1. My deduced date for the 1st glyph on side b is 'June 1:
And the manzil Qalb al Akraab (ruled by Antares) ends 231 days from the beginning of the manzil Sheratan:
Akraab surely means the Scorpion and according to Allen "Antares alone constituted the 16th manzil, Al Kalb, the Heart, one of the fortunate stations ..." From 'June 1 to 'January 3 there are 368 - 152 = 216 days. Counting from the end of side b and backwards 216 steps will lead us to the pair Gb1-26 and Gb2-1:
Judged from the numbers of the manzil system we could at Gb2-1 have reached to the end of Al Naam, to the end of Land. On Easter Island the heliacal rising of Antares ought to have been a sign of summer ahead. My suggested date 'June 1 at Gb1-1 could therefore possibly be interpreted as the day which south of the corresponds to the beginning of summer north of the equator (June 1). Although the correspondences in the manzil system suggests 'June 1 could correspond to January 2. According to Manuscript E the explorers sailed from their old home (Hiva) in April 25 and reached Easter Island in June 1. In the following table I have copied Barthel's data from his The Eighth Land:
Barthel has mechanically translated the month Maro with June, the month Anakena with July, etc. If there is a correspondence between glyphs and dates, then we ought to be able to find the departure from Hiva at a place around 37 (= 152 - 115) positions earlier than Gb1-1. 231 - 37 = 194:
In Ga7-24 we can imagine 'a good Land' (maitaki) at left with a kind of 'fruit' in front (presumably the promise of a new such land). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
