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'These glyphs probably refer to winter solstice' is a link which leads to the following pages:

 

At winter solstice the sky is low, and in a low position there tends to accumulate water. It is the opposite of up high where the flames of the sun are ruling. One way to read the glyphs at the beginning of line Ca14 is to imagine them as visible only in the part which is above the surface of this water:

glyph numbers counted from Ca1-1
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (363)
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5

It is no real water of course. The glyphs are not drawn with their circumferences closed, there is no 'life' in them. They are abstractions.

Position 363 is the position of Rogo, which explains why we cannot see properly, light has gone out. This state continues first of all up to day 366, we know. Here we can see that also days 367-368 are included (which we also have experience of).

The Rogo glyph (Ca13-20, where 13 * 20 = 260) is 'occulted' at the top, and it is not a matter of 'water'. 6 days (from 363 up to and including day 368) are days when vision is impaired. 363 is first 36 and then 63. 368 = 46 * 8, etc.

 

 

*Ca14-1 represents day 364:

glyph numbers counted from Ca1-1
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (363)
*Ca14-1 (364) *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5

We have recently identified another glyph as presumably representing day 364:

25 49 312
Ca1-26 Ca3-25 (76) Ca14-26 (389)
50 314
364 = 14 * 26

If we go by that, then the day numbers will be as below and rather meaningless:

*Ca14-1 (364) *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5 (368)
339 340 341 342 343

 

 

Furthermore, the peculiar vero in Ca13-19 has a 'double' which connects to the perspective with day 364 as manu kake in *Ca14-26:

glyph numbers counted from Ca1-1
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (363)
*Ca14-1 (364) *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5

Vero in *Ca14-15 comes immediately before the 12th kuhane station (= 12 * 29.5 = 354):

*Ca14-15 (378) *Ca14-16 *Ca14-17
353 354 355

The very short henua in day 354 (the shortest of all such in the Mamari text) symbolizes the low sky roof. The same short 'staff' is also in front in day 355. Hatinga Te Kohe is where the kuhane mistreated the 'bamboo'.

 

 

*Ca14-15 is exactly the same vero type as in Ca13-19:

glyph numbers counted from Ca1-1
Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (363) *Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5 (368)
day numbers counted from Ca1-26
*Ca14-15 *Ca14-16 *Ca14-17
353 354 355

This type of vero has a sign in form of a bulbous bottom, it alludes to Rogo:

Ca13-19 Rogo *Ca14-15

Counting by the sun the day is 1 day before the turning point (363), counting by the moon it is one day before the last night (354 = 12 * 29.5). The meaning is the same, but the numbers are different.

 
Ca13-19 Ca13-20 *Ca14-15 *Ca14-16
362 363 353 354

Different text segments use different rulers.

 

The last sentence is important and we must remember it.