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Another and final page in the series 'looked at closer':

 

 

The implications of the hard work done so far on the beginning of side a of Tahua are potentially crucial and we must therefore investigate if day 1 and day 369 (= 177 + 192), according to the proposed calendar, really are represented by affirming glyphs:

67
Ab8-84 Aa1-1 Aa1-69 Aa1-70 Aa1-71 Aa1-72
108 = 3 * 36 109 177 = 3 * 59 178 179 180 = 3 * 60

108 has zero in the center, 180 has it in front. 8 * 84 = 672 and at day 180 there is 172 (1-72), the difference is 500.

Glyph number 1 according to this imagined calendar will be Ab7-61. There are 84 glyphs also in line b7, and 84 - 60 = 24:

22 82
Ab7-61 Ab7-84 Ab8-1 Ab8-84
1 24 25 108 = 3 * 36

Glyph number 177 + 192 = 369 will be Aa4-10 (because 108 + 261 = 369):

Aa4-7 Aa4-8 Aa4-9 Aa4-10 (261) Aa4-11
366 367 368 369 370

261 = 761 (as in Ab7-61) - 500. If we take away 'fire' (rima, 5) only darkness will remain. 261 is 'one more' than 260 (= 13 * 20). 261 is also equal to the famous 9 * 29. And, we should notice that 9 * 19 = 171 (cfr Aa1-71). 261 is a Moon measure, 171 a Sun measure.

The pair in Aa4-10 resembles the pair in Aa6-45, 200 glyphs later:

Aa6-42 Aa6-43 Aa6-44 Aa6-45 (461) Aa6-46

 

And then the two next pages:

 

 

Meaningful relationships betwen different series of numbers and what the glyphs seem to tell appear if we change the day number at Aa1-68 from 175 to 176:

 
Aa1-61 Aa1-62 Aa1-63 Aa1-64
169 170 171 (= 9 * 19) 172
Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa1-67 Aa1-68 Aa1-69
173 174 175 176 177 = 3 * 59
Aa1-70 Aa1-71 Aa1-72
178 179 180 = 3 * 60

In spite of the 808-glyph long sequence ending with Aa1-64 - presumably with 2 glyphs per day - there is evidence of another calendar, where each glyph is counted as 1 day:

22 82
Ab7-61 Ab7-84 Ab8-1 Ab8-84
1 24 25 108 = 3 * 36
67 185
Aa1-1 Aa1-69 Aa1-70 Aa1-71 Aa1-72
109 177 = 3 * 59 178 179 180 = 3 * 60
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Aa4-7 Aa4-8 Aa4-9 Aa4-10 (261) Aa4-11
366 367 368 369 370
Aa6-42 Aa6-43 Aa6-44 Aa6-45 (461) Aa6-46

We will try to lean on this one-glyph-per day calendar. And we will therefore count days from Ab7-61 (which picture obviously illustrates the potential still not released). After 180 days the season of 'fire' (5, rima) lies ahead and the spring season has ended (tagata combined with kai, Aa1-71).

 
 

In Aa1-66 the 5 feathers at right are ordered with 3 at the top and 2 at bottom. We can guess that spring (3) is at the top and autumn (2) at the bottom, and from there conclude that time moves downwards, it may be the force of gravitation:

Aa1-64 Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa1-67 Aa1-68
364 365 366 367 368
Aa1-69 Aa1-70 Aa1-71 Aa1-72
177 (= 3 * 59) 178 179 180

In Aa1-72 the order is reversed, 3 is at bottom and 2 at the top. Growth moves upwards. The 'fire' (Sun) descends from north towards Easter Island during spring, beyond high summer some other method of transporation is used, it is a work performed by the power of Moon.

Aa1-66 should be at winter solstice, and the day number can therefore be read as 366. In Aa1-69 (day 369) a dramatic change is depicted - we can guess it means we are changing calendar, from a one-glyph-one day calendar beginning 364 glyphs earlier than Aa1-64 to another one-glyph-one-day calendar beginning with Ab7-61. Time is measured by the moon and her time comes only when spring sun has left.

Therefore the text jumps not only from one calendar to another but also in time from winter solstice to the end of spring. Is this not a 'proof' that time is measured only from the end of spring to winter solstice? For the Polynesians were quite aware of the latitudes stretching both north and south of the equator. The journey of the Sun towards south is from very far in the north to very far in the south. It takes ca 180 days and that is the whole journey. Moon, instead, has as her function time (not space), and time is measured from high summer to low winter. It also takes ca 180 days and these should be documented in a calendar. So I fancy.

