All these glyphs, 472 of them, cannot possibly represent the
days of a normal year. There are too many of them. Therefore
we cannot take for granted that 180 glyphs from takaure
to the end of side b really should be counted as days.
100 + 180 = 280 = 10 * 28 is maybe only a number to indicate the
kind of season beyond glyph number 192, i.e. the time when the
proliferating Spring Sun no longer is present. Moon is still
shining from the rays of Sun, though, which can motivate 28.
10 is the number of 'months' when Sun is present. When he is
absent, away in the far north visiting his winter maid, it
should also take 10 'months', because the region north of the equator is a
mirror image of the region south of the equator. The cycle of
Sun should be 2 * 10 = 20 'months' long, and 20 * 18 = 360.
180 (= 10 * 18)
glyphs to the end of side b could therefore maybe
correspond to 180 glyphs at the beginning of side a. The end of side
b could illustrate the days when Sun is on the other side of the
equator and the beginning of side a correspond to the days when Sun is
'present' on Easter Island:
179
179
Gb3-1
(292)
Gb8-30
(472)
Gb8-30
(1)
Ga7-11
(181)
180
180
It is probably
significant that tamaiti (a Moon child with neither arms nor
wings) at Ga7-11 is the first glyph beyond
the 31st and last of the periods with
henua-kiore-maro (when Sun stands on earth and creates growth):
31
Ga7-5
Ga7-6
Ga7-7
Ga7-8
Ga7-9
Ga7-10
(180)
Ga7-11
Ga7-12
Ga7-13
Ga7-14
If this idea of a 'mirror' so to say placed at puo in Gb8-30
should be correct, then it would be of value for interpreting the
whole text of G, and we must therefore take a
closer look.
Tagata at
Gb5-6 marks glyph number 360, we know, and it divides 180 counted
beyond takaure into 68 + 112:
67
111
Gb3-1
(292)
Gb5-6
(360)
Gb8-30
(472)
68 (= 4
* 17)
112 = (4
* 28)
180 (= 4
* 45)
If there is a
'mirror' at puo in Gb8-30, then we can expect another
important mark of change in position 112 + 1 on side a:
111
67
Gb8-30
(1)
Ga5-2
(113)
Ga7-11
(181)
112
68
180
Henua at Ga5-2
is the central glyph of the 16th period, where a new glyph line is
beginning:
16
Ga5-1
Ga5-2
(113)
Ga5-3
In the following Ga5-3 the sign of henua is open at its top end, a feature shared
with only one other such glyph:
11
Ga4-11
Ga4-12 (96)
Ga4-13
Possibly the reason is to reduce the number of 'real' periods from 31 to
29. In the parallel K text there are
only 29 periods, and without a fully drawn border line the sign
illustrates
a 'ghost', only a fictional character.
The
periods of G and K move in parallel up to number 15:
15
Ga4-23
Ga4-24
Ga4-25
Ga4-26
Ga4-27
15
Kb1-4
Kb1-5
Kb1-6
Then they
diverge in the 16th
period, which is short in G but very long in K:
16
Ga5-1
Ga5-2
Ga5-3
16
Kb1-7
Kb1-8
Kb1-9
Kb1-10
Kb1-11
Kb1-12
Kb1-13
Kb1-14
Kb1-15
Kb1-16
...
...
*Kb1-17
*Kb1-18
*Kb1-19
*Kb1-20
*Kb1-21
*Kb1-22
Manu kake
ought to indicate the beginning of a new season and we have
just turned the tablet from side a to side b. The 7th glyph on side
b is a point of major change:
Gb1-6
Gb1-7
Kb1-6
Kb1-7
We have thus 'proven' that the
16th period in K is connected with a radical change. Number 16
is a number connected with 'final', and if we add 4 we reach
20 (as we have learned from the Hawaiian Moon calendar).
Henua in
Kb1-6 (where 1-6 alludes to 16) is drawn with an open top, i.e. it could mean there are
only 28 'real' periods in the K text. There are no
more such 'open' henua glyphs in K.
However, the
primary idea was probably to show how the head of kiore
is gone ('the ripe fruit has fallen').
There seems to be
cardinal points in the vicinity of both tagata at Gb5-6 and henua
at
Ga5-2:
Let us try with another obvious cardinal marker, viz. manu kake
in Ga4-21. It is glyph number 105 counted from Gb8-30, i.e. it
should have a corresponding glyph in position 472 - 104 = 368
(indeed a number which probably marks a cardinal point):
14
Ga4-20 (104)
Ga4-21
Ga4-22
Gb5-6 (360)
Gb5-7
Gb5-8
Gb5-9
Gb5-10 (364)
Gb5-11
Gb5-12 (366)
Gb5-13
Gb5-14 (368)
Gb5-15
Gb5-16
The 3 identical fishes have
each a 'feather' sign inside, not visible on the outside, i.e.
presumably they are
meant to be not light but black.
But on the other side of the tablet,
on side a (the front side of the tablet) the glyphs which are
preceding manu kake (in Ga4-21) evidently are in a season
bathing in
sun light. Another manu kake stands at its beginning, in
period number 1 after the 'ignition' by the 'fire generator' (haga
in Ga2-26):
Ga2-21
Ga2-22
Ga2-23
Ga2-24
Ga2-25
Ga2-26
1
Ga2-27
Ga2-28
Ga2-29 (60)
Ga3-1
Ga3-2
Ga3-3
Ga3-4
Ga3-5
368 - 4 = 364 (vaha
kai in Gb5-10) and if we add 4 to 105 it becomes 109:
15
Ga4-23
Ga4-24
Ga4-25 (109)
Ga4-26
Ga4-27
From which we can
expect henua in Ga4-25 to also be important.
