5. With Lono on Hawaii located at winter solstice we can guess the 'birth' of a new year also on Easter Island should coincide with a solstice - when old Sun has stopped moving he must be dead. Furthermore, it would be strange if it was summer solstice, the best part of the year with a maximum of light (life). Rogo in Eb7-1 should be at winter solstice if he had the same role as Lono on Hawaii. I here assume that Metoro knew what this type of glyph represented. Such an important character he ought to have known. The pairwise order of the glyphs suggests we must let each month be represented by 2 glyphs, for instance like this:
The Polynesians did not have our names for their months, of course. And I have therefore put the names of our names above within quotation marks. Another reason to use quotation marks is that when Lono reappeared in December on Hawaii - north of the equator - it would be high summer on Easter Island. If they on Easter Island had let their calendar for the year commence at the same time as on Hawaii, in December, it would be 'July' on Easter Island. I guess such calendars indeed could have existed. But it could not be the time of the year when the new Sun 'child' was born. |
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