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Next page in the excursion in tao:

You can measure a cycle beginning anywhere, but to begin with a tao or Rei glyph would seem to be the natural choice:

Ga1-22 (464) Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25
Ga1-26 (468) Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 (472)

Tao shows a canoe 'en face' while Rei is seen from the side. 26 * 18 = 468 suggests an 'antipodal' glyph could be at 13 * 18 = 234. Counting from Ga1-30 eliminates the first 29 glyphs and the last glyph on side a will therefore be number 200:

a1 (30) 1 b1 26
a2 29 b2 35
a3 24 b3 30
a4 27 b4 33
a5 30 b5 29
a6 29 b6 28
a7 34 b7 31
a8 26 b8 30
sum (229) 200 sum 242

Gb2-8 (maybe Venus) at 13 * 18 = 234 could then be a sign that Sirius (Te Pou) is coming:

Gb2-8 (234) Gb2-9 Gb2-10 Gb2-11 Gb2-12
Gb2-13 Gb2-14 (240) Gb2-15 Gb2-16 Gb2-17

The 'π' glyph Gb2-14 (half 28) may have a viri sign at its top. This glyph certainly is intended to draw attention. It is flanked by glyphs sharing an undulating sign with Gb5-10:

Gb5-6 (331) Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9
Gb5-10 (335) Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13

If time moves counterclockwise, it will turn a quarter from Gb2-14 to Gb5-10, equal to 5 * 19 = 95 glyphs, maybe indicating the existence of a year with 380 days.

Where does such a year begin and end? 450 = 5 * 90 is equal to 15 / 12 * 360. 4 * 19 = 76 = 380 / 5. 360 = 20 * 18, and 380 = 20 * 19.

20 = 4 * 5, means a cycle possible to divide into 20 parts also can be divided either into 4 parts or 5 parts. Maybe Aa6-63 is expressing a cycle with 5 parts? It has ordinal number 480 counted from Ab8-84:

Aa6-56 Aa6-57 Aa6-58 Aa6-59 Aa6-60 Aa6-61 Aa6-62
Aa6-63 (480) Aa6-64 Aa6-65 Aa6-66 Aa6-67 Aa6-68 Aa6-69
Aa6-70 Aa6-71 Aa6-72 Aa6-73 Aa6-74 Aa6-75 Aa6-76

480 / 5 = 96 = 4 * 24.

1,334 / 5 = 266.8 which is rather close to 9 * 29.5 = 265.5. But it is also rather close to 268. 1,334 / 20 = 66.7, which is close to 68.

The last two pages of the excursion:

The ordinal numbers of glyphs should not be relied upon. The signs in the glyphs are much more trustworthy. Assuming the 19 'feathers' in haś (at Gb2-17) refer to a sequence of 19 glyphs ending there, we can count backwards to find Gb1-24 located at time zero:

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)

Using the cues in the glyphs will suggest Gb2-13--17 should have a meaning similar to what can be read in Aa1-46--48, Aa1-16--17.

Gb2-9 Gb2-10 Gb2-11 Gb2-12
Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45
Gb2-13 Gb2-14 Gb2-15 Gb2-16 Gb2-17
Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48 Aa1-16 Aa1-17

The first period in the calendar of the daylight has a reversed tapa mea (Aa1-17) indicating sun has not arrived yet. The last glyphs in the calendar of the night (Aa1-46--48) of course must connect to the first glyphs in the calendar of the daylight. The ordinal numbers in the glyph lines, b2-16--17 respectively a1-16--17, are more reliable than ordinal numbers counted from some distant point.

The strange eating gesture in Gb2-15 has a parallel in the strange eating gesture in Aa1-48. Signs of ragi unite Gb2-14 and Aa1-47. 46 (in Aa1-46) indicates an end (cfr 1,334 = 46 * 29), which means Aa1-47 should be a new beginning. Reading the words of Metoro we can understand the sky (ragi) is beginning to dawn (Aa1-47), followed by the first light reaching also down to earth (Aa1-48).

To count distances between glyphs we must have the ordinal numbers for them counted from some (arbitrary) point. Counting from Gb8-30 has proven to give interesting results and we can therefore as well use that method:

Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Gb2-12 (268)
Gb2-13 Gb2-14 (270) Gb2-15 Gb2-16 (272)

270 at Gb2-14, together with the viri signs at the top in the flanking two glyphs, suggests a connection with the year stretching for 364 days to vaha kai in Gb5-10:

Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9
Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11 Gb5-12 (366) Gb5-13

272 at Gb2-16 is 200 less than 472. 268 at Gb2-12 is similar to 168 (which we have found to be a measure for the spring sun). It is therefore presumably relevant to find the distance to be 168 between Gb2-14 and another curious glyph:

168
Gb2-14 Gb7-28
270 439

472 = 2 * 168 + 2 * 68 = 336 + 136 - and we notice that both numbers end with 36. It means we can express 472 as 400 + 72, where 72 = 360 / 5.

