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In Qb2-9 there is only one hahe glyph. It differs from those two in Y and also from the norm I have chosen for the glyph type:

hahe Qb2-9 *Ya1-3 *Yc3-7

Instead of a henua in the background 'falling on its face' (as in the pair of hahe in Y) we have in Q a henua in the foreground which is 'falling'. A 'string' sign is added (as if to say that the sun has been caught in a loop), but the sign exactly coincides with the line in the background.

Therefore, the impression becomes rather one of entaglement - the foreground henua 'beam' is inserted into the background henua. Such a sign could mean 'conjunction'. The rising henua in the background would then acquire a female sex. The falling foreground henua could represent spring sun and the rising henua in the background the autumn moon.

We should investigate to see if Qb2-9 (where 2 * 9 = 18) coincides with midsummer (or with day 240 counted from winter solstice).

 
 

In Q we have learned (cfr at ariga erua) to divide the number of glyphs by 2 in order to reach the number of days. Furthermore, 64 days (= 46 reversed) from the end of side b seems to be needed in order to reach the number of days counted from winter solstice:

*Qb5-35 *Qb5-36 (610)
369 = 610 / 2 + 64 = 305 + 64
day 1 (= 369 - 368)

Though we have seen alternative points to begin from (cfr at ika hiku):

144 452
*Qb5-17 (1) *Qb5-18 Qb2-15 Qb2-16 (454)
(146 + 454) / 2 = 300 days
138 448
*Qb5-23 (1) *Qb5-24 Qb2-11 Qb2-12 (450)
(140 + 450) / 2 = 295 days
126 460
*Qb5-35 (1) *Qb5-36 Qb2-23 Qb2-24 (462)
64 + 231 = 64 + 462 / 2 = 295 days

The beginning of glyph line Qb2 apparently is where the 10 months of sun are ending, and counting from 'Qb5-35--36 gives the best result:

126 446
*Qb5-35 (1) *Qb5-36 Qb2-9 Qb2-10 (448)
64 + 448 / 2 = 288 days

Rogo in Qb2-10 is vanishing. 448 can be read as 4 * 48 = 192.

 

192 is also, we should remember, equal to twice the numbers of mother earth (36 + 24 + 36).

To which should be added 64, equal to twice 32.

32 + 36 + 24 + 36 = 68 + 60.

2 * 68 + 2 * 60 = 136 + 120 = 256 = 4 * 64 = 8 * 32 = 16 * 16.

192 = 12 * 16 and 256 = 16 * 16, the difference is 64.

192 = 3 * 64 and 256 = 4 * 64.

Therefore 448 = 7 * 64.

448 + 128 = 9 * 64.

I decide to add a page in order to explain that 448 is no arbitrary number:

Rogo in Qb2-10 is vanishing. 448 can be read as 4 * 48 = 192. 448 is not a trivial arbitrary number.

 

Let us begin with the 'hourglass' form of a woman:

... Hourglass also refers to a body shape of women. In this shape bust and hip are significantly large with narrow waist resembling the shape of an hourglass. A common measurement of shape is 36 24 36. The three sizes are the circumferences of bust, waist and hips; usually rendered as three sizes: xx-yy-zz in centimeters or inches ...

If Mother Earth has these proportions, then 24 will immediately be recognized as the measure of her waist (from the tropic of Cancer to the equator there are 24º).

Though today 24º is no longer an exact measure, because the tropical belt is no longer as wide as when the ancient Egyptians once were building their gigantic pyramids:

(Wikipedia)

I suggest 24 once was found to be the correct measure of the waist of Mother Earth.

 
 

24 is the ancient measure of the path of the sun, remaining with us only as a not understood diurnal cycle of 24 hours. Only facts count today and they tend to be completely arbitrary. Analysis disintegrates and then the pieces can blow away. There will be nothing left to understand and we do not need to think anymore. Functions which are left unused will disintegrate too, muscles will disappear and the same goes for thinking. That is the economy of life.

In the rongorongo texts number 240 is associated with what appears to be the end of high summer. Counting 8 as the full measure, 240 will be perceived as 8 * 30. It takes the sun 8 months to reach his limit. If we multiply 24 degrees by 60 to get the minutes and then divide by 8 the result is 180, half a year if perceived as days.

