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If sun is the 'message' in these twin tahana 'canoes', then it is probable - I judge - that the following twin glyphs depict the rising 'water spout'.
The 'beak' of hakaturou is of the kind which I suspect indicates the moon. Could the reading be 'Ohiro'? Next twin glyphs are describing growth relying on sun. Having been 'born', the new 'moon' must then grow. I have catalogized the 'Ohiro' sign as a variant of hau tea - not of ua. I think that was a good decision. The distribution of flames in Ha3-41 and Ha3-37 is the same as in Ha5-52 and Ha5-56, 4 followed by 3. Does it allude to the 1st quarter of the sun year having 4 periods and the 2nd quarter 3 periods? But 5 * 52 = 260 (and 5 * 56 = 280), and we should remember:
We may be on the trail of the solution, because in Ha6-1 there is a 'spike' in front, where we can expect the 10th and final flame:
In other words, the a.m. period of growing sun may have been created to allude to the 10 periods of sun. In day 364 (= 104 + 260) he will disappear, and evidently so also at noon. It becomes a curious mixture, because a.m. should correspond only to the first part of the 'sun-is-present' cycle. Yet, the first 'spike' (top left in Ha5-52) is diametrically opposed to the last (in front at Ha6-1), which seems to imply there are 6 periods between two 'corners'. The problem is far from solved, it seems. We should also take notice of Ha4-11--12, which seem to indicate 6 periods of absent sun respectively 5 with him present:
And then we can see that Ha4-20 stands at both day 180 (if we count one glyph per day) and at day 60. A new 'day' comes beyond day 183, but why is the sun below a 'roof'? Is it an illustration of rain clouds? Or maybe it is the darkness fleeing towards the western horizon. We remember the same kind of problem from earlier:
At number 4 * 25 = 100 and at day 20 there should be a 'knee' (a disorderly point in time when the direction is changed). In Aa1-18 we can now identify tahana 'leaves'. They seem to be only at the beginning (cfr also Ha4-14 in contrast to Ha4-22). |