Evidently February 29 is included in the Mamari description of the Gregorian calendar:
March 1 will then be day 61 and the presence of number 61 in H / P / Q becomes more understandable - it suggests a year with 6 * 61 = 366 days, a leap year.
12 * 29½ = 354 and hakaariki are at left in Ca13-11, they have presumably done their work. 4 nights later is a niu, and then a fresh vae which connects to the earlier such glyphs (see the previous page). March 14 can be written 3-14:
If we should add a Mensis Intercalaris to February 23 (54) in an ordinary year we will reach March 17. 54 + 22 = 76 = 59 + 17. But by counting also Ca13-2 (February 29) we will reach March 16 (at Ca13-18). This should be done every 4th year. In ¾ of the years Ca13-2 could theoretically regarde be at March 1 and Ca13-18 would then represent March 17.
This is the end of the 13th glyph line. Only half a glyph is drawn beyond the vero (spear) in Ca13-19 and 15 * 29½ = 442½. |