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After the excursion to calendar I we are now back on the trail labelled 'shown to be true' - referring to the reversed vaha kai in Yc1-3 and probably meaning 'head in the east' ('birth'):

 

Before we can go on to calendar II (and the reversed vaha kai at *Yc1-3) it is necessary to once again look at the first 180 days (as I have interpreted it) of calendar I:

180 days
Yb3-1 Yb3-2 Yb3-3 Yb3-4 Yb3-5 Yb3-6 (60)
Ya1-1 Ya1-2 Ya1-3 Ya1-4 Ya1-5 Ya1-6 (120)
Ya2-1 Ya2-2 Ya2-3 Ya2-4 Ya2-5 Ya2-6 (180)

Moon rules days number 60, 120, and 180. Which is to expected because practical time is regulated by the moon (the tides, woman's cycle etc). The system of double-months is based on the phases of the moon.

But there is something strange here. For instance is there a quartet of growing moon crescents before midsummer. Should we read them as signs of growing sun? In Tahua there is a quartet of hakaturou glyphs (and the same type of glyph is used also in the parallel H/P/Q texts):

Aa1-2 (48) Aa1-3 Aa1-4
3 * 24 = 72
Aa1-5 Aa1-6 Aa1-7 Aa1-8 (192)
4 * 24 = 96

Moon rules the 'night', not the 'day of spring'. This wake up call should make us notice other odd signs which are difficult to associate with spring. Pure in Ya1-4 is 'square' among the 180 days of what I have in a preliminary way suggested to be spring, because it is at day number 100 in my structure. We can recollect that this day is special. It is a quarter of 400 and it is a day of Saturn also in C we have seen:

waxing sun
36 139
Ca2-11 (100) Ca7-9 (240)

Pure is very much like the reverse of vai with 3 'fire flames' (probably meaning spring). Pure is the dead shell from which the occupant has fled.

The kiore at 120 and 180 are obviously well fed, which - we have learned - refers to the waning phase, not to the season of voracious feeding. The henua 'staffs' in front of them are drawn thin and open at the bottom (and not straight at the top but concave), other signs that these glyph may represent something else than spring.

Instead it ought to be a dark season. Possibly what we are reading about is a different kind of spring, for instance spring in Hiva (on the other side of the earth). When Sun moves through the Underworld during half a year, after having disappeared through vaha kai in the west, he should continue travelling across a dark country. The structure of this 'nighttime' journey is not known, and the best way to depict it is to begin by using the well known first phase of Sun's journey during our own spring. This is his first phase after having returned from the Underworld and his first phase after entering the Underworld ought to be similar. But the signs must show darkness rather than light.

There is one more sign we must notice, viz. the odd maitaki glyphs:

Yb3-4 (40) Ya3-1 (195) Ya3-6 (220) Yb1-6 (255)

These are not normal maitaki glyphs, but a strange combination of maitaki and inoino:

maitaki inoino

A reasonable interpretation is to say that in the Underworld there is no daylight, therefore the normal maitaki sign cannot be used.

Taken all together we remember the twice 21 assessors in the Underworld helping Osiris to judge the souls of the dead in the Hall of Two Truths. These two truths possibly refers to the two phases for the Sun, one with 10 stations à 30 days up in the light where we can see him and another phase where he is invisible and down in the Underworld. His time there ought also to be 300 (though not days but nights). The the total cycle becomes 10 * 60 = 600. Half his time he is in Hiva, half with us who are living.

 

 6 times 10 = 60 nights before 'noon' seem to balance the 40 day and nights beyond:

Ya1-4 (100) Ya1-5 Ya1-6 (120)
Ya2-1 Ya2-2 Ya2-3 Ya2-4 (160)
Ya2-5 Ya2-6 (180)
Yb1-4 Yb1-5 (190) Yb1-6 Yb1-7 (200)
Yb2-1 Yb2-2 (210) Yb2-3 Yb2-4 (220)

The empty shell of the turtle (pure at 100) indicates the end of the 'water'. Then a Rei kicks into action ('That he might cease remaining inactive') a chain of events leading up to midsummer and beyond. And the structure above shows that 175 is the center. 2 * 175 = 350 is a measure equal to a quarter of 1400, i.e. the Moon dictates the center.

The first quarter of a 'year' is half 180 = 90 nights and we can recognize the 'barred sun light' symbol of the Mayas:

Ya1-1 Ya1-2 Ya1-3 (90) Ya1-4
2 Uo 3 Zip

Kai+ragi in Ya1-2 (80) seem to be balanced by a single entity in Yb2-7:

Yb2-5 Yb2-6 Yb2-7 (295) Yb2-8

At left in Yb2-7 there is a suggestion of waxing limited by a straight vertical line - ragi limits waxing. 295 means the end of 10 lunar months (for the Sun). Taken together with the surrounding glyphs we will have a short representation of the year:

10 waxing
Yb2-5 Yb2-6
10 waning
Yb2-7 (295) Yb2-8

These 20 days (or nights) are outside the 280 when moon is shining. They cover the time beyond 180 + 60 of light and the 40 of Saturn's darkness.

Once again there is a vai glyph with 3 'crescent signs', but this time with a reversal:

Ca2-11 (100) Yb2-5 (285)

285 - 100 = 185, the summer half of the year.

At the end of his nighttime journey the sun possibly does not return to us but to his winter maid, and in the Underworld a similar situation may prevail:

Hiva
Yb3-1 Yb3-2 Yb3-3 Yb3-4 Yb3-5 Yb3-6 (60)
winter
Ya1-1 Ya1-2 Ya1-3 Ya1-4
spring
Ya1-5 Ya1-6 (120) Ya2-1 Ya2-2 Ya2-3 Ya2-4
Ya2-5 Ya2-6 (180)

The end of the back side is the time when Sun is in Hiva. Then in Ya1-1 there is a new beginning and the 3 unusual signs may refer to the 3 'stones' of the Turtle. Light is generated here and growing at a slow pace while the sky is brightening (Ya1-2), but there are no toes yet (fins are better than feet until land reappears).

The 3 stones are also equal to those Nga Kope Ririva rocks outside the southwest corner of Easter Island. This is were the first manu tara eggs are important.

But we must not forget the fat kiore glyphs, the open 'midnight' henua at left in Ya2-5, etc. It is not a season of waxing.

I decide to add a page with at least some of the above discussion:

... His time there ought also to be 300 (though not days but nights). The the total cycle becomes 10 * 60 = 600. Half his time he is in Hiva, half with us who are living.

Part of is time Sun is in Hiva, and then he will also spend part of his time with his winter maid. We need an overview.