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The last two pages presenting Calendar I:

 

Next in the calendar follows 5 + 7 = 12 glyphs which I guess should be counted each as 5 days, i.e. with two glyphs needed for 10 days:

60 days
Ya2-7 Ya2-8 Ya3-1 Ya3-2 Ya3-3
Ya3-4 Ya3-5 Ya3-6 Ya3-7 Yb1-1 Yb1-2 Yb1-3 (240)

The first 6 glyphs of line Ya2 correspond - according to my structure - to the 3rd of the 60-day periods. Above I have coloured the glyphs according to my planetary chart, and Mars at Ya2-7 looks like a vai glyph which has lost its 'crescent marks', possibly alluding to the fact that spring is over. 3 double-months evidently were used as the standard measure for the duration of spring, and it was expressed by a hand with 3 fingers in a gesture meaning 'eating' (kai) - i.e. growing:

In Ca7-9 the kai gesture is reversed because the season of growth is over, and 140 glyphs earlier a vai with 3 crescent marks is exhibited in front of tagata rere:

waxing sun
36 139
Ca2-11 Ca7-9
3 * 59 = 177

Therefore we can assume that Ya2-7 by glyph shape and number (2 * 7 = 14) informs us that spring has ended. Mars is here because he 'personifies' spring and his presence here was not possible to accomplish unless line Ya2 had been given enough glyphs to reach number 7.

Mercury comes next in the order of the week. Glyph line Ya2 has 8 glyphs and the reason may be partly due to a wish to reach the 'perfect' number 8 at such an important time as when spring is ending. It also has the effect of giving Mercury two adjacent glyphs (Ya2-8 and Ya3-1), which can be interpreted to mean that the 2nd half of the year is beginning here. Double glyphs frequently occur during the 2nd half of the year, seldom in the first half.

Ya2-8 is at day 190 and Ya3-1 at day 195. If we count with 192 (= 12 * 16) days for the 1st half of the year, then the double Mercury glyphs are needed to define this limit. Between Ya2-8 and Ya3-1 there is a change from one half to the next. Change means movement and quicksilver symoblizes movement.

Ya2-8 is apparently a transformation of the preceding Mars glyph. The gap at bottom is the result of what looks like an organic growth from bottom left upwards and down again at right. Basically, though, it is a haga rave glyph turned upside down:

Ya2-8

haga rave

Gb5-12

At the end of the year (at Gb5-12) haga rave has its normal orientation, but in high summer when sun abruptly must change his direction from waxing to waning the inverted sign has here been used.

In Ya3-4 the birth (hanau) of the waning season is illustrated. Instead of the normal head there is a sign of the moon. It is a day of Saturn, the 'costume' the old spring season assumes when it no longer is 'living'. But from its 'carcase' the new season of the Moon will rise.

The idea of 'turning around' is illustrated by the fact that the bottom half has been twisted around. The open-ended leg should be at left, not at right. The old season should be at left and in the following fish manu kake we can see the normal position. Sun has his old head at left and it is no longer 'living', it ends with a beak which is open.

Mercury has also the strange Yb1-1, and I guess we here have a moa head, not much different in kind and general meaning from the one who is crying out triumphantly in the Mamari moon calendar:

Yb1-1 (230) Ca6-28 (168)

168 is the ordinal number counted from Ca1-1. If we add the time from winter solstice to the beginning of the 'front side' of the calendar, we will reach a day number quite close to 230. In G day number 230 is where the 'back side' is beginning:

Ga8-25 Ga8-26 Gb1-1 (230) Gb1-2 Gb1-3

The creator of Y has surely endeavoured to put Mercury at day 230. And, as it happens, the glyph labels - which I once, now a long time ago, defined and started to use - also agree completely.

To the 3 double-months of spring is added a double-month for high summer, and it seems to be a double-month connected with Jupiter and Venus.

 

 

The last part of calendar I will also have 60 days if 2 glyphs are needed for 10 days:

40 days
Yb1-4 Yb1-5 Yb1-6 Yb1-7
Yb2-1 Yb2-2 Yb2-3 Yb2-4
20 days
Yb2-5 Yb2-6 Yb2-7 Yb2-8 (300)

Here I have, though, divided the time into 40 + 20 days, because the two Saturn glyphs (Yb1-4 and Yb2-4) are identical. Such an arrangement, I think, serves to define a season.

Beyond Venus in the week comes Saturn. After Saturn comes Sun, and the last 20 days has a vai glyph with some kind of growth in front. It has 6 'feathers' in front but only 5 at left.

The last glyph of the calendar is once again given to Mercury. 100 days have been added to those 200:

Ya2-6 Ya2-7 Ya2-8 (200)
Yb2-6 Yb2-7 Yb2-8 (300)

The end is not defined exactly, the glyph disappears at right. Similarly, at day 260, the Mars glyph also vanishes in front:

Yb1-7 (260) Yb2-8 (300)

The glyphs have deliberately been engraved so. Mars is a suitable planet for number 260, because this number seems to allude to the two halves of summer (when Sun is at his best). 40 days of those 300 are instead days of Saturn:

40 days
Yb1-4 Yb1-5 Yb1-6 Yb1-7
Yb2-1 Yb2-2 Yb2-3 Yb2-4

Here there is a sign in form of the vanished bottom halves of glyphs. 5 of the glyphs have this sign. With 5 days per glyph it means 25 days - which we know is short for the time of Saturn. He is in charge of creating a new 'fire', and we can interpret the half-visible glyphs as illustrating submersion - only their top halves can be seen.

If the old fire has been submerged by a deluge of rains, then of course a new fire must be alighted. There are no 'fingers' visible in Yb1-5 (Sun).

The creation of a new fire in this time of darkness is a matter involving Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus. Mercury is standing at day 265, an important number suggesting 100 days left to day 365 where the year will end. 265 is also 260 (old fire) + 5 (new fire).

The extraordinary Jupiter glyph is first of all illustrating the concept of koti - the little 'rising fish' in front seems to symbolize the new fire. The tree-like overshadowing arm at left has a stringlike thumb instead of the normal thumb. It means we should not count rima (5) but 4. Possibly it means that 4 'quarters' are in the past (spring sun has 3 and Venus has 1). The thumb as a single string seems to illustrate Venus rather than Sun. It is the thumb who creates next generation. The prominent elbow probably is a sign of kava. Venus at Yb2-3 is given a waning moon crescent, and during the last quarter of the moon next month will be in preparation.

My imagination adds: For 40 days and nights it rained heavily and the earth became totally submerged. In the ark of Noah all the land creatures were sheltered until earth would show again above the waters. The expression 'day and night' presumably means we should count 2. I.e, we need twice as many glyphs as usual to compensate for the dim light.

 

Maybe vai with a double rim refers to land having risen above the waters:

tagaroa
kioe

Vai meaning the sea cannot be clearly defined without the contrasting land. Flood implies ebb.