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Having established the late in the year character of moko and its opposition to the young mago we will move on to Mamari, where there are lots of moko glyphs:

Ca4-5 Ca4-11 Ca4-23 Ca10-8 Ca10-16 Ca10-23
Ca11-5 Ca11-15 Ca11-22 Ca11-26 Ca11-30 Ca12-1
Cb6-11 Cb6-18 Cb6-26 Cb7-2 Cb7-6 Cb7-9
Cb7-14 Cb7-21 Cb8-5 Cb10-16

There are 12 moko on side a and 10 on side b, and all are fat (or pregnant). Those on side b are apparently of a different kind than those on side a (excepting the last one in Ca12-1). If we put moko in Ca12-1 together with those on side b there will be a balance in number: 11 + 11 = 22.

11 is 'one more' than 10 and is therefore expressing the idea of 'birth' (while on the other hand a shark lurking in the deep can be identified with 'death').

 
 

Let us begin from the beginning, from the 3 moko glyphs in line Ca4:

Ca4-5 Ca4-11 Ca4-23
Ca10-8 Ca10-16 Ca10-23 Ca11-5
Ca11-15 Ca11-22 Ca11-26 Ca11-30

The rest of them (8 after having pushed moko in Ca12-1 on to side b) seem to form another group.

We can imagine a pattern:

5 11
Ca4-5 (81) Ca4-11 Ca4-23 (99)
6 + 12 = 18

Not only is there one 6 followed by two (giving 3 * 6 = 18), but the first moko - obviously of a different kind because of ihe tau and by cause of the strongly drawn outline - has ordinal number (counted from Ca1-1) equal to 9 * 9 = 81 (the reverse of 18).

Furthermore, the last moko (Ca4-23) has ordinal number 99. If we count with moko as a creature at the end (in contrast to the young ferocious shark) then 9 is an appropriate number.

Glyph line Ca4 is interesting and we need a few extra pages.

 
 

Line Ca4 has 29 glyphs and we can therefore guess its structure could be built with the month as a model. The preceding line ends with Rogo:

Ca3-21 Ca3-22 Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25

In the koti chapter this Rogo glyph was found to be probably referring to winter solstice.

Later, at maro, it was 'proven' that the 'nut' in Ca1-26 - probably the 'head' of the previous 'Sun King' - was connected to manu kake in Ca14-26 (because 14 * 26 = 364):

25 49 312
Ca1-26 Ca3-25 (76) Ca14-26 (389)
50 314
364 = 14 * 26

However, as usual nothing in the rongorongo texts is simple, and 314 was also found to be the ordinal number for Rogo (in Ca3-25), given that we begin to count from Cb5-17 - the glyph immediately following another Rogo (this one with a high stature and with his body depicted as caught in a net or something similar):

side b side a
109 238 75 314
Cb5-16 Ca3-25 (76) Ca4-1 Ca4-2
0 314 315 316

There are 392 + 348 = 740 glyphs on the Mamari tablet. Possibly 28 has been used as a measure on side a because 14 * 28 = 392. On side b we can count 12 * 29 = 348.

392 = 78 + 314. We know the value of π, but what is 78? Considering the nature of Ca4-2 its ordinal number can possibly be explained as 6 * 13 = 78. Moreover, 42 (as in 4-2) when added to 36 equals 78. But 78 is also = 26 (cfr Ca1-36) + 52 (= 2 * 26). Ca4-2 has a key role to play.

 
 

New year comes with Rogo, and 52 glyphs from Ca1-26 the old head has began to sprout:

46
Ca1-26 Ca3-22 (73)
Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25 Ca4-1
Ca4-2 (78) Ca4-3

There is no glyph Ca3-26, but Ca4-1 is number 26 counted from Ca3-1. Presumably the dark 'nut' represents 'Old Sun' and the light 'nut' in Ca4-2 'New Sun'. Hau tea in Ca4-3 has two 'eyes' (like Janus), and it stands on the doorstep to the new year.

