'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.