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Ha9-8 is a hura glyph. This statement means it has both visible and numerical traits which fit with the other two such glyphs we have studied in H.

The numerical pattern which becomes visible from these 3 hura glyphs reveals much of interest. First we can count to 354 from tagata rere hura in Hb11-50 to glyph number 300 on side a:

side b side a
53 299
Hb11-50 Ha6-25 (300)
1 354

Presumably we should begin to read on H from some point towards the end of the back side of the tablet because such is the method which apparently was used on G. If we divide 54 by 3 (which is reasonable because there is room for so many glyphs on H), then the result, 18, could be a sign alluding to the path of Sun (because 20 * 18 = 360).

According to my planetary chart (cfr at gagana) Mercury 'rules' ordinal number 50 and Saturn 'rules' ordinal number 25. From Wednesday to the end of the week (Saturday) there are 4 days. The pattern of the week is 3 + 4 which also refers to spring respectively autumn. Thus the stretch of glyphs from Hb11-50 up to and including Ha6-25 seems to refer to the time of the year when Sun is 'absent' (visiting his Winter Maid). The glyph Ha6-25 is probably tagata haati ('a completed cycle' 'is going away'), because such is the parallel in P:

Ha6-25 Pa5-69

300 / 3 = 100 and 354 / 3 = 118 = 18 + 100. If we multiply 11 * 50 and subtract 6 * 25 the result is 400.

The 4 'balls' of hura in Hb11-50 could each represent 118 / 4 = 29.5 nights. In other words, the 'winter' could stretch for 4 lunar months. 'Summer' would be 12 - 4 = 8 months which is in agreement with the idea that Sun has only one 'limb' (whereas Moon is measured up to 2 * 8 = 16 months). But this is for the moment just a guess without any 'proof'.

Beyond Saturday comes an important Sun day, because the distance from Ha6-26 to tagata rere hura is equal to twice the number of glyphs in G:

938
Ha6-26 Ha6-27 Ha6-28 Ha6-29 Hb11-50 (1243)
942 = 3 * 314 = 2 * 471 1

The lower half of a hura sign is found in Ha6-28 (where 6-28 alludes to 2 * 314). The upper invisible half is not burned away (also literally) as in the surrounding glyphs, the invisible half is not present:

Ha6-26 Ha6-27 Ha6-28 Ha6-29 Ha6-30 Ha6-31 Ha6-32

The absent top half of hura is therefore a sign to be interpreted. A 'proof' that it is not destroyed by the arriving 'fire' but in fact absent is offered by another similar glyph (Ha9-8) which comes half 314 glyphs later:

153
Ha6-28 (303) Ha9-8 (457)

Half 314 (= 157) is though not to be counted from Ha6-28 but from Hb6-26:

side b side a
53 299 155
Hb11-50 Ha6-25 (300) Ha6-26 Ha9-8 (457)
1 354 157 = 314 * 50%

Although Mars represents the god who brings 'fire' from sky down to earth in spring it is Sun who counts, who is the 'fire' arriving. He has ordinal number 26 and Mars has ordinal number 28. But Mars can serve the function of indicating the time when Sun arrives from the north.

On the front side of H this time evidently is described as 100 days from the beginning of side a. In the first day of the 'Sun-is-present season' the newly arrived 'great fire' burns away the top of hakaua (making rain) and vae (Sun going away) and the day is ending with the half hura sign:

Ha6-26 Ha6-27 Ha6-28 (303)
(303 - 300) / 3 = day 1

A short season it appears to be, because already 156 (= 457 - 301) glyphs later there is a sign of raindrops (hua poporo), where the glyph is designed to be similar to the half hura in Ha6-28:

Ha9-1 (450) Ha9-2 Ha9-3 Ha9-4
13 glyphs are missing here
Ha9-5 Ha9-6 Ha9-7 (456) Ha9-8

Nuku in Ha9-7 is probably a sign meaning 'Sun-is-absent' (a nuku glyph has no rima). Then, in hua poporo combined with hura - which is the first glyph of the new season - we can see 'droplets' hanging, and then visibility goes down to zero (13 glyphs are totally absent).

456 / 3 = 152 and 152 - 100 = 52 can be a symbolic number for the length of summer (Sun-is-present) - which we remember from the calendar in K.

If the reasoning above is correct, then the season of 'Sun-is-absent' will begin with 'hura poporo' (which seems to be a fitting label) in Ha9-8. Together with the season 'Sun-is-present' the duration is 3 * 314 = 942 glyphs, which though not necessarily has to correspond to 942 / 3 = 314 days.

785 = 314 * 250%
Ha9-8 (457) Hb11-50 (1243)
786 / 3 = 262 1

 

 

The Maya Indians had an advanced positional system for counting with 20 as its base (not 10). But when they were counting time they made one exception - instead of the expected 20 * 20 = 400 days they had 20 * 18 = 360 days. This must have been a concession to the length of the solar year, I think. Counting the path of Sun must be cut short.

But there are astronomical reasons for counting also time in cyclels of 20 * 20 = 400 days, because the synodic period of Jupiter is 399 days.

If the mystical zero once was likened to the unknown contents of an egg (0) from which a new 'bird of fire' was to rise when the new cycle began, then calendar time could follow the rhythm of Jupiter ('Father Light') and a calendar with 399 days (+ 'one more') would be the result.

