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Not pregnant becomes pregnant within either 6 lunar months or within 4 lunar months:

waxing becomes pregnant
36		139		33
	Ca2-11 (37)		Ca7-9 (177)
*6 29.5 = 177**
*210 = 14 15**

waning becomes pregnant
	116		64
Ca8-12 (211)		Ca12-12 (328)
*118 = 4 29.5**
*182 = 13 14**

392 = 13 * 14 (half 364) + 14 * 15 (7 months with 30 days in each).

Side a of Mamari measures out 7 solar months with 30 days in each together with 7 sacred months with 26 days in each.

392 = 14 * 28 = two squares of 14 = 13 * 14 + 15 * 14.

64 (beyond Ca12-12) + 36 (before Ca2-11) = 100 which could allude to 100 dark days when Sun is covered by earth. 100 + 300 = 400. The new fire is ignited at Ca2-11 (presumably by Saturn).

There ought to be 8 dark nights somewhere, in addition to those 392 which are documented. Maybe they like Venus when she is absent cannot be seen - therefore they are not seen in the text.

392 / 8 = 49 = 7 * 7 could be the square which measures the time of visibility. The 'land of 8' (Te Varu Kaiga) maybe should not be on a rongorongo tablet.

26 could be 20 + 6 (sun). Then, as a concession to the moon another 4 may have been added. 30 = 20 + 10 = 20 + (6 + 4), where 6 + 4 is 2 * 3 + 2 * 2 = 2 * 5.

Spring is 3 * 59 = 177 days and autumn is 2 * 59 = 118 days. Each 'flame' of the sun will be 59 days, and then a dark day completes the cycle to be 60. There are 3 flames in spring, equal to the numer of (female) fingers on the hand. One such finger (flame) measures 59 nights.

The thumb comes next, and it is a different thing. It is a single one (a male) and it is not a flame out in the open, it is a flame inside. It should be counted as 2 in order to enable drawing the path of the sun. In Ca2-12 the twofold nature of this type of 'limb' is indicated:


Aa1-34	Aa1-35	Aa1-36	Aa1-37	Aa1-38 (400)

Ca2-8	Ca2-9	Ca2-10 (36)	Ca2-11	Ca2-12
no hands visible in Ca2-9			one hand inside in Ca2-11
no hands visible in Ca2-9		rima	one hand inside in Ca2-11

(3 + 2) * 60 = 300 is equal to 180 (spring sun) + 120 (autumn moon).

Ca2-11 is a glyph which divides 177 into 36 and 140 (with Ca2-11 occupying an intermediate position not to be counted in either direction):

waxing becomes pregnant
36		139					30
	Ca2-11 (37)		Ca7-9 (177)	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12 (180)
*6 30 = 180**
*210 = 14 15**

Therefore, spring sun will be reduced from 180 to 140, from 9 * 20 to 7 * 20. This explains why spring also is measured as 7 (not only 3). And this reduction makes free 36 days which can be added to those 64 at the end of side a.

The beginning of a month is not when the new moon becomes visible, the beginning is 'inside' - not visible. Likewise the beginning of spring sun must be 'inside'. It seems to be measured as 100 dark days.

100 + 140 = 240, which added to 120 becomes 360.

100 + 1 (Ca2-11) + 140 = 241 (at Ca7-9), a number which ought to be changed - maybe into 240:

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	Ca7-8	Ca7-9 (177)	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12

	Ca7-13	Ca7-14	Ca7-15	Ca7-16

In the 3rd period Mercury 'inhabits' the first position, and Jupiter indicates how waxing now is in the past. A reversed great marama indicates where Venus is - in a waning phase.

In Ca7-11 Saturn is positioned, a moe sign shows he now will be in command. He is pregnant with atumn (125 days). Sun in Ca7-12 has the bottom triangular sign (not because we are at winter solstice but because spring sun abruptly has ended after 140 days of hard work).

100 + 140 = 240 at Ca7-8 (Mercury), where he is measuring the sun. 8 * 30 = 240 = 4 * 60, and the first 60 should be where sun is not yet present:

not present	present	total
*1 60**	*3 60**	*4 60**
60 (Moon)	180 (Saturn)	240 (Venus)
3 (Venus)	9 (Jupiter)	12 (Sun)

The first 60 days when sun is 'not present' are located, it seems, at the end of the 392-day long cycle:


Ca12-9	Ca12-10	Ca12-11	Ca12-12 (328)

Ca12-13	Ca12-14	Ca12-15	Ca12-16	Ca12-17 (333)

Ca12-18	Ca12-19	Ca12-20 (336)

Moon at Ca12-20 draws the line for the sun. 12 * 20 = 240.

The 8 glyphs beyond Ca12-12, ending with Moon at 336 (where 3 * 36 = 108 should be compared with 3 * 33 = 99 at Venus), seem to describe 8 dark days.

Vai in Ca12-14 has no longer the path of the sun around the oval but only a string.

392 - 8 (those dark days above) = 384 = 2 * 192.

64 = 8 + 56, and 100 = 8 + 56 + 36 = 8 + 92.