The beginning of line Ca7 is located 249 days after December 31 (instead of 249 days after the March equinox when Antares rose heliacally):
Metoro's o te marama eono (of the 6 'lights') could mean we should understand each of these crescent signs as representing a month (and not a 'night'). 6 * 31 = 186 and by adding 168 the sum becomes 354 (= 12 * 29½). Maybe we should count 80 (from January 1 to March 22) + 392 in order to reach 472 (= 16 * 29½) at the end of side a. From September 6 (249) to the end of side a there are 392 - 168 = 224 glyphs (presumably 32 weeks or 16 fortnights). 224 + 80 = 304, from which we then can subtract 186 in order to reach 4 lunar synodic months. 304 - 186 = 118 = 4 * 29½ = 472 - 354. The measure 186 days reminds me of the Pachamama tresses: 
Possibly it was meant the Sun sum should be rounded upwards from 185½ to 186 and the Moon sum rounded downwards from 214½ to 214. Notably number 11 has Significantly many wedge marks. If we should discard this 34, then the total becomes 185½ + 180½ = 366. Or we could first take away 4 * 0.5 and then also 34. 400 - 2 - 34 = 364. Numbers are intrinsically ambivalent - they can be used everywhere and for all purposes. Pachamama has her skirt covered with 177 circles, and each of them with a double rim. 2 * 177 = 354 (= 6 * 59). Or if we should consider the 'cup' part of her as covered with 177 days, each described as a circle with a double rim, then the tresses in her 'cap' part are necessary to cover the whole year. Although 177 + 400 = 577 we should probably use the method for counting her bottom - viz. to divide the number (of circles) by 2. A wedgemark has 2 lines and 177 + 200 = 377. This is satisfactory, because 'one more' will then be the cycle of Saturn. Alternatively we could count 177 + 214 = 391, with another 'one more' needed to reach 392 (= 377 + 14). Presumably such things were known to the rongorongo scribes. The design at left in Ca7-1 is similar to the structure on Pachamama, with a bottom part and a top part. The upper part is a rhomb (2 wedges combined in a special way) and I think it describes the domain of 'Earth'. Sun was placed 'beside earth' (which has 4 corners): ... Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth. The proper place to connect the numbers on one side of the midline with the numbers on the other side should be where the 'bivalve shells' are joined, at the conjunction of their male and female halves. And a structure cannot be judged by a part, its whole must be considered. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
