TRANSLATIONS
When checking all the numbers I found that I had made a curious mistake, assigned the label Ab7-25 instead of the correct Ab7-26 to one of the 4 viri. A new table, therefore:
Only the distance from Aa8-26 to Ab1-1 (60) now remains as an interesting number and that may be a coincidence. If we change the measuring rule to include both end glyphs we can, however, still suggest:
But then we must change the measuring rule to exclude the end glyphs for 20 * 29:
In other words: the measure 26 * 29 (= 754) includes Ab7-26 and Aa8-26, while 20 * 29 (= 580) excludes them. The end glyphs both have ordinal number 26 in their lines which may be a signal. If we disregard line a1 (because 90 = 48 + 42 and because of my earlier suggestions) then line a8 could be regarded as line no. 7 on side a. But that means we should change 483 into 483 - 90 = 393 and 754 into 754 - 90 = 664. 664 is a non-trivial number because it equals 8 * 83 and 83 is the closest whole number to 1334 / 16 = 83.375 while 16 * 83 = 1328 = 1334 - 6. If we include Ab7-26 and include Aa1-1 and count the glyphs between them we arrive at 144 (= 84 - 25 + 84 + 1), i.e. 59 + 85 = 122. 144 = 4 * 36, i.e. four squares with 6 measures a square with 12, which looks like a good model for the year; 4 quarters of the sun (6) equals 12 months. As we have one viri at Ab1-1 (which I doubt is a coincidence) we ought to look closer on Aa1-1:
This is a variant of GD42 with no 'knee', the only one in Tahua. I suggest that the 'knee' had to go because the creator wished to express '1' by way of half the 'double-claws' in viri. I believe that the beginning of side a represents the beginning of the solar year. In Aa5-7 the first complete viri of the solar year appears:
I have numbered starting from Aa4-63 because that is where the internal long parallel with side b begins (at Ab5-1). Redmarked are 26 and 46 because 1334 = (26 + 20) * 29. The old bird at 46 is GD23 which I earlier have identified as meaning 'ending' (= reversal and new beginning). Evidently viri is here outside - given that Aa4-63 is inside - the measure of 26. However, another indicator says that Aa4-63 is outside (and viri no. 26) - because counting from the beginning of side a (from Aa1-1) we have 314 (= 100*π) as Aa4-64:
Another 'proof' of viri being inside is obtained by counting from the beginning of line a5:
Aa5-1 is GD42 which I earlier have identified as a marker of beginning. Excluding Aa5-1 viri is no. 6, the solar number. Adding this 6 to the earlier 20 we receive the wished for 26. I now suggest that Aa5-17 may contain the missing second part of the viri that is embedded in Aa1-1:
Aa5-17 is an aberrant form of GD26 with the 'head' as a separate part, the only such in Tahua (in the same way as Aa1-1 is an aberrant unique form of GD42). Furthermore, we recognize hakaturu, the point of turnaround, as Aa5-18 (no. 350 from Aa1-1):
As a last argument in this complex counting maize, let me point out an important finding: That GD11 seems to symbolize the midsummer sun (here in the pattern 3+1):
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