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 phase

observed periods

periods in the Mayan 'map'

difference

morning star

263

236

- 27

black

50

90

+ 40

evening star

263

250

- 13

black

8

8

0

sum

584

584

0

236 + 90 = 326, quite near 11 * 29.5 = 324.5 (Akahanga), but we will not visit that place. Instead Hua Reva is next station on our route.

In the 2nd list of place names 39 Akahanga comes immediately before 40 Hua Reva:

39 Akahanga

40 Hua Reva

10-12

Hua Reva is at a 'corner of the earth'. It initiates a new season. Akahanga is therefore the end of the previous season. The dark quarter is reaching its end with Akahanga. The time of the evening star has come.

40 is ⅔ of 60. We can calculate 324 = X * ⅔ and find X = 486 to be a significant glyph ('sitting' at the beginning of a new cycle):

Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14 (486) Ga1-15 Ga1-16

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Hua Reva

During the waxing phase of the moon it is observed rising from a beginning at the horizon in the west towards full moon and zenith. The Mamari moon calendar has evidently located the night Ohua as glyph 26 of those 36 needed to reach Omotohi (full moon). Both according to Englert and Métraux Ohua is the night immediately before Otua (or Atua), i.e. night number 9 respectively 12.

Hua Reva means that the 'fruit' (hua) is being uplifted (reva), but the 'fruit' is not the moon. It is the spirit of the sun who is uplifted towards the sky like a fish from the sea. 10 * 29.5 = 295 is the location of the kuhane station Hua Reva. Or counted according to regular sun months: 10 * 30 = 300.

Below are listed 6 * 5 = 30 glyphs:

Gb2-27 Gb2-28 Gb2-29 (285) Gb2-30 Gb2-31
Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (290) Gb2-35 Gb3-1
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 (295) Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Gb3-7 Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb3-11
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19 (310) Gb3-20 Gb3-21

Taking the cue from the Mamari moon calendar we could read these glyphs as if they were moon nights instead of sun days. Counting could then begin with Gb2-27 as zero:

Gb2-27 (0) Gb2-28 Gb2-29 Gb2-30 Gb2-31
Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (7) Gb2-35 Gb3-1
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 (12) Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Gb3-7 Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (17) Gb3-10 Gb3-11
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (22) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19 (27) Gb3-20 Gb3-21

Gb2-35 (8) has an arrangment of hua poporo presumably illustrating that sun has only 3 quarter (berries), how at the top (midsummer) one berry seems to be lost, and how at bottom right (the last quarter) another berry is missing. Then follows a new glyph line, 2 * 35 = 10 * 7, and 29 (at Gb3-21) is a measure using the light from the sun reflected from the moon during 4 weeks, i.e. in short '10' (sun) and '7' (moon).

The oval in Gb3-5 (13) looks like the moon in the night Ohua, not quite like a sphere yet.

The very last glyph in what presumably is the longest of the calendar cycles in G has number 496 (= 16 * 31). 10 * 30.5 = 305 is Gb3-14, certainly alluding to π, meaning a cycle has ended. As a confirmation we find its ordinal number (beyond Gb2-27) to be 22 (hinting at the formula π = 22 / 7). Moreover, from 305 up to and including 496 there are 192 glyphs, an important number, which here aquires the property of being very close to 2 * 22 / 7 * 30.5 (= 191.71).

A new season is about to be born in Gb3-13, because sun is going away and a new cycle takes its beginning at Gb3-14 (192 = the circumference of a circle with radius 30½). There is a hole instead of an eye in Gb3-14, and an empty space is illustrated also in Gb3-16.

Gb3-9 (17) is characterized by ominous numbers (a triplet of 9 and 17). The glyph depicts how tapa mea is transformed into a verocious gap, filled with teeth (9 of them). The idea is that sun will be swallowed. The following glyph (18) stands beyond the limit (1 more than the full measure 300 days for the sun) - 8 feathers at left are balanced by 8 at right.

Sun does not die at high summer, he is only changed from raw nature, growing without limit, into a more 'cultivated' person. At Hua Reva it is time for next transformation, another 'maw' is opening up for him (cfr Gb3-9). The same glyph type is seen in Pb11-42:

 
Pb11-39 Pb11-40 Pb11-41 Pb11-42 Pb11-43

Another (complementary) reading is that a season is opening up (vaha). The black quarter following Venus down into the earth is now over:

 
Vaha

Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga.

