 What is this? Here we cannot receive any help from Small Santiago, because its text continues whereas the text in Keiti takes a new turn from Eb2-5 onwards. In what I have called period no. 1 in the (presumed) calendar of the year in Keiti there are 20 glyphs (not accidentally, I believe) and Eb2-4 is no. 10. Is it a coincidence that we can count to 10 in the feathers on top of the king's head (4) and to the right (6) in the canoe? I have searched for comparable sequences of glyphs in different texts on different tablets and arrived at one such (in Mamari) which might help us:
Though written in a somewhat different 'dialect' we can recognize these glyphs. I am confident that we can classify Cb3-4 and therefore also Eb2-6 as variants of the zigzag type of glyph which when modified with 'eyes' and 'cross' presumably means kava. Zigzag goes the roots of ginger? Now, without 'eyes' and 'cross', perhaps the zigzag means the path of lightning? The intoxication caused by kava drinking may be likened to be struck by lightning? In Keiti I 'read' the open top and bottom of Eb2-6 as a way to connect this glyph with Eb1-41. Is there a pipe open between heaven and earth through which lightning strikes? |
