TRANSLATIONS
The hyperlink 'All glyphs in line a1 are intact' leads to:
These 36 glyphs are probably important for us. The structure 6 - 18 - 12 is not disturbed by number juggling dependent on the area of the tablet. 18, we can presume, is the summer half of the year and 12 + 6 the winter half. Glyph number 25 (immediately beyond summer) has a normal henua, while the end glyph of winter (6) is of the 'midnight' type:
The 'fruit' at left resembles that in Ab6-42:
The meaning, I guess, is to show how last week continues with this week. Yet Metoro interprets Ab6-42 (notice the numbers) as involving hora (summer):
The planets are also a kind of hetu'u, and why could they not be associated with the different seasons of the year? If disorder characterizes the names of the months - no longer securely connected to the stars which rose in early morning and gave their names to the months - then the planets could be connected with the seasons too. Metoro's hora could mean 'open up' (etc) too, and ka hora tona henua implies it is henua which is opening up (and obviously he is referring to the left part of the glyph):
This type of glyph (left 'fruit' + henua) can be a female counterpart to the male Rei, a slow opening up of Mother Earth, evolving into a blossoming summer, announcing the glorious time in front. The 1st glyph among the 36 may at left have this sign:
Mars and Venus in Ab6-47 respectively Ab6-54 (nos. 6 respectively 13 of the 16) have two 'faces' (phases) in the sky and the nuku rua glyph type very well could illustrate this fact. In Large Washington Tablet there is only one glyph of this type:
Its location (29) indicates darkness (which indeed also characterizes Venus sometimes and - to a lesser degree Mars). Head up should mean light and head down darkness. The 15th glyph (Saturn) has the gesture of 'waving goodbye', which perhaps should be compared with the 15th glyph among the 36. Although there is a similar gesture also at left in number 20:
The meaning is the opposite of kai, I believe. First comes growing (kai) then comes leaving (when the leaves will fall to earth). The result is a dry branch (cfr at right in 20). We can once again look at the 1st of the 36. The ghostly character in the middle is the continuation of the left 'sun' (the previous year I suppose), which promises to develop into a new similar year. Yet the ghostly character is not the new year - he is the old man with a gesture of farewell, fare you well my son / sun:
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