We can begin
by showing the whole parallel:
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Aa3-6 |
Aa3-7 |
Aa3-8 |
Aa3-9 |
Aa3-10 |
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Aa3-11 |
Aa3-12 |
Aa3-13 |
Aa3-14 |
Aa3-15 |
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Ab2-34 |
Ab2-35 |
Ab2-36 |
Ab2-37 |
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Ab2-38 |
Ab2-39 |
Ab2-40 |
The hahe glyph
type (Aa3-9, Ab2-38) is unusual and we will therefore save the main
part of this discussion to that 'chapter', and instead here
concentrate on manu kake.
Aa3-10 is fairly
normal, with a raised 'future' wing and old birds both at left and
right, none of them has a 'ghostly' character. The bird at right
seems to be somewhat older (a more curved beak), the bird at left
somewhat more well fed. 3-10 probably indicates a solar period (30
or 300 days).
Ab2-37 has undulating
wings, the wing tip at right ending in a sign which we do not yet
understand. Its body is short, maybe meaning winter when the sky
roof is low. Although its neck appears to be long, compensating the
short body stature, the general impression is that the glyph is 'broad'. 2-37 does not say
anything, but that probably is because 2-36 has been destined for
the preceding hahe glyph. 2-36 suggests on one hand twice 36
(which we who are born in Western Culture maybe identifies as two
years), on the other hand 236 (= 8 * 29.5).
The Mamari
moon calendar has 2 * 36 = 72 glyphs, and there - we can guess - it
means the two 'faces' of the moon, waxing and waning. Following this
lead we can suspect 2-36 to indicate that a pair of cycles have come to an
end. And then we can guess that 236 is also meant to indicate 2 * 118
- that two
cycles each with 4 months à 29.5 nights have ended.
Manu kake can then be the first glyph in a new 'year'.
The curios 'heads' in
Ab2-37 could allude to fists, no light yet released (but soon). In
Aa3-10 an important sign is the 'birth' at the top (the location of
the sun). The 'spreading out' in hau tea (Aa3-15) is
also a sign of the
sun (while, on the other hand, ragi in Ab2-40 has a moon
crescent).
Let us now count:
side a |
side b |
274 |
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395 |
118 |
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545 |
Aa3-10 (275) |
Ab2-37 (119) |
670 |
664 |
118 says the moon
measure 29.5 has been used on side b.
On side a 275 = 11 * 25 could allude to the idea of 11 as 1 more than
the full measure for the sun (10) - a way to indicate the birth of a
new sun. The word 'eleven' means 'one left over after having
counted to ten'.
The internal parallel suggests we should find a meaningful
distance between these two manu kake glyphs. 395 + 118 =
513 or one more than 8 * 64. Thinking in terms of days (with 2
glyphs per day), it is 8 * 32 = 256 which presumably is our
number. Using it we once more encounter 395:
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512 |
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Aa3-10 |
Aa3-11 (276) |
Ab2-37 |
Ab2-38 (120) |
138 |
256 |
395 |
Although we possibly should consider 395 to be just a joke. We
ought to add 1 day (Ab2-39--40) to reach the end of the
parallel, and 395 + 1 = 396 = 11 * 36 is a more meaningful number.
One more than 10 times 36 indicates a new season has been born.
395 glyphs from Aa2-10 to the end of side a should likewise be
changed into 395 - 5 = 390 = 13 * 30, in a way the same message
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one more than 12 * 30 = 360. Both our manu kake glyphs
indicate newborn years.
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