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400 days is in G
presumably reached at tagata in Gb6-17:
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Also in the calendar for
the week (or planets) according to H the haú ke glyphs can be
perceived as located close to the end of a cycle and in
association with Moon:
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Hb9-17 |
Hb9-18 |
Hb9-19 |
Hb9-20 |
Hb9-21 |
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Moon |
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Hb9-22 |
Hb9-23 |
Hb9-24 |
Hb9-25 |
Hb9-26 |
Hb9-27 |
Hb9-28 |
The number
of glyphs in lines Hb1--b8 are 413 (= 14 * 29½), which
hardly is a coincidence (because of number 8 defining the end
of a cycle). Possibly,
therefore, the ordinal numbers in line Hb9 should be
taken at their face values - a new season has begun. 9 * 24 = 216 and 9 * 26 =
234, i.e. the two haú ke glyphs can, if judged by
these numbers, be imagined
as arriving just before the end.
Furthermore, 648 (side a)
+ 413 + 22 (at Hb9-22) = 1083, which becomes 361 if
divided by 3. I.e. haú ke in Hb9-25 will be close
to 'the day of Rogo', day 363 (cfr at maro):
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Hb9-23 |
Hb9-24 |
Hb9-25 (1086) |
Hb9-26 |
Hb9-27 |
Hb9-28 |
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1086 / 3 =
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day 363 |
We can also
count 108 * 6 (from 1086 at Hb9-25), which results in 648 = the
number of glyphs on side b (and also on side a according to
our
main alternative for counting).
Moon
determines the end of Sun.
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My prelimary idea of haú ke
as a sign of a 'luminary rising' has been 'proven' false after
having
investigated the whereabouts of 'etoru kiori', as Metoro
commented Ca6-7--9:
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haú ke |
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Ca6-7 |
Ca6-8 |
Ca6-9 (149) |
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etoru
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haú |
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Cb10-9 |
Cb10-10 |
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Both haú and haú ke are
instead evidently
referring to 'light at the back' (in the past). In a
cosmic frame of mind the idea in the background of
'etoru kiori' (Ca6-7--9) could be that 'fire in the
sky' is in the past (because there are 'feathers' on the back side of
these kai glyphs). According to myth our 'fire' down on earth has been
stolen from its origin high up in the sky.
20 glyphs
(Ca5-32--Ca6-9) can be read as a calendar for the year, and in this
calendar the triplet of haú ke are found, it seems, just before
high summer (Ca6-10 is glyph number 150 counted from Ca1-1). It is getting hot because the 'fire' has come down from
the sky. Relief is waiting just around the corner, however, because
the 'vai season' (cfr Ca6-12) will soon change everything:
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Ca6-5 |
Ca6-6 |
Ca6-7 |
Ca6-8 |
Ca6-9 |
Ca6-10 |
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Ca6-11 |
Ca6-12 |
Ca6-13 |
Ca6-14 |
Ca6-15 |
Ca6-16 |
Confirmation of the
meaning 'fire in the past' is given
for instance by the quartet of haú ke glyphs in Gb6-21--24:
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Gb6-17 |
Gb6-18 |
Gb6-19 |
Gb6-20 |
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Gb6-21 |
Gb6-22 |
Gb6-23 |
Gb6-24 |
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Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26 (409) |
Gb6-27 |
Gb6-28 |
Also
they are close to the end of a cycle, because winter
solstice is probably located at Rogo in
Gb6-26 (where we can imagine 409 as alluding to 40 *
9 = 360).
In Ca6-7--9 the
triplet of 'late spring' haú ke glyphs seems to arrive around summer solstice and in Gb6-21--24 the quartet of 'late autumn'
haú ke glyphs evidently come just before winter solstice.
12
respectively 13 'feathers' in Gb6-21 and Gb6-22 could refer to 12
respectively 13 months for measuring the path of Sun, for instance
as 12 * 30 = 360 and 13 * 28 = 364.
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In Gb6-23 and
Gb6-24 the
number of 'feathers' is 15. Possibly this number has been chosen not only
in order to refer to the
number for the full moon night - 2 glyphs and 2 full moons
because the lunar months have to be counted 2 at a time (2 * 29½ =
59) - but also in order to indicate a longer
'path' for Moon than for Sun:
15 / 13 * 354 = 408
There are 8 glyphs
from Gb6-17 up to and including Gb6-25.
At Gb6-25 we can
count 6 * 25 = 150. The number of 'feathers' in the pair Gb6-21--22
is 12 + 13 = 25, and compared with the number of 'feathers' in the
next pair Gb6-23--24, which is 15 + 15 = 30, it is possible to
formulate a relationship between 20 * 15 = 300 and 20 * 18 = 360:
30 / 25 * 300 = 360
If 150 at Gb6-25
refers to 150 days from the beginning of counting days, then the
beginning should be in day 408 - 150 = 258:
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If we count from
Ca6-11 with 20 days per glyph, then the last glyph of the calendar in C will be
Ca6-10 at day number 400:
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"All was now ready for
departure except that there was no fire in the smithy. The ancestor
slipped into the workshop of the great Nummo, who are Heaven's
smiths, and stole a piece of the sun in the form of live embers and
white-hot iron. He seized it by means of a 'robber's stick' the
crook of which ended in a slit, open like a mouth.
He dropped some of the
embers, came back to pick them up, and fled towards the granary; but
his agitation was such that he could no longer find the entrances.
He made the round of it
several times before he found the steps and climbed onto the flat
roof, where he hid the stolen goods in one of the skins of the
bellows, exclaiming: 'Gouyo!', which is to say. 'Stolen!'.
The word is still part
of the language, and means 'granary'. It is a reminder that without
the fire of the smithy and the iron of hoes there would be no crops
to store."
(Ogotemmêli)
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