The idea of vaha kai at Gb5-10 meaning 'the end' also implies it should indicate a new beginning. I have listed the following glyphs from the Santiago Staff as vaha kai:

I1-25 I1-60 I3-119 I3-154 I3-156 I3-166
I4-58 I4-59 I4-99 I4-125 I5-95 I6-204
I7-186 I8-143 I9-195 I10-183 I10-208 I11-124
I11-168 I11-198 I11-212 I12-116 I12-131 I13-201
 
I14-109 I14-114 I14-186

The first three examples possibly illustrate 'death followed by a new beginning'. But I3-156 is not far from I3-119, and the 'new beginning' may therefore have a sign with undulation at the bottom end. From the bottom growth must come.

If so, then the undulation at the top end (e.g. in Gb2-13 and Gb2-15) indicates 'the end', which means Sirius presumably announces both the close and the new beginning.

Once (at rima in the glyph dictionary) it has earlier been noted that counting should begin with Ga1-22:

In order to ensure that the interpretation suggested is probable it is necessary to count. The 'global map' of the G text is the frame of reference:
24 208 235
Ga1-1 Ga1-26 Gb1-6 Gb8-30

Several 'maps' can then be constructed which together (in a complementary fashion) illuminate how the text should be read. It is not necessary to consult any of these, though. Instead we will here draw yet another of these maps, based on the positions in the text of Ga7-19 and Gb5-25 - which I have argued for - depict the generative 'kava' process:

Ga7-19 Gb5-25
There are two natural points from which to begin counting, viz. at the beginning of the text (Ga1-1) or at Ga1-26. In the latter case we should probably count from Gb1-6 as regards Gb5-25.
24 208 235
Ga1-1 Ga1-26 Gb1-6 Gb8-30

The results show how closely Ga7-19 and Gb5-25 are connected numerically regarded:

Ga1-1 1 Ga1-1 1 Ga1-26 1 Gb1-6 1
Ga7-19 188 Gb5-25 378 Ga7-19 164 Gb5-25 144
188 = 4 * 47 378 = 9 * 42 164 = 4 * 41 144 = 4 * 36

188 is very close to 190 (= 378 - 188), i.e. Gb5-25 is about twice the distance from Ga1-1.

The results are though not quite satisfactory. We must have missed something:

Ga1-1 1 Ga1-1 1 Ga1-26 1 Gb1-6 1
Ga7-19 188 Gb5-25 378 Ga7-19 164 Gb5-25 144
188 = 4 * 47 378 = 9 * 42 164 = 4 * 41 144 = 4 * 36

4 is a number which probably must be included. Not only because it appears in 3 out of 4 places, but foremost because a 'year' ought to be possible to divide into 'quarters. A cycle is like a wheel turning and there necessarily must be 4 quarters.

378 = 4 * 94.5 is not a good number, while 144 obviously is good.

And a better number than 164 would be 4 * 42 = 168. But to reach it we must begin counting at Ga1-22 instead of at Ga1-26:

Ga1-22 1 Gb1-6 1
Ga7-19 168 Gb5-25 144
168 = 4 * 42 144 = 4 * 36

To change and start the counting 4 glyphs earlier than from Ga1-26 is not acceptable unless there is support from the messages delivered by the glyphs:

Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26

Ga1-21 is a glyph type which probably indicates end. Ga1-22 therefore is located at the beginning. In the calendar for the night this type of glyph arrives beyond midnight, announcing the birth of a new day.

Furthermore, Ga1-21--22 together suggest Ga7-19:

Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga7-19

The glyphs support counting from Ga1-22 and our new ('kava') map therefore could be:

20 166 45 142 92
Ga1-1 Ga1-22 Ga7-19 Gb1-6 Gb5-25 Gb8-30
1 168 1 144
4 * 42 4 * 36

1 + 20 + 168 + 45 = 234 (Gb1-5). 144 + 92 + 1 = 237 (Gb8-30). 234 + 237 = 471. The numbers say, though, that we should rearrange 4 * 36 one step ahead:

20 166 46 142 91
Ga1-1 Ga1-22 Ga7-19 Gb1-7 Gb5-26 Gb8-30
1 168 1 144
4 * 42 4 * 36

1 + 20 + 168 + 46 = 235 (Gb1-6). 144 + 91 + 1 = 236 (Gb8-30). 235 + 236 = 471. It seems logical not to start at Gb1-6 because we did not start at Ga1-26. As to the number 42 and 36 the number of glyphs in A is 628 + 42 = 670 on side a and 628 + 36 = 664 on side b. 42 is used on the 'light' side and 36 on the 'dark' side. 46 (the distance between Ga7-19 and Gb1-7) also agrees with Tahua because 1334 = 46 * 29.