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Possibly 375 should be expressed as 3 * 75 rather than as 15 * 25. Another possibility is 37 * 5 = 185, which easily could have been used to hint at 365 - 180. If so, then probably indicating the beginning of the winter half of the year.
We can count to see which glyph is located at position 375 - 180 = 195 (at
which we can guess the summer half of the year will begin):
42 (on side b) + 90 + 63 = 195.
Did Metoro mean 'the last of the Rogo season'? And then maybe the 'turtle' (honu) comes next? Maybe Aa5-1 is located at Hanga Hoonu? Is the '4th viri' (Aa5-7) the 'harbour' of the 'old turtle'? The link 'here' leads to a series of pages:
I did not in the summary for viri in the glyph dictionary suggest that viri could depict 'empty eye-sockets', but I did so in the section for 'preliminary remarks and imaginations'. With 59 as the characteristic number for viri, moon comes to mind. Moon is one, yet has two 'faces', maybe the upper and lower parts of viri. Mata means both 'eye' and 'face'. The wing at the back of vae kore (which I have not commented upon in the glyph dictionary so far) forms part of a single 'empty eye-socket' and it is at left (in the past), possibly indicating the egg shell from which the bird has hatched. The last two pages from 'here':
The twin henua in Gb4-13--14 are straight at bottom but carry the sign of midnight at their top ends. Gb2-5 is the only other example of this in G:
We are here at Te Pou (Gb2-11) and the preceding glyphs have been translated as the days of the week, with Mars at Gb2-5, arranged immediately above Te Pou. The bottom of Te Pou is 'ghostly', but the top 'aflame', while conversely in Gb2-5 the top end is in the dark and the bottom in the light (illustrating the two 'faces' of Mars). |