1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike.  Churchill.

Presumably the shape is a mixture of tapa mea and haati:

 
tapa mea Pb11-42 Gb3-9 (17) haati

The 'thigh' is up, it is not an upside down version of haati, but the 'knee' is turned to the back, which I guess means 'infertile'. In Gb3-14 a new season, once again fertile, opens up.

The constellation Pb11-42--43 confirms the idea that tapa mea depicts a canoe, or at least the same type of object as can be seen in tao. The ordinal number for Pb11-42 (counted from Pa1-1) can be reconstructed as 1140 = 19 * 60, which (like -42) means a final for the sun. Therefore we should regard the glyphs around Pb11-42 as structurally related to the Hua Reva glyphs in G:

 
Pb11-39 Pb11-40 Pb11-41 Pb11-42 Pb11-43
Gb3-7 (15) Gb3-8 Gb3-9 Gb3-10 Gb3-11

The meaning is not the same, though, because Pb11-40 and Pb11-43 are without 'feathers', and the order is reversed between Pb11-41 and Gb3-11. Gb3-8 seems to be standing up, while Pb11-40 looks upside down.

The calendar of the week (Pb10-29 -- Pb11-5) has Pb11-1 in Saturday, and counting from there Pb11-42 will be number 42. In G a calendar for the week - or at least for the planets - similarly comes not far before Hua Reva (Gb1-26 -- Gb2-8). 35 (b2) + 7 (Gb3-7) = 42:

 
Gb1-26 Gb2-1 Gb2-2 Gb2-3 Gb2-4 Gb2-5
Saturn Sun Moon Mars
Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 Gb2-11
Mercury Jupiter Venus Sirius

Gb1-24 (0) Gb1-25 Gb1-26 Gb2-1 Gb2-2
Gb2-3 Gb2-4 Gb2-5 Gb2-6 Gb2-7
Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (12) Gb2-11 Gb2-12 (14)
Gb2-13 Gb2-14 (16) Gb2-15 Gb2-16 Gb2-17 (19)

Gb1-26 could be the sun, of course, with his mouth closed, cfr the more clear Ab6-42--57:

Gb1-26 Gb2-1 Gb2-2 Gb2-3 Gb2-4 Gb2-5
Sun (1) Moon (2) Mars (3)
Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 Gb2-11
Mercury Jupiter Venus Sirius
Sunday Monday-Wednesday Thursday-Saturday
Mars and Venus
Mercury and Saturn

If so, then Saturn seems to be missing (or to be Gb2-9).

The tao glyphs in P are 7 in number like those in G, and 2-32 occurs in both:

 

Pa2-32 Pa5-28 Pa5-29 Pa9-30 Pa9-36
Pb11-238 Pb11-240
Ga1-22 Ga1-25
Gb1-24 Gb2-12 Gb2-32 Gb3-2 Gb7-17

Could Pa2-32 also be a glyph in Hua Reva?

 
Pa2-27 Pa2-28 Pa2-29 Pa2-30 Pa2-31 Pa2-32 (85) Pa2-33 Pa2-34

Gb2-32 has ordinal number 8 * 36 = 288. From a state on land (Pa2-27) the key persons have, it seems, settled in water (Pa2-34).

Pa2-30 (83 counted from Pa1-1) looks much like the very last glyph in the longest cycle in G:

 
Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25

Ga1-23 and Pa2-33 are obviously to be compared. The are the same, yet opposites. 2 * 30 (in Pa2-30) = 60, while in Ga1-24 another 'coinage' is used. Two tao glyphs in G, but only one in P.

And then there are not only one ariki glyph of this type in P:

 

Pa2-30 Pa2-35 Pa3-42 (154) Pa6-49 Pa6-50 Pa6-52
Pa7-7 Pa7-12 Pa7-38 Pa8-25 Pa9-26 (514) Pa9-35
Pa9-41 Pb2-12 Pb3-9 Pb5-30 Pb8-51

514 - 154 (obviously referring to each other) = 360.

3 * 42 = 126 = 7 * 18 and 9 * 26 = 234 = 13 * 18.

6 * 18 (= 234 - 126) = 108 = 4 * 27.