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348 / 6 = 58 = 2 * 29, i.e. 348 = 12 * 29. This is hardly a coincidence. The measure of side b evidently is 6 combined with 29 (light and darkness). 6 * 29 = 174 is the number of the last glyph of the first half of the text on side b. In Cb8-6 (where 8 * 6 = 48 = 348 - 300) a vero 'kills' the first half of the cycle. Its number is 3 * 59 = 177 and a very distinct full stop tells us that we should not forget to count by the lunar calendar. No, that is a joke - the dot is only a consequence of my copying the glyph from Fischer. The following Cb8-7 is so broad that its left leg intrudes into the picture of Cb8-6. On side a we have measured 290 (= 10 * 29) as a possible interval relating two of the tagata rere glyphs:
But Ca2-11 has vanished from our discussion, it has no place in the two interconnected structures based on 168 and 182. 168 = 14 * 12 (side a) = 6 * 28 (side b), but 182 = 14 * 13 on side a while 174 = 6 * 29 on side b. 182 is not congruent with 6. 14 is a measure for side a, and Ca2-11 seems to mark day number 100 from Ca12-14 (where 12 * 14 = 168):
Saturn at Ca2-11 is located as the last day of the first 100 days from what presumably is winter solstice. Then comes a new season:
In A the perspective is how the day reaches the night. In C it is the opposite: how the 'night' reaches 'dawn'. 12 * 14 = 168 = 7 * 24, and with Rogo in Cb7-24 a new season is also born:
His open hand in front is rather abruptly turned into another entity, the disc of the new sun. We can count 7 * 26 = 182 at Cb7-26. Tagata rere and Rogo exhibit opposite traits, they indicate end respectively new beginning. Saturn at Cb7-25 becomes 175, which points at Cb8-4. 392 + 348 = 740 = 14 * 28 + 6 * 58 = 20 * 28 + 6 * 30 = 560 + 180. 392 + 168 (at Rogo in Cb7-24) = 560, which may explain why there are 8 'absent' glyphs on side a (in order to reach 400). |