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TRANSLATIONS
A natural question to ask is whether the 4 viri glyphs in A can be 'mapped' together with Ab4-18 and Aa6-66:
If we begin with side b, we have niu at Ab4-17 located as number 261 (= 9 * 29):
It would be nice if we could integrate Ab4-17 as a multiple of glyphs beyond viri at Ab1-1. But that is not possible, we have to count from Ab1-1:
If we take away 9 * 29 glyphs from 522 (= 18 * 29), we will have halved 522:
This appears to be a harmonious structure. Next problem is pito:
The distance from Ab4-18 to Ab8-43 is 360 glyphs. Probably this is important.
Inserting the two viri glyphs:
The two viri obviously are used to define 261 days, the first half of which ends with niu at Ab4-17 (with glyph number 261). 258 = 6 * 43 and 261 days is equal to 12 * 43 + 6 glyphs (and 8 * 43 - at pito - is equal to 344). Ab7-26 has ordinal number 522, which can be interpreted as 5 and 22 (π). But 7 * 26 = 182 also says much. The two viri define half a year. Then follows 142 glyphs, 71 days. Maybe they should be integrated with side a. Or rather: Then follows 100 glyphs (50 days) before a new counting will begin:
4 * 67 = 168 and in Aa4-65 (where 4 * 65 = 260) a moe says it is time. This solution is, though, pure speculation. The counting could begin somewhere else:
Instead, let us try from the other direction. There are two viri on side a, and let us insert Aa6-66 between them:
No great symmetry is obvious. Aa5-7 is offset by 18 glyphs, though:
Not much is gained. But 493 = 450 + 43 and 573 = 530 + 43. Let us assume that day number 572 is the limit. Then there will be 130 glyphs (65 = 260 / 4 days) from Aa6-65 up to and including Aa8-27:
From this follows that we should terminate the preceding sequence of events with Aa6-64:
If we show the beginning of side a, we once again will find 666, and now viri at Aa5-7 comes 169 (= 13 * 13) days later:
But what happened with Aa4-71--72?
159 + 7 = 166 days. I decide to add a page in the dictionary excursion: ... Having established as 'fact' the equation 2 glyphs = 1 day, it is possible to investigate each of the two sides of the rongorongo texts separately:
I have black-marked niu at Ab4-17 (where 4 * 17 = 68) because its ordinal number is 261 = 9 * 29. My 'map' is ordered with 260 glyphs (130 days) as one group before the arrival of the ominous 261. Ab4-17 stands where a viri could be expected, but no such glyph is close in the text ...
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