A triplet of viri glyphs accompanies the beginning of the 20th line in H, making it impossible to overlook these glyphs. So they have to be important:
This is where H has the 'singularity' earlier discovered:
The type of glyph in Pb9-33 could depict an 'interregnum', a kind of abstract henua chamber with a 'person' inside and on his way. There are few similar glyphs, but on the Santiago Staff (I) we can find one, although here with mata inside in a real henua (like Osiris inside his coffin tree):
Furthermore, in the text on the very much damaged O tablet there is evidence that sometimes only the outside of the Tree is drawn visible:
Death (ihe tau) is near also here, or as the Hawaiians expressed it, koke-na-make (where make probably is the single version of Makemake): ... the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun. Whereas, over the next two days, Lono plays the part of the sacrifice. The Makahiki effigy is dismantled and hidden away in a rite watched over by the king's 'living god', Kahoali'i or 'The-Companion-of-the-King', the one who is also known as 'Death-is-Near' (Koke-na-make). Close kinsman of the king as his ceremonial double, Kahoali'i swallows the eye of the victim in ceremonies of human sacrifice ... The open mouth (vaha) swallowing (kai) the 'eye' (of Rogo) is quite realistically drawn, if it belongs to a fish:
Pb9-31 is glyph 1023 in the text, which number can be decoded as 33 * 31, where 31 probably points at Sun (by way of the number of days in a solar month) and 33 to the ideal number of days from the return of the Pleiades to the solstice. 1023 is also the position of the H 'singularity' and possibly we should count 10 * 23 = 230 (= 460 / 2). Given these expressive clues it is possible to coordinate Pb9-33 (once again 33) and the 'missing glyph' in H with glyphs at the beginning of the a2 lines, where there are rau hei ('mimosa branches'):
I guess the story could be how winter's dry vegetation is only a temporary death. There is a return by way of the next generation, when 'fruits' (buds) once again will be born. 1296 (= 648 + 648) - 1022 (Hb8-15) = 274 = 2 * 137.
Clearly it is intended the reader should find number 137, because this is also the difference between my estimated number of glyphs on the H tablet and those on the P tablet. My earlier guess of a connection with day 137 in the manzil calendar is probably not correct. The number ought in such a case rather be an even number and then 136 (for the time length before Sheratan 1). Another possibility is to add 193 + 137 = 330 (Gregorian November 26):
330 + 33 = 363, and possibly on Easter Island the end of the old year was defined by adding 35 to the heliacal reappearance of Antares. 329 + 35 = 364 (and 193 + 35 = 228 and 329 - 193 = 136). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
