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TRANSLATIONS
Possibly the creator of Tahua decided to use 2 glyphs per day for the multiples of 29.5 because he did not like having the odd numbered kuhane stations located between glyphs, e.g. at Te Pou:
Counting multiples of 29 does not create this kind of problem, and it is natural to use 1 glyph per day. In G the creator may have used another trick to avoide locations between glyphs, viz. to begin the counting procedure first from Gb8-30 and then to take another turn counting from Ga1-1:
Also at Hatinga Te Pau the 'trick' eliminates a disturbing fraction (here ¼). Maybe the counting should here be done in another way - once from Gb8-30 and three times from Ga1-1. There could be some sign which tells how many times the counting should be done from Ga1-1. Implicitly, the rule could be to use the 'trick' only when the first counting reached an even number. When an odd number was reached by counting from Gb8-30 no additional counting was needed. In K neither Te Pou nor Hatinga Te Kohe seem to be described - they belong to the 2nd cycle of the year. And the glyph lines are too short for being suitable to build a structure on 29.5. Therefore the counting can be done using Ka1-1 as the beginning. There is no problem. Even in C, we have recently discovered, counting seems to begin with a1-1: ... Also the full moon glyph, Ca7-24, indicates 168, because 7 * 24 = 168. Ca7-24 is glyph number 168 + 24 = 192 (equal to the number of glyphs in the K text). In other words, its ordinal number is 8 * 24 and its line number and glyph number in the line result in 7 * 24 ... The C tablet has 740 glyphs distributed over 28 lines, i.e. ca 26.5 glyphs per line. In G there are 471 / 16 = ca 29.5 glyphs per line. The glyph lines of C are shorter than those in G and possibly, therefore, motivating the creator of the C text to avoid counting multiples of 29.5. But 26.5 could have been used instead of 29.5, because 28 * 26.5 = 742, and we would then have a similar problem with fractions as in G. 29 is evidently the black night which remains to be accounted for with a calendar using fortnights. 2 * 14 = 28 and then follows one night which cannot be described in the light of a rational mind. In the same way 364 = 26 * 14, leaving the 365th night in the dark. The rotation of the earth around its axis forces counting to go on beyond day number 364, otherwise the year indeed is correctly described as having 364 days. The rotation of the earth around the sun goes in the same direction. For a description of the number of nights needed for the moon to move through her 'faces' 29.5 is more accurate than 29. The light on the face of the moon also depends on the whereabouts of the sun - she is like the earth. In the rongorongo system 29 (as in viri) indicates where sun is not. Instead of 'fire' there is 'water':
Tahua has 1334 glyphs, and 4 of them are viri glyphs. Therefore we should count 1334 - 4 = 1330. Remarkably, we then will find that 1330 / 266 = 5. In other words, if we use 266 to indicate Te Pou, the text seems to suggest Sirius to be connected with fire (5):
531 is another way of referring to fire. Although the ordinal number (7-31) identifies the location to the 'night' side of the year (by way of 7, the moon's number), 5 * 31 = 155 could very well refer to the duration of spring sun: ... Many interesting glyphs appear amongh these 50 glyphs [for 'Akahanga']. Let us only, though, point at Aa4-59 which is positioned so as to be certainly observed. 4 * 59 = 236 = 8 * 29.5 is the number for Te Pei. But the ordinal number is only 310, or equal to 155 days using the coinage for the sun. Possibly it means that there are 5 months with 31 days measured out for the spring sun. 177, we know, is outside at Nga Kope Ririva:
At 'Hatinga Te Kohe' we should notice that there is still a continuity by way of henua at Aa5-36 (where 5 * 360 = 180). Spring sun could end at 364, because 5 * 31 = 155:
The ordinal number at Pa10-1 also indicates how sun is vanishing at that point:
If we count with 2 glyphs per day in Tahua, we will find number 1062 (= 2 * 531) to be Ab5-68:
If we count with 1 glyph per day in Tahua, we will find 266-267 to be Aa4-15--16:
As we have recently noticed these 6 glyphs appear in the midst of a dark surrounding (in the moon version of 'Te Pou'), where 9 * 29 = 261 is the point of reference:
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