Twice 36 ('bust' and 'hip') should be measures for the moon, sun's partner in the sky. The Mamari moon calendar has twice 36 glyphs, one set for growing moon and one for descending moon.

Adding 'bust' and 'waist' will result in 60º which is a reasonable measure for the band where people can live comfortably. Father north (beyond Shetland Islands) there will be a polar cap equal to twice 30º before 'the inhabitable earth' is once again reached (on the other side of the earth).

Certainly the ancient Egyptians knew there was inhabitable earth also south of the equator, and a band of 36º for the 'hips' ought to be an ideal measure. Sun has two wives, one far in the north and one south of the equator, according to the Polynesians who live mainly south of the equator.

Adding the 'hips' (south of the equator) to 60º (north of the equator) will give the 'length of Mother Earth' as 96º. Though below her 'hips' it was possible to move still farther south. This was the region of 'water', and it could be said that Mother Earth was 'standing in the water' (like the 3 youths of Nga Kope Ririva).
 

Counting 'Mother Earth' leads to the result that we have to count 96º twice because she is found also on the other side of the earth, also there with 36º below the equator and 60º north of the equator.

2 * 96 = 192 or equal to the number of glyphs I have reconstructed for the London Tablet (K).

This number, in turn, is only part of the cycle, because half the cycle should be 'in the water'. 2 * 192 = 384 (which happens to be only 0.5 more than 13 * 29.5). And 400 - 384 = 16. Therefore the total old cycle should have been 12 * 16 + 13 * 16 = 192 + 208 = 400 = 16 * 25.

If we contemplate the curious number of days in Q (368) it is rather unavoidable to think '36 times 8'. Multiplying 36 * 8 results in 288, the measure from day 1 up to and including the vanishing Rogo in Qb2-10:

126 446
*Qb5-35 (1) *Qb5-36 Qb2-9 Qb2-10 (448)
64 + 448 / 2 = 288 days

We can add twice 32 (i.e. 64) days to the measure for twice 'Mother Earth' (36 + 24 + 36).

32 + 36 + 24 + 36 = 68 + 60 = 128.

2 * 68 + 2 * 60 = 136 + 120 = 256 = 4 * 64 = 8 * 32 = 16 * 16.

192 = 12 * 16 and 256 = 16 * 16, the difference is 64. 192 = 3 * 64 and 256 = 4 * 64.

Therefore 448 = 7 * 64. In other words, there are 32 weeks from Qa1-1 up to and including Qb2-10.

The 'coinage' seems to be 16. 288 = 18 * 16 and 448 = 28 * 16. Furthermore, twice 368 = 736 (the number of glyphs, as reconstructed by me, for Q) is equal to 46 * 16. That is, 288 + 448 = 736.

Also in G and K is 16 used as the measure (16 * 29.5 = 472 respectively 16 * 12 = 192).

There are 16 fortnigths from Qa1-1 up to and including Qb2-10.

 

64 cannot be divided into weeks (or fortnights). 4 * 14 = 56 would fit, though, and (4 + 16) * 14 = 280.

There might be 8 special days at the beginning of those 64. In Q it means 16 glyphs beginning with *Qb5-35:

*Qb5-35 *Qb5-36 *Qb5-37 *Qb5-38
... ... ...
*Qb5-39 *Qb5-40 *Qb5-41 *Qb5-42
*Qb6-1 *Qb6-2 *Qb6-3 *Qb6-4
*Qb6-5 *Qb6-6 *Qb6-7 *Qb6-8
*Qb6-9 *Qb6-10 *Qb6-11 *Qb6-12

Haati in *Qb6-9 has a position resembling that of haati in Qb2-23:

126 460
*Qb5-35 (1) *Qb5-36 Qb2-23 Qb2-24 (462)
64 + 231 = 64 + 462 / 2 = 295 days

And hakaturou in *Qb6-10 resembles the figure in *Qb5-36. 5 * 36 = 180 and 6 * 10 = 60.

Ika hiku in Qb2-24 resembles ika hiku in *Qb6-6 (where 6 * 6 = 36).