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It can now be stated that the pair of vaha mea and mago glyphs we have been studying in the G text have their counterparts in H, but with a twist. Instead of a straight and rising shark with an open red gap 'vaha mea' followed half a year later by a shark which is bending around (mago), these events come in the opposite order:

open jaws
 180 181
Ga1-4 (5) Ga7-16 (186) Hb9-63 (1123) Ha7-31 (375)
vaha mea mago mago vaha mea
182 days 182 days

We could name Hb9-63 mago ke (a 'different' shark) because of the extra sign (mea ke). It is a fat shark, and so is vaha mea in Ha7-31. The sign of no longer lean indicates waning.

The lean sharks (Ga1-4 and Ga7-16) belong to the first half of the year, when sun is waxing. The fat sharks (Hb9-63 and Ha7-31) belong to the back side of the year, the night side, the domain of the moon.The fat vaha mea is similar to the lean one in standing at the beginning of the season, and the fat mago is similar to the lean one in standing at the end of the season. Or rather one night beyond - presumably the mea ke sign can here be read as a sign of negation.

Instead of vaha mea (the beginning of the red sun season) the rising shark in Ha7-31 can be imagined as a kind of vaha tea (the opening up of the white moon season), an idea which comes to mind when studying tagata in Ha7-32 - the head alludes to hau tea:

*Ha7-29 *Ha7-30 *Ha7-31 (375) *Ha7-32 *Ha7-33 *Ha7-34
183 = 375 / 3 + 58 184

In G we have 472 - 182 = 290 days which lie outside the 'mea' season', 10 times 29 suggests 10 months in the dark.

In H we have ca 1296 - 3 * 58 - 375 = 747 glyphs outside the mea season. 747 / 3 = 249 nights. Probably we must take away 42 of them (when sun is down in the underworld), and 249 - 42 = 207 = 9 * 23 (32 reversed).

Twice 207 = 414 (= 9 * 46 = 18 * 23), and here we have the underlying reason. About half the tamaiti cycle (413 days) is given to the moon. 207 (moon) + 42 (underworld) + 182 (sun) = 431 (4 followed by reversed 13).

To be more exact: 1296 - 3 * 58 - 374 = 1296 - 174 - 374 = 748 glyphs belong to the 'tea' season and 174 + 374 = 548 to the mea season. 748 + 548 = 1296. Converted to days it becomes 748 / 3 = 249⅓ respectively 548 / 3 = 182⅔ days. 249 + 183 = 432. Half a year is a fraction more than 182 days. This fraction then causes the natural 249 days of the moon to also become a fraction more.

249 can be read as 24 * 9 = 216 days, which converted into glyphs becomes 216 * 3 = 648 which is the number of glyphs both on side a and on side b of H. End of numerical arguments.

Why is there a shark in Hb9-63 and not a tamaiti, or the reverse, why is there not a shark at Gb7-3? Following the moon (in G) does not invite to thinking about what sun is doing those 5 dark days outside 'law and order' (between winter solstice and tamaiti). Moon continues her way as usual and does not care. But the child is important for her. Therefore tamaiti must be mentioned in the text, he has a station for himself. Which automatically excludes a shark image.

The text of H seems to be more preoccupied with sun than moon, even mentioning those 42 nights when sun goes deep. When the new sun child afterwards miraculously is born, he is on his way upward like a shark from the depths of the sea. Later he will walk on land. A shark on land should be introduced when he is down in the sea.

 

 

At the beginning of Monday two strange creatures personify waxing and waning moon:

waxing moon waning moon
Hb9-23 Hb9-24 Hb9-25 Hb9-26

The 'arm' can be said to illustrate how the 'seasons' of waxing and waning moon are divided into weeks.

Hb9-23 has 7 'spines' at the back and Hb9-25 has 6. Furthermore, 7 * 28 = 196 and 6 * 28 = 168, which results in 196 + 168 = 364 = 13 * 28.

Waxing moon is lean (hungry and growing) while waning moon is fat. Waxing moon has a little black eye and waning moon a rather big white eye. The beginning of creation (also of a month) happens in the dark (as in the night of new moon).

The eye of waxing moon cannot be anything else than black, because that is her beginning. What is at the beginning will continue for 'life'. Therefore the eye of waning moon may be depicting full moon. Waxing begins with new moon and waning with full moon - Omotohi, when the 'sucking', omo, period is broken off, tohi, and she must be weaned.

Moon is waxing during half a month and 9 * 23 (in Hb9-23) = 207 = half 414.

In Hb9-25 we can count 9 * 25 = 225 = 15 * 15, alluding to how waning moon is beginning with full moon (the 15th night of the month).

 

The numbers are remarkably in harmony with the structure and with the glyphs. The basic reason must be that over the ages the 'fittest' structures survived, those which appeared to be in harmony with reality.

The 7-day week has survived. Fierce competition could have been offered by a 5-day week (a natural choice becasue of the number of fingers). I suspect 5 = 'fire' derives from such an ancient 5-day week.

4 * 7 = 28, the number of light moons in the month. But they did not think 4 * 7, but 2 * 14, with the simpler operation 'doubling' instead of multiplication. The basic number in this moon system was the week. By the process of 'doubling' then was derived: 7, 14, 28, 56, 112, 224, etc.

For the sun a slightly longer month with 30 days was envisioned. Half 30 is 15, equal to the number of the full moon night. In such a full moon night sun will be exactly opposite in the sky. Sun and moon are in this system opposites.

I remember that Posnansky proposed a 5-day week to explain the triplet of 'daysigns' which adorns the Gateway of the Sun:

I have reordered them so that his number 3 comes first. The other two have split staffs and should come later.

In view of the 58 incredibly dark nights at the beginning of everything, though, his number 2 should be the first daysign. We can see that is is a 'condor' (a 'god') - i.e. a supernatural being - and his crown is hidden by cause of his striving to get up. Instead of a bird hidden in his wing he has a fish. Also his legs are fishy.

Day signs 3 and 1 are more human in appearance, and their crowns are visible. Number 3 has a puma head in front of his crown, a land creature.

We should consider the possibility of a year which has 3 seasons. It does not mean sun has 3 'wives', he still has only 2, because sun is present only in day signs 3 and 1. In day sign 2 it is his 'spirit' which is visiting the underworld.

3 fingers is a common feature in these daysigns and in the rongorongo glyphs. 3 * 5 = 15, and 'upgraded' one level we get 3 * 50 = 150, half a greater solar month. We can understand that there are 24 half-months in a 360-day year, equal to 72 five-day weeks.

15 * 15 = 225 in this perspective is the 'square' formed by solar half-months. During the phase of waning moon we should turn to the sun instead.