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My parallel work with the glyph dictionary has high priority and at the same time the work fuels the translation process. I must secure the foundation of the translations process by way of the 'high-level' part of the glyph dictionary, and the 'high-level' part must be correct - for instance not stating more than what is possible to confirm.

Therefore, in GD12 (hetuu) I have revised this part and with red marked (only now and here) the new text:

4. The circuit of the sun around a 'year' (i.e. half-year) can be pictured as a circle, which at the same time then easily can be used to allude to the disc of the sun.

A circle is measured by its radius (or by its diameter). The circumference of the circle has a length equal to its diameter times π.

Counting glyphs in the text of E (Keiti) I stumbled on the fact that both of its sides have 314 glyphs, a number which I interpreted as 100π. Not many rongorongo tablets have all their glyphs still intact, but I could continue by identifying what seems to be the same number symbolism also in the texts of A and H:

Keiti (E)			Large Santiago (H)			Tahua (A)
side a	314	100π	side a	*648	200π + 20	side a	670	200π + 42
side b	314	100π	side b	*648	200π + 20	side b	664	200π + 36
sum	628	200π	sum	*1296	400π + 40	sum	1334	400π + 78
Numbers with asterisk (*) mean that the numbers result from a painstaking and time-consuming process to recreate the number of missing glyphs in those parts of the text which have been destroyed.

However, it is not absolutely certain that the intention of the creators of these texts was (just) to document the numeric value of π.

This reminds me that I must continue (at some point when there is an opportunity) with the process of recreating the number of missing glyphs in H.

In GD13 (rei miro) I have tried to clarify the text in a few places:

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The Keiti calendar has more rei miro glyphs to offer, for example:


Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3	Eb3-4	Eb3-5

Eb5-4	Eb5-5	Eb5-6	Eb5-7	Eb5-8

The rei miro glyphs are here used at the beginning of respectively at the end of the summer season (as defined by the equinoxes).

Here the old version said: '... at the beginning of respectively after the end of the summer season.'

The new version introduces already here the idea about a difference between the structure of the cardinal points on one hand and the calendar structure on the other.

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A 5th and last rei miro in the Keiti calendar is located in the 7th half-month period:

7
7	Eb3-20	Eb3-21	Eb3-22	Eb3-23	Eb3-24	Eb3-25
12
12	Eb4-7	Eb4-8	Eb4-9	Eb4-10	Eb4-11	Eb4-12

The legs in Eb3-25 are not in touch with henua, a feature shared with Eb4-12 in the 12th period. Measuring from Eb3-20 up to and including Eb4-12 we find a quarter (6 half-month periods).

Eb3-21 is a glyph relating the 7th half-month period to Eb6-5 in the 2nd part of the 24th period, and they thereby together define the 1st quarter.

Here the old version had: '... Eb4-12 we find a quarter (6 half-month periods), i.e. from spring equinox to midsummer.' Respectively '... in the 2nd part of the 24th (new year) period, and they thereby together define the 1st quarter (from new year to spring quinox).' The cardinal points are no longer mentioned. It is the calendar structure which is important.

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Having established that in a calendar for the year rei miro glyphs were used in connection with the cardinal points (solstices, equinoxes), it is time to once again take up the question about what meaning GD13 glyphs have.

The four seasons, once originating from the cardinal points, is not a state of nature which 'primitive' man accepted without deep thinking.

In South America, for example, there were myths which referred to the beginning as either a time when there was constant darkness or when there was constant light, and how it came about that this still world started to move around as we can observe it today.

Other myths described how the seasons were moving too slowly or running to fast, as when Maui had to slow the sun down in order to give his wife enough time to cook their meals.

The old version had: '... in a calendar for the year (or rather in a calendar covering summer + winter) rei miro glyphs were used in ...'

Respectively: 'The four seasons defined by the cardinal points (or for that matter the divisions of the day) is not a state ...'

To mention the day is not making anything more clear, on the contrary.

The distinction between cardinal points and the calendar hopefully is more clear in the new version.

A further improvement is the hyperlink 'return' (now introduced as a general function in the glyph dictionary), which makes it easier to move backwards retracing all the steps in a single jump to the natural (depending on circumstances) origin:

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It now dawns upon me that 180 days for summer is no rough approximation, it may instead be a rather good measure for the length south of the equator. Earlier I calculated from a few of my pocket calendars and reached:

north of equator	'winter' (1st quarter)	'spring' (2nd quarter)	'summer' (3rd quarter)	'autumn' (4th quarter)
366 days	89 days	93 days	94 days	90 days
south of equator	'summer' (3rd quarter)	'autumn' (4th quarter)	'winter' (1st quarter)	'spring' (2nd quarter)

Summer (the 3rd quarter) is approximately 5 days shorter south of the equator. (365 - 5) / 2 = 180.

If summer is defined as the period between spring and autumn equinox, we get 90 + 89 = 189 days south of the equator and 93 + 94 = 97 days north of the equator. The difference becomes slightly more pronounced. Yet I have, when calculating the numbers in the table used a rather simple and unsophisticated method.

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