Moon disappears to be rejuvenated once in a month, a night with 0 light. The theory of correspondences then finds 364 = 14 * 26 as the natural measure for the year (similar to 4 * 7 = 28 for the month). And before next cycle of 364 days can begin there must be a day with 0 light (at least in theory, but it would help to stamp out all the kitchen fires).

Therefore the synodic period of Jupiter cannot begin again until the day of 0 has passed away. There cannot be a new 'bird' without an 'egg'.

In the text of G this Jupiter 'egg' could be what is illlustrated as a fist held high in Gb6-17:

 
Gb6-16 (399) Gb6-17 (0)

The picture below (which I have mirrored in order for it to better agree with tagata in Gb6-17) is from Heyerdahl and we can see the gesture of triumph - the winner of the yearly manu tara contest is holding his egg high:

In H the cycle is not of Jupiter:

side b side a
53 299
Hb11-50 Ha6-25 (300)
1 354

Instead of 399 side a has 299 glyphs followed by an 'egg' (Saturn is responsible for igniting the new 'fire' - the day beyond is a day of Sun).

99 is a number characterizing the Venus 'bird':

"After five complete cycles totaling 2,920 days, the movement of Venus fill eight idealized years of 365 days each and come within hours of spanning 99 lunations ..." (Popol Vuh)

With both the cycles of Jupiter and Venus exhibiting 99 the theory of correspondences will force also Sun into this pattern. Thus the cycle of Sun should be 299 + 0.

 

 

Tagata in Gb6-17 has his fist held high in front:

Gb6-17 (0)

The normal way of holding an object is with the right hand. But the man in Gb6-17 is looking at us and therefore it must be his left fist which is held high.

However, in the rongorongo system (and presumable all over the world once upon a time) the left side is the back side. The front side is the facial side, the right side, the side in light.

The dilemma is easily solved: A text is a mirror of reality. Tagata in Gb6-17 is depicted as if in a mirror. Therefore it is his right fist which is held high, right and front must be on the same side.

The mirror of reality idea implies a text is not the true reality. The idea can be extended to cover also time. In the physical universe objects fall downwards due to gravitation. But growing things move upwards. The animate world is a mirror image of the inanimate world.

The rongorongo texts undulate upwards on the tablets. They are only descriptions of reality. These descriptions move to the right, but in reality events pass away to the back side. Life moves forward but history in the other direction, down through time.

 

At tara these glyphs were used in order to suggest that a 'bent tail' sign could mean a 'curve in time' - where there is a reversal, a point of turning around:

summer
Ka4-14 Ka4-15 *Kb2-15 *Kb2-16

The bent right lines of henua in Ka4-15 respectively *Kb2-15 is a further sign which could not only connect the beginning and end of 'summer', but also illustrate the necessarily curved path encountered when reaching a cardinal point.

There are only 5 + 5 glyph lines on the K tablet, presumably too few in order to describe a whole 12-month year. But 5 + 5 is suitable for illustrating the time of the year when Sun is present. Sun has 10 periods instead of 20 because he is present only during half the year, the other half he is far north. Thus, for example, there are 5 + 5 'feathers' on the head of  gagana in Gb6-16 - 'Father Light' (Jupiter) is an 'incarnation' of Sun:

 
Gb6-16 (399) Gb6-17 (0)

In 6-16 we can count 61 * 6 = 366.

'Summer' in my table above can anyhow refer to the whole of 'summer' (equal to the season when Sun is present). If mago in Ka4-14 represents spring equinox and the 'humpback' figure in *Kb2-16 represents autumn equionx, then the stretch of glyphs between them becomes the season when Sun is 'present' ('summer'):

summer

Ka4-13

 Ka4-14

Ka4-15

*Kb2-15

 *Kb2-16

*80

 *81

*82

*52

*134

 *135

2-16 we can recognize, it corresponds to 648 / 3 in H. Probably, therefore, *Kb2-16 indicates where the season of Spring Sun is ending.

135 = 5 * 27 and 27 = 3 * 3 * 3, a triplet of '3' signs, possible to use as an allusion for the 'fire bird' having reached to his limit.

81 = 3 * 3 * 3 * 3, a quartet of '3' signs, corresponds to the 2nd part of the week (from Mercury onwards to the 'egg' of Saturn).

Mago in Ka4-14 has a closed mouth and its head can therefore illustrate the Sun 'egg'. It is a Tuesday, and Mars is arriving with the 'fire'. 4-14 should indicate the first day of the new child. 14 * 29.5 = 413 and then comes 0.

There are ca 180 days from spring equinox to autumn equinox. If we use 364 as a measure for the whole year cycle (excluding the 'egg'), then the season when Sun is 'present' will be 182 (= 7 * 26) days.

52 glyphs can signify 7 because we will immediately associate 52 with the number of weeks in a year. 52 can therefore have a symbolic function.

Sun is associated with 26 and if we read '7' when we see 52, then we can conclude the number of days in 'summer' should be 7 * 26 = 182.

192 (my reconstructed number of glyph spaces on K) - 52 = 140, and these 52 glyphs can therefore also be used to define 'winter' as equal to 140 (= 280 / 2) nights. But obviously 140 cannot be added to 182 in order to reach the length of the solar year.

If we add 1 'egg' night for each fortnight, then 140 will turn out to be 150 nights or half those 300 for Sun.