If we search for glyph number 1 according to the calendar which has day 368 at Aa1-68 it will be glyph number 365 on side b. Because 368 (at Aa1-68) will be reduced to 300 at Ab8-84 (number 664 on side b).

Ab5-36 Ab5-37 Ab5-38 Ab5-39 Ab5-40
298
Ab5-41 (365) Ab8-84 (664)

But we must now hurry on beyond Aa1-72 in order to come closer to our first vaero glyph (Aa2-14).

 

Let us get an overview. Quite possibly we should count with 2 glyphs per day up to Aa1-64:

 

296
Ab5-41 (365) Ab5-42 Ab8-83 Ab8-84 (664)
1 2 299 300
1 148 150
60
Aa1-1 Aa1-2 Aa1-64 Aa1-64
301 302 363 364
151 30 182

I have not written that these 300 glyphs represent 300 days.

But I have suggested a continuation beyond Aa1-64:

Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa1-67 Aa1-68
365 366 367 368
183 184

If we continue to count 2 glyphs per day up to glyph number 369, then day number 183 is a suitable place for Rogo (is he the Wolf God?). It would imply a further 180 days before we come to Ab5-41. But such is not the case, there are 182 days before Ab5-41:

 

354
Ab1-1 (1) Ab1-2 Ab5-33 Ab5-34 (358)
1 177 179
Ab5-35 Ab5-36 (360) Ab5-37 Ab5-38 Ab5-39 Ab5-40 (364)
180 181 182

In other words, there are 364 days up to Aa1-64:

 

360
Ab1-1 (1) Ab1-2 Ab5-39 Ab5-40 (364)
1 180 182
296
Ab5-41 (365) Ab5-42 Ab8-83 Ab8-84 (664)
1 2 299 300
183 148 332
60
Aa1-1 Aa1-2 Aa1-64 Aa1-64
301 302 363 364
333 30 364

364 * 2 = 728, and 664 (side b) + 64 = 728. On side a there are 670 glyphs and 670 - 64 = 606, which seems to symbolize how Sun at the end of side a turns around. In Aa8-80 either the preceding 600 or the preceding 300 seems to motivate a release (top) of a new season, and it ought to be a season of Sun because of the pair of rhombs at the bottom and the single 'tamaiti' at the top:

 

Aa8-74 Aa8-75 Aa8-76 Aa8-77
595 596 597 598
298 299
Aa8-78 Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81
599 600 601 602
300 301
Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (670)
603 604 605 606
302 303

1334 = 2 * 364 + 2 * 303 = 2 * 667. Viri in Ab1-1 is depicted as a little child and the journey in front is measured by 2 glyhphs per day.

I decide to add something of the above in an extra page from '300 at Ab8-84':

 

 

Glyph number 300 at Aa8-84 does not imply that it is also day number 300. Instead much evidence suggest we should count with 2 glyphs per day:

296
Ab5-41 (365) Ab5-42 Ab8-83 Ab8-84 (664)
1 2 299 300
1 148 150
60
Aa1-1 Aa1-2 Aa1-64 Aa1-64
301 302 363 364
151 30 182
Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa1-67 Aa1-68
365 366 367 368
183 184

The closed mouth vaha mea at Aa1-68 indeed can be read as a combination with puo - the light is gone. Because it is located at the end of the year and it is day number 366, it seems:

360
Ab1-1 (1) Ab1-2 Ab5-39 Ab5-40 (364)
1 180 182
296
Ab5-41 (365) Ab5-42 Ab8-83 Ab8-84 (664)
1 2 299 300
183 148 332
60
Aa1-1 Aa1-2 Aa1-64 Aa1-64
301 302 363 364
333 30 364
Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa1-67 Aa1-68
365 366 367 368
365 366

At the beginning of side a the difference between counting 2 glyphs per day from the little viri in Ab1-1 and counting 1 glyph per day from inoino in Ab5-41 has diminished to 32. We can here see 'in action' how two different ways of counting merges at the cardinal point - the end of the year.

Hakaturou in Aa1-64 identifies one of the alternative ends of the year and here the junction is. 364 is the measure.

3 * 64 = 192 and 364 - 192 = 172.

36 * 4 = 144 = 12 * 12 and 364 - 144 = 220.