Relying on number 16 as the last glyph of a sequence we can continue 13 (= 78 / 6) glyphs ahead. But already with the 12th glyph (Ca4-15) we encounter another such hau tea (identical with the first one):

Ca4-4 Ca4-5 Ca4-6
Ca4-7 Ca4-8 Ca4-9
Ca4-10 Ca4-11 Ca4-12 Ca4-13
Ca4-14 Ca4-15 Ca4-16 (92)

If we add Ca3-22--25 (following the lead in the Hawaiian Moon calendar) the 16th glyph will be renumbered 20.

Possibly ordinal number 92 at Ca4-16 (where 4 * 16 = 64) means there will follow 300 days of Sun from Ca4-17 to the end of side a. 348 (the number of glyphs on side b) + 92 = 440 = 20 * 22 (and 22 can be a sign of π because 22 / 7 = π).

With Ga4-17 a new 'season' with 13 glyphs arrives and the pair of hau tea glyphs have the normal single 'eye' in front:

Ca4-17 Ca4-18 Ca4-19
Ca4-20 Ca4-21 Ca4-22 Ca4-23 Ca4-24 (100) Ca4-25
Ca4-26 Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29

 

 

Already early when I tried to group the glyphs into manageable sequences I decided Ca4-26--29 should belong in the following sequence rather than be closely connected with the preceding glyphs - the mago pair in Ca4-28--29 is reflected in another similar such pair in glyph line Ga5:

Ca4-17 Ca4-18 Ca4-19
Ca4-20 Ca4-21 Ca4-22 Ca4-23 Ca4-24 Ca4-25
Ca4-26 Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29
Ca5-1 Ca5-2 Ca5-3 Ca5-4
Ca5-5 Ca5-6 Ca5-7 Ca5-8

The last 4 glyphs in line Ca3 should be counted as the beginning of next line Ca4 and likewise Ca4-26--29 should belong to the following line Ca5.

With 'planetary colours' applied we can see that number 25 (a square of Saturn the fire maker) is equal to the black moonless night number 25 + 4 = 29:

Ca4-20 Ca4-21 Ca4-22 Ca4-23 Ca4-24 Ca4-25

Saturday comes before the day of the Sun King (26) and number 25 must belong to Saturn, but at the same time it must be the 29th day in the month because of the addition of 4 glyphs at the beginning.

Likewise number 26 can be understood as equal to the 30th day, a day which will alternate between being light and dark - the lunar month is 29½ nights long. Sun is present only during half the year too, alternating between being present and absent.

 
 
Ca4-20 Ca4-21 Ca4-22 Ca4-23 Ca4-24 (100) Ca4-25

Moko in Ca4-23 is located in a day of Jupiter. The following peculiar manu rere has no eye and 3 maro feathers are sprouting up front. We can compare with the similar constellation of glyphs in Gb3-13--14:

Gb3-10 Gb3-11 Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16

The strange haati sign at left in Gb3-14 is similar to the bottom part of the strange 'double wings' in Ca4-22. It could mean 'leaving and arriving' (cfr summary at haati).

The hole in Rogo (Gb3-15) could correspond to the 'ball' at bottom in Ca4-21. But there are holes also where the eyes should have been in the manu rere glyhs. Maybe the 'ball' at bottom in Ca4-21 should rather be compared with the 'ball' being born at the bottom of hanau moko in Gb3-13.

There are similarities, but there are also differences. 8 + 8 'feathers' in Gb3-10, glyph number 236 counted from Ga3-6, can be compared with the pair of 'feathered' glyphs in C:

4
Ca4-20 (96) Ca4-25 (101)

8 * 29.5 = 236 is a Moon measure and likewise 8 + 8 = 16.

6 + 6 = 12 is a Sun measure, and 420 = 7 * 60 could mean the '7th flame of the sun' (cfr at tagata), i.e. Ca4-20 completes the cycle of Sun in a conjunction with Moon.

5 dark nights later a new light is ignited, and 'one more' cycle will begin. It is a day of Saturn. There are 5 'feathers' in front.