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The parallel K text can be used to throw more light on what time it is. The bird at right in *Ka1-21 is parallel with gagana at *Ga1-18:

			...	...	...
Ka1-10	Ka1-11	Ka1-12	*Ka1-13	*Ka1-14	*Ka1-15
...			...
*Ka1-16	*Ka1-17	*Ka1-18	*Ka1-19	*Ka1-20	*Ka1-21

*Ka1-22	*Ka1-23	*Ka1-24

Presumably the 4 + 1 absent glyphs have been left out intentionally and what looks like partly obliterated glyphs have not been drawn otherwise. I have arrived at this conclusion after having contemplated what the text possibly means.

The general meaning of the end of line a1 in K can be made out by counting in terms of 7 and by following the order of our week. But we should not begin with Sunday but with Friday, the day of Venus.

To explain why, I must refer the reader to a few extra pages.

The order of the planets once determined not only the week but also the hours of the day, we should remember:

... the Chaldean astrologers introduced the 7-day week which has come down into the present. The number was convenient because the seers recognized seven planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each of which governed one hour of the day ...

I think it is quite probable that this structure entered the minds of the calendarmakers whenever time was to be defined according to some structure. The best structure surely was what already was well known and what had been decided by the ancient wise ones.

Sun had number 26 on Easter Island (according to Manuscript E and also according to the text of G). And Venus seems to have been number 1 according to H:

			189
Hb9-48	Hb9-49	Hb9-50 (1110)	189
day 1			63

These two items cannot, though, go together into a 7-week calendar where the order between the 'planets' follows the established order. Beginning from Sun at day 26 the result becomes:

The first day of Venus in a month will be day number 3, not day number 1. I have coloured Venus green, because that seems to fit her, she is the planet responsible for regenerating all living things (after first having taken their lives). And copper becomes green after a while.

28 is the number of nights when moon is illuminated by the Sun. The dark nights (29.5 - 28) are not in harmony with a 7-day week because such a week includes Saturn (the dark planet). If we throw him overboard, down into the sea where he belongs, the week will have only 6 days, and then Venus and Sun will agree:

Venus	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28

Jupiter will then be forced into the last position. And we know that he is found at the end position (e.g. Hatinga Te Kohi, koti):


Ca3-9	Ca3-10	Ca3-11	Ca3-12	Ca3-13
*30 9 = 270**	*30 10 = 300**	*30 11 = 330**	*30 12 = 360**	*30 13 = 390**
Jupiter

All would now be well if I could apply the 6-day week to the glyphs at the beginning of the K text. However, it never is easy. We must take one step at a time.

Let us begin with the following sequence:


Ka1-7	Ka1-8	Ka1-9	Ka1-10	Ka1-11	Ka1-12
Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun

26 for sun will be 12 for sun if we work with a 7-day week. There is a fortnight from Ka1-12 to Ka1-26. But the glyph line is not so long, it ends with *Ka1-24. And I have here been forced to use the 7-day week in order to make a good fit between the planets and what I can imagine from 'reading' the glyphs.

If Sun should be at Ka1-12, then we can understand why he has been drawn as vanishing - in the preceding vaha kai he goes down (head first). Jupiter has lost his head to Venus, which produces a rising fish from it. Mercury tries to do the same, but he cannot (of course). He is a male but tries to be a female.

Mars is similar to Jupiter, he brings fire, but not of the same kind and not with the same result. These imaginations of mine are not much to stand on. But it is a beginning.

From the signs and the number chart for the 7-day week I dare say that the vanishing sun glyph (Ka1-12) is meant to indicate the left (back) side of kiore + henua, which later becomes more of a reality in Ka3-21 (where 21 should refer to Mars - who will bring the spring fire down to earth):

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1	Ka3-15	Ka3-16	Ka3-17	Ka3-18	Ka3-19	Ka3-20	Ka3-21

Niu (left in Ka3-16) could refer to Jupiter because of number 16 and the position close to Venus. But the sign is at left, and it could therefore refer to Mercury. However, the left part of the glyph is the same entity as the right part (and the 'person' is 'dead'). Also the person at left in Ka1-9 is dead. It is Jupiter, the tree of lightning. Instead of an oak the Polynesians have a coconut palm.

Venus has number 17 which, we know from the rongorongo texts, indicates the beginning of something new. This new one arrives via a dark Saturn. Death (vae kore - no legs, no movement) comes before the new life (moa in Ka3-19).

Reasonable results are acquired by this method. Let us therefore begin from the beginning:


Ka1-1	Ka1-2	Ka1-3	Ka1-4	Ka1-5	Ka1-6

Ka1-5 for Sun is a good fit, it looks like the 'fire generator' immediately before the henua calendar of spring, and it is drawn as already 'eating'. 'Fire' (sun) has begun to grow.

The first 4 glyphs are not very clear, though. Spooky characters. 4 special ones ('Bacabs') appear at beginnings and ends.

The shapes for Sun and Moon, however, are vital and they do have some resemblance with Sun and Moon in the first henua period:


Ka1-5	Ka1-6

Ka3-19	Ka3-20

But the signs are inverted, it seems. The phases are different.

Beyond Ka1-12 comes another suit of 4 special glyphs, they are lost. And they have special numbers too (13, 14, 15, 16 - numbers close to 14 as in 3-14):


Ka1-7	Ka1-8	Ka1-9	Ka1-10	Ka1-11	Ka1-12
Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn	Sun

...	...	...	...			...
*Ka1-13	*Ka1-14	*Ka1-15	*Ka1-16	*Ka1-17	*Ka1-18	*Ka1-19	*Ka1-20

*Ka1-18 (atariki, the 'shadow king', precursor of the 'spring shark') is here appropriately allotted to Saturn. (Likewise the ghostly ariki without feathers in Ka1-4.) When the king of shadows is present, sun is not (*Ka1-19).

The 4 'Bacabs' (one at each 'corner' of the 'earth') evidently are the blue 'planets' beyond Sun:

We should note how the rearrangment of the number chart forces days 1 and 2 outside. Ka1-1--2 are puo glyphs (2 of them as when we count puo in Gb8-30 twice). They are only imagined (outlines not closed) because light is hidden down in the earth, like potatoes which have been hilled up:


Ka1-1	Ka1-2	Ka1-3	Ka1-4	Ka1-5	Ka1-6

The suit of 4 glyphs at the beginning are not the 4 'Bacabs'. Only 2 of them are present, and they are hidden in the ground (Mercury and Saturn).

Moon and Mars (female respectively male) are located in that order as pillars in the east (spring). Mercury and Jupiter ('female' respective male) are located in that order as pillars in the west (autumn).

Mercury and Jupiter are buried at the beginning of the new calendar year. Autumn is in the past. They are not present for real, only in our imagination can they be seen.

Venus and Saturn are not present for real either. Sun is envisoned as being alighted at Ka1-5 and Moon consequently will begin to be illuminated at Ka1-6.

So Venus is not at the beginning of the week, Sun is.

In the 7-day week chart for the nights of the month, however, she has the first position:

It means that day 1 according to H should be day number 3 in the first month, and that the beginning should come with hilled up Mercury:


Hb9-33	Hb9-34	Hb9-35	Hb9-36 (1096)	Hb9-37	Hb9-38
364			365 = 1098 / 3 - 1

Koti at Hb9-36 refers not only to the disorderly orbit of Mercury, when (s)he most of the time is hidden from view, but also - and foremost - to the position in the last day of the calendar year, where the flow of time is cut off.