next page

previous page

up

home

I have now inserted a new GD into the glyph catalogue, corresponding to the 'half a viri' type of glyph. The 'front page' of the additional GD at present looks like this:

There are glyphs which do not fit in my catalogue structure. I need another page to continue the catalogue with more 'doors'. Then there are glyphs which I am unsure of because they are, it seems, partly destroyed. Most of the partly destroyed glyphs, however, can be identified. Those who can't must be sorted separately. And then there are glyphs incorporating features that also later might necessitate further 'doors'. On the whole however the catalogue 'doors' seem to work rather well. glyphs which do not fit the catalogue structure (see also below!) glyphs which seem to be partly destroyed and cannot be identified glyphs incorporating features which do not fit the catalogue structure

This is the beginning of a new page for the glyph catalogue. The 'doors' will have '1' before their numbers to indicate that they belong to the first additional page, e.g. GD111.               BACK

Its number became GD119 and just a few glyphs are registered there so far:

The investigation into what words Metoro, objectively seen, used at different GD has already given us unforeseen important spin-off results.

Let us now return to our trail. We have seen that GD33 was used as a clew by the creator of the Tahua text (by which phrasing I suggest that whoever incised the glyphs on the Tahua tablet quite possibly was another person who just copied the text from an older rongorongo board).

The 4 main GD33 glyphs in the Tahua text function as corners marking beginning and end:

We have not measured the two distances between Aa4-72 and Aa1-15 yet. Let us do that:

This time we do not have to think in terms of 'in between' respectively 'from ... to and including'. The counting is done in the normal way, i.e. we can either count beginning after Aa1-15 and continue up to and including Aa4-72 to reach 308 or we can include Aa1-15 but exclude Aa4-72. The same two possible methods can be used to measure 1026.

The strange method which we used together with viri would here lead to obviously wrong results, because the sums would be odd rather than the wished for even numbers.

While 308 = 4 * 77 does not appear interesting it surely is notable that the longer measure, reaching 1026, hardly is a coincidence. I guess the 'author' of the Tahua text intended to reach the exponent 10, or expressed in less civilized form: 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2.

Perhaps we should interpet 308 as a number reached by having the exponent of 2 as 8? It works out rather nicely into:

2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 + 52 = 256 + 4 * 13

We leave that for the moment and return to the question asked: 'In which way is this new entity [GD119] related to GD26 (tara) and GD43 (hoea)?'

It would be too premature to try to answer that question now, however, because we must wait until more information is available. Instead, and as a further support for the later work to be done, I have compared Metoro's words at GD26 and GD43 to see if the preliminary labels tara and hoea are good or whether they should be changed. The method used is the same as we just saw described in detail for viri.

Tabulated results for tara as a label for GD26:

Word → glyph: 19 / 26 = 73 % and glyph → word:  19 / 38 = 50 %. The firstmentioned measure tells us whether tara is a good label or not, and the result is acceptable. The second measure informs us that GD26 is a rather good predictor for Metoro having said tara at GD26 glyphs, much better than GD33 as a predictor for viri.

We should also note that Eb6-3 is explicitly called 'tara', in spite of the fact that the glyph clearly belongs to GD43 (hoea). We must remember this when we try to resolve the question about the interrelationships between GD33 (viri), GD119, GD26 (tara) and GD43 (hoea).

Special is Aa5-76 where we can see a 'break' in the arm of the 'seating' person, 'breaks' inside glyphs should be noticed.

Tabulated results for hoea as a label for GD26:

Notably Ab1-1 is one of our well-known viri and Ca1-1 belongs to GD26, not to GD43. We should also notice that Ca1-1 is the first glyph on side a of Marama, i.e. GD26 may have a function similar to viri. The top of GD26 looks like GD119. Cb1-21 is very strange and not comparable - as far as I have seen - with any other glyph.

Word → glyph: 5 / 9 = 56 % and glyph → word:  5 / 32 = 16 %.

56 % is acceptable, I think, although this is the lowest result so far (viri = 75 % and tara = 73 %). 16 % informs us that Metoro often used other words than hoea at GD43.

It is presumably worthwile to show that also the GD43 glyphs are quite variable, which may explain why the result glyph → word is so low. The variability of the GD33 glyphs (which we have already seen) also gave a low measure (11 %).

The GD43 glyphs and Metoro's words: