8. In the text of G the glyph type kiore + henua has clearly been used to define a coherent long stretch of sequences beginning with Ga3-5 and ending with Ga7-10:
Excepting the special case Gb8-2 (at One Tea) they are all on the front side of the tablet, and there are 31 of them. The last one has ordinal number 180 (counted from Gb8-30), which possibly indicates ⅔ of the way to day 300:
The redmarked numbers in my table above are all multiples of 4. And Te Kioe Uri is the 4th kuhane station. With a total of 16 stations (in G) number 4 will correspond to the end of the first 'quarter'. The 'open mouth' sign with 9 'feather marks' in day number 300 could be a glyph play referring to how at the horizon in the southwest (Toga) an 'open mouth' (vaha kai) is waiting for the 'open mouth' of spring (vaha ora, the opening leading from winter to summer). If we add the time beyond One Tea (Gb8-22) to the end of side b, then Ga7-10 will be glyph number 28 + 180 = 208 = 4 * 52 = 13 * 16, which could explain the otherwise rather peculiar 45. The cycles of Sun (13) and Moon (16) are joining at Ga7-10. |
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