3. I am indebted to Barthel (in his The Eighth Land) for the general idea of correspondencs between the kuhane stations on the island on one hand and the kuhane stations in time on the other. But nowhere (as I remember it) in his book does he suggest a possible correspondence between the kuhane stations on one hand and the rongorongo texts on the other. Presumably it would have stretched the contents of his book beyond its boundaries, because the idea must surely have been in his mind. In the text of G I have provisionally located Te Pei at the beginning of side b of the tablet:
Winter solstice I have found to lie some 160 glyphs later, with the synodic cycle of Jupiter (399 days) probably marking a kind of end point of the old year, around half a month before the arrival of tamaiti at Venus:
240 = 8 * 30 and 160 = 8 * 20, and 400 = 8 * 50. Beyond Jupiter in his 'fishy outfit' (Gb6-16) there are 2 lunar months (472 - 399 = 73 days) remaining on side b. Counting the ordinal number of the glyphs in G we must let the beginning be with the last glyph on side b:
Gb8-30 has to be counted twice in order to reach for instance Jupiter at number 399. There are only 471 (= 314 * 150 %) glyphs on the tablet, but 472 days in a calendar with 16 lunar synodic months. Also Gb8-30 (where 8 * 30 = 240) is a Thursday. |
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