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Do I have to change anything in the glyph dictionary? That is a question I need to ask myself time and again. Firstly, I have noticed a need to have a summary at each GD, a summary which is easy to reach by way of a hyperlink from the first of the pages:
Indeed, it started as if automatically already at the end of the text for henua ora, and I needed only to write about GD11-GD13:
Here I had to balance and not say too much. I have a suspicion that manu rere at Thursday and at Saturday may represent the sun (and not Jupiter and Saturn). 5 / 7 * 420 = 300 = 30 * 10 is a fact which indicates that there is an equivalence between Thursday and the 10th and last month of the sun. The 6th 'flame' of the sun and Friday (Venus) would accordingly be a time of the 'dead' sun, maybe 'the residences for the future and the abdicated kings' (the 27th and 28th stations of the kuhane, Papa O Pea and Ahu Akapu). The 7th 'flame' (Saturn) would be the 29th station, Te Pito O Te Kainga - the dark new moon. The 8th day of the week - the coming Sunday - is hidden inside the 7th day somewhere.
Also here a balancing act is needed. They had two 'years' not a year. The geometrical trick with a 7th flame of the sun is therefore questionable. Moreover, there were 10 solar periods for a year, not 6. The 6-flame geometry seems, however, to have been used at Aa1-32, with a prominent triangular straight peak at the top followed by a little gap (reading counterclockwise):
The 10th period of the day has two heads, as if representing Saturday, the dark new moon incorporating next week. There may, however, be a fortnight (and not just a single week) 'ahead'. The new year will have two 'years'. If we discount the reversed tapa mea periods (no. 1 and 6), there will be 8 periods for the day, just as there are 8 days in a week. The last day (period) has the future. We notice how the last true face of the sun has ordinal number 32, corresponding to the number of periods in the G calendar for the year. 32 may represent the end. The day calendar in A begins with glyph no. 16, i.e. 16 may represent the beginning. 8 periods for the day and for the week. 16 glyphs for the day means 2 glyphs per period. 42 glyphs in the calendar of the week according to H can be converted to 21 periods (by using the same method). The 21st station of the kuhane is Hanga Hônu. It belongs to the moon, because at autumn equinox there should be a rei miro glyph representing the change of direction and the short standstill of the sun. A week is one half of the total (fortnight). Likewise 21 is one half of the moon year (420 nights). I am becoming quite fluent in talking in several dimensions at once.
Secondly, I ought to continue with the work for reconstructing the number of glyphs in H:
With red I have marked the task which I thought was due now. However, to my surprise I discover that we have already decided the matter:
There were probably once ago two glyphs in H where P has one:
Still, a question mark within parenthesis must remain, *54 (?). |