Should we count ahead from vero in position 372 (= 12 * 31) to the end of side b we will reach the significant number 368. 372 + 368 = 2 * 370 = 740:
I think this could have been one of the intended 'readings' of vero in *Ca14-9. Uranus hated his children and there are not twice 185 days in a year. There are only 180 in one of the half-years. Where did those 5 missing days go? ... In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in the Theogony, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-armed giants the Hekatonkheires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes. The first 6 sons and the first 6 daughters of Uranus, together 12 'Titans', could have referred to the months in a year. Then there were 3 Hekatonkheires ('one-hundred-handed' giants) and also the (not enumerated) one-eyed Cyclopes. Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia ... Who were his youngest children down in Tartarus? If we assume they were 5 in number (= 370 - 185 - 180), then we can guess they were those who Nut gave birth to at the beginning of each year. Those children were known by everyone and therefore did not need to be mentioned: ... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys. On Easter Island the counting could have been slightly different, with 4 children imprisoned down in Tartarus instead of 5: 370 (Uranus) - 4 = 366. This could explain why there were twice 4 = 8 glyphs more in the text than 2 * 366 = 732, viz. those glyphs which 'were washed away' at the end of March:
There is no henua ('Land') in front in Cb14-11, beyond the 'Rear Spout' (Al Fargh al Thāni, manzil number 25).
The cycle around the Mamari tablet could measure twice the cycle of Uranus. After 2 solar years Uranus had moved ahead with 2 * (370 - 366) = 8 days compared to a standard calendar with 6 * 61 days in a year. "As far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens, Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato in Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls were judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment." (Wikipedia) Instead of a text cycle shaped like the letter O it was more like Q - with a 'tail' leading down to nowhere. This 8-day 'tail' may have been added to enable also the path of Uranus to be expressed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
