Seven Hunaphu was a code for some similar formula. Popol Vuh also mentiones One and Seven Death, as I remember it, which presumably refers to the same kind of structure used for 'the year in straw'. November 16 (320) = Syrma 1 (184) is 184 days after Tau-ono (the last '6 stars' in the Pleiades). And 9 days later Antares rose together with Sun:
Ca9-21 could be meant as 92 * 1 = 92 (= 2 * 46 = 184 / 2). November 25 could have been meant as 92 * 5 = 460 (= 368 + 92). Syrma 10 is manzil day 193 = 192 + 1 and in rongorongo times this was the night after that when Ain in Taurus would ideally had risen together with Moon:
193 (Syrma 10) - 10 (Sheratan 10) = 249 (Antares) - 66 (Ain) = 329 (November 25) - 146 (May 26) = 183. Instead of '1 and 7' (as among the Mayas north of the equator) the formula south of the equator could have been '6 and 1'. Comparing with the beginning of the G text we can see 6 days before 'the rains of Pleione':
The single day (star) is not visible, but I have used Gb8-30 in order to make it visible:
The pair of glyphs thus created can be compared with the pair Ca9-18--19. Maybe the maitaki type of glyph could illustrate '6' and the puo type illustrate '1' (2 halves united):
Possibly, therefore, we should count 6 days ahead from the 2nd maitaki glyph (Ca9-19). This formula brings us to Pleione 1 (as a nakshatra date).
... Savage tribes knew the Pleiades familiarly, as well as did the people of ancient and modern civilization; and Ellis wrote of the natives of the Society and Tonga Islands, who called these stars Matarii, the Little Eyes: The two seasons of the year were divided by the Pleiades; the first, Matarii i nia, the Pleiades Above, commenced when, in the evening, those stars appeared on the horizon, and continued while, after sunset, they were above. The other season, Matarii i raro, the Pleiades Below, began when, at sunset, they ceased to be visible, and continued till, in the evening, they appeared again above the horizon. Gill gives a similar story from the Hervey group, where the Little Eyes are Matariki, and at one time but a single star, so bright that their god Tane in envy got hold of Aumea, our Aldebaran, and, accompanied by Mere, our Sirius, chased the offender, who took refuge in a stream. Mere, however, drained off the water, and Tane hurled Aumea at the fugitive, breaking him into the six pieces that we now see, whence the native name for the fragments, Tauono, the Six, quoted by Flammarion as Tau, both titles singularly like the Latin Taurus. They were the favorite one of the various avelas, or guides at sea in night voyages from one island to another; and, as opening the year, objects of worship down to 1857, when Christianity prevailed throughout these islands ... The 'year in leaf' could be the season when the Pleiades ceased to be visible, because 'one' ought to refer to the opposite of 'six' - and when Tau-ono could be counted as 6 they must have been visible. In Ca9-25 the glyph type is mea ke.
When the Pleiades were visible it was 'nighttime' ('winter') and when they were close to Sun it was 'daytime' ('summer'). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
