Given this firm background defined from when in rongorongo times the major stars were rising with the Sun - and possible to map unto the Gregorian calendar by converting their RA dates counted from March 21 - we should once again look at the main structure of the C text. Fact is that side b carries few glyphs compared to side a. This must be a part of the overall design. 348 (number of glyphs on side b) equals 12 months with 29 days in each. We know 314 (= 100 * π) was probably used to define the length (number of glyphs) of the text on the G tablet (viz. 1½ * 314 = 471). Counting from the December solstice and 314 days ahead we will reach to 314 - 11 = Gregorian day 303 (October 30), where in Cb1-13 there is a pair of joined nuku figures. I have below updated my earlier presentations: 405 (Cb1-13) + 183 = 588 and 588 - 365 = RA day number 223 (= 303 - 80), and then 303 + 181 - 365 = 119 (April 29):
It may have been thought that it was the midnight culmination of Denebola (β Leonis) which motivated the position of October 30 to be 314 days after December 21 (355), because then the culmination of Denebola would be 4 nights later, in May 3. I have described the culmination of Debebola by drawing a straight line across the name and its Gregorian day number counted from the previous January 1 (i.e. 488 = 123 + 365). In the night of May 3 and among the nakshatra stars which were close to the Full Moon (if this occurred) was e.g. Zuben Elakribi (δ Librae). It could be argued that I ought to have put my information of the culmination of Denebola together with these nakshatra stars instead of at the heliacal position of the Sun. I have no good answer to this argument, but the heliacal date (May 3) carried more weight for me than the nakshatra date (November 3). I live north of the equator. Metoro (south of the equator) suggested a coconut tree (niu) in Cb1-15 and I have pointed out there could have been a connection between this glyph and primarily Kochab (β Ursae Minoris) - but secondarily also with Bharani (41 Arietis):
When in the night of May 1 (121 = 11 * 11) Kochab was (ideally) at the Full Moon, then it could have been a reminder that there were 50 days (= 355 -305) to the solstice. The unusual form of Cb1-13 is not much different from that in Cb9-28 - in June 2 i.e. 303 - 153 = 150 days earlier:
Had we instead counted heliacal dates, then the difference would have been 334 (November 30) - April 29 (119) = 215 = 365 - 150. Should we regard 150 days (= 300 / 2) as a Sign in the intended structure of the C text, then we could equally well use the heliacal as the nakshatra view:
There are no more glyphs in the C text of the type at Cb1-13 / Cb9-28. Indeed there is only one more example in the whole corpus of rongorongo texts:
But possibly we should compare with the pair Cb8-18 and Cb8-20, with the midnight culmination of Denebola not 4 but 8 nights later (although now at the other side of the sky roof):
The distance from Cb8-19 (in the center between the pair of nuku glyphs) to Cb8-27 (where Denebola culminated at midnight in May 3) is 8 days (possibly alluding to the dark nights of Venus). The distance between Cb1-13 (October 30 and 314 days after the December solstice) and the culmination of Denebola in the night of May 3 (123) was 365 + 123 - 303 = 185 days.
First the 'twins' appear to be separated and then they will loose their 'eyes' (mata). No, the 'twins' in Cb1-13 are distinctly of another kind than the rest of these nuku glyphs. They look regular as if drawn in daytime. There is a dot below nuku in Cb9-27, maybe to pinpoint June 1 (the first day in the solstice month). 740 (total number of glyphs) - 619 (Cb9-27) = 121 - possibly alluding to May 1. Though the dot is a little to the left of the nuku midline, perhaps intended to indicates May 31 (151) as the true beginning of the solstice month. 172 (June 21) - 151 (May 31) = 3 weeks. Absence of mata implies a dark time. From the beginning of side b to nuku in Cb9-27 there are 619 - 392 = 227 days (perhaps alluding to π expressed as 22 / 7). The 'Janus' nuku glyph in Cb1-13 was located 314 days after the December solstice (leaving 50 days to day 364) and from the eyeless nuku twins in Cb9-28 to the end of side b there were 121 nights. 227 + 121 = 348. Possibly Cb1-13 is to be counted as 11 * 3 = 33. October 30 (303) + 33 = 336 (December 2) - i.e. equal to the helicacal date at the last glyph in line Cb9. At Cb1-13 Metoro said eaha te nuku erua and maybe he meant there was a crack in time here, at day 314 from the December solstice.
If there was a Sun season which stretched beyond the end of side b it could have ended with Cb1-13. The glyphs support a continuity from the end of side a and into the beginning of side b. Maybe the back side would then carry only 348 - 13 = 335 nights. On the other hand could a more reasonable number be 348 - 23 = 325 nights:
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