Given a leap year with February 29 to count with, the distance in days from Ca12-10 to Ca1-6 will be 46:
87 (= 3 * 29) + 365 - 406 = 46 = 366 - 320. Metoro said kua oho ra (not kua oho te ra) at the figure running away in Ca12-11.
My idea is that this person - which is firmly incised, resulting in a dark impression - who has a great hand up in front (as if ready to catch something) could represent the time when Sun is at the horizon in the west. When in the tropics the Sun is close to the horizon his descent appears to be remarkably quick, as if he suddenly started to run. The figure sitting at left in Ca12-12 resembles similar ones in the Moon calendar, e.g. Ca6-26:
September 3 is day 246, but perhaps it was day 244 (= 4 * 61) in the C calendar.
62 * 6 = 372 is probably significant. 372 (Ca6-26) - 12 * 12 (Ca12-12) = 228 = 12 * 19. I.e., 372 = 12 * 31. There are tiny dots in front both in Ca6-26 and in Ca6-27. 62 * 13 = 806 = 2 * 403 = 2 * 13 * 31. Ca12-11 could have been at day 325 in the C calendar and 32 * 5 = 160. Whatever the meaning of Metoro's ra it seems possible he could have used his frequent koia as a contrast to his kua oho:
In my wordlist I have only one example of koia: ... To mouth-feed (arch.) he-mama i te vai tôa koia ko te tiapito kiroto ki te haha o te poki, she mouth-feeds the child with sugarcane juice together with tiapito juice. The bulging stomach sign could mean pregnant = mother and child still together. I guess Metoro was using special terms, possibly invented on the spot by him but rather what he remembered from the technical idiom of the masters on Easter Island. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
