Next we should notice etoru kiori (not kiore):
The change from -e to -i cannot be understood as a mark of plural. The Polynesian grammar has no such device. A quick look at all the expressions of Metoro when reading for Biship Jaussen reveals he never elsewhere said kiori. I am forced to go back to my photocopies (from Barthel's Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift) of Bishop Jaussens notes. Yes, I have made a mistake. It should be etore kiore, there is no mystery. The position of these sitting figures is centered in the 92nd manzil day, at the end of the Sirius manzil. Also from March 21 to the June solstice there are 92 days. Side a on the G tablet has 229 glyphs, or we could say there are 230 days on the front side of the G text (counting from Gb8-30). Ca6-10 represents Gregorian day 80 + 150 = 230 (= 366 - 136). The 'feathers' on their backs (7 + 7 + 6 = 20 of them) makes me remember the quartet in line Gb6. These arrive immediately beyond the heliacal rising of Sirius, i.e. at the beginning of July:
From July 1 (182) to August 15 (227) there are 45 days, a fact which probably was significant. What star rose heliacally in August 14 (to be compared with Sirius)? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
