Before entering the 'detour' it
should be noted that possibly there
are 3 vertical straigth lines in
this glyph, two of them small inside
the hanging down ovals.
If so, then it is rather unclear
what they could mean. The central
long one is
obvious, it can be used to
illustrate e.g. that Gb1-21 is
standing between 314 and 268 (to
take one of all the possible
interesting numbers). Its
use would then be similar to manu
kake, as in the following
example:
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30 days beyond Gb1-21 comes a
haś glyph with 7 + 12 = 19 feathers:
|
glyph numbers are
counted from honu at Gb6-26 (and with Gb8-30
counted twice) |
|
314 |
 |
29 |
 |
86 |
 |
|
Gb1-21 (315) |
Gb2-25
(345) |
Gb5-14
(432) |
|
118 = 4
* 29.5 |
This haś could indicate the
end of the 50 day long dark period between the morning and evening
stars. 2 * 25 = 50.
The rising Venus fish at Gb5-14 has
ordinal number 432, equal to the number of days in the H text.
584 - 314 - 30 = 240, i.e. Gb2-25
seems to have been positioned with care.
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19 feathers could mean 190 days,
maybe divided into 70 + 120 days. 240 - 190 = 50, and the 19 feathers could
show what lies 'at left'.
190 + 260 = 450 =
472 - 22 = 432 + 18.
Ordinal number 345 looks like an
allusion to the Egyptian basic Pythagorean triangle.
315 + 345 = 660 =
300 + 360.
Next page:
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The difference in length
between the 472 days of G and the 432 days in H can be perceived as
40 inserted days beginning where H has Friday and G has the
rising Venus fish:
|
glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30 |
|
|
 |
84 |
 |
|
38 |
 |
|
Gb2-25 |
Gb2-26 (282) |
Gb5-13 |
Gb5-14 (368) |
Gb6-24 |
|
126 = 18 weeks = 86 + 40 days |
|
glyph numbers and days counted from
Ha1-4 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Hb9-45 |
Hb9-46 |
Hb9-47 |
Hb9-48 |
Hb9-49 |
Hb9-50 (1107) |
|
368 |
369 = 1107 / 3 |
In H the new cycle is beginning at 'one more' day after day 368
(which number can be read as 36 combined with the perfect number 8,
a
suitable number for the end of a solar cycle).
It would be unlucky to end a
calendar where 'time ends'. It is much better to let the end of the
calendar coincide with the beginning of next cycle.
In G the end of the cycle comes at
Gb5-12, where 5 * 12 = 60, and where the ruling planet is Mercury (as if it was quicksilver which had run down into the pau
foot):
|
glyph numbers
are counted from Gb8-30 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb5-6 |
Gb5-7 |
Gb5-8 |
Gb5-9 |
Gb5-10 |
Gb5-11 |
Gb5-12 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb5-13 |
Gb5-14 (368) |
Gb5-15 |
Gb5-16 |
Gb5-17 |
Gb5-18 |
Gb5-19 |
|
Jupiter
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
The rising Venus fish in Gb5-14 is
like Venus in day 369 in H - it is beyond the end of the old year. Although
there is still no light - the 'feather' sign is inside the fish and
cannot be seen from the outside.
Counting from Friday in H there are
64 days to the beginning of the season of light (at Ha1-4), 192
glyphs = 64 days. In G the dark season has been extended to 40 + 64
= 104 = 8 * 13 days, and 40 can therefore be read as equal to 5 * 8.
If we move from the rising Venus
fish at Gb5-14 to honu at Gb6-26 (winter solstice), we will
move 409 - 368 = 41 days ahead. If the sequence of planets
continues, we will encounter 5 Venus days, 5 * 7 = 35. Honu
will then be a Jupiter day, quite in order because Jupiter means
'father light' and at Gb6-26 a new 'light' will be born.
In H there are only 63 days left
from Friday to the end of side b. In a way it is logical to have
Friday at day 369 instead of at day 368 as in G. 369 + 63 = 432 =
368 + 64. The last day on side b will also be a Friday, and Saturn
is pushed away to the beginning of side a.
If honu at Gb6-26 should be
a day ruled by Jupiter, then it follows from the 40 inserted days
added in G that the first of them must be a Venus day.
368 at Venus in Gb5-14 is not the
natural place for her, and she has been forced to take that position
in order to get Jupiter into the important winter solstice position.
In H she has no such restriction
and she can be at her natural place, at 'one more' than the end of
the old cycle. Venus is the planet of procreation.
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During 40 days and 40 nights the
rain poured down and all land was submerged. Could the creator of the G text
have read the Bible?
The string of planetary rulers is
a welcome new tool for us. With Venus at 368 (in G) and with haś
(Gb2-25) coming 87 days earlier, it cannot be a Venus day. 7 * 12 = 84, i.e.
it must be a Mars day (quite suitable for a feathery - fiery - glyph). Mars
is bringing 'fire', that is his role, and the evening star will then come
alight:
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
Gb2-21 |
Gb2-22 |
Gb2-23 |
Gb2-24 |
Gb2-25 |
Gb2-26 |
Gb2-27 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
A flame (tao)
sign is at the top of the Sun glyph (Gb2-23, where 2 * 23 = 46 and where 23
indicates 'one more').
Odd ordinal numbers
in the glyph line seems to indicate 'one more' - i.e. 'birth', and even
numbers 'completed' - i.e. 'death'.
4 of the 'planets'
of the week, on the other hand, are 'procreative' and 3 'exhausted'.
The Sun glyph has
maro at right, it means a 'negation' of the 'flame' at the top - the
fire is extinguished.
We cannot work with the planets
automatically, it seems, because another haś comes 8 days earlier
(not 7):
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb2-14 |
Gb2-15 |
Gb2-16 |
Gb2-17 |
Gb2-18 |
Gb2-19 |
Gb2-20 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb2-7 |
Gb2-8 |
Gb2-9 |
Gb2-10 |
Gb2-11 |
Gb2-12 |
Gb2-13 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb1-26 |
Gb2-1 |
Gb2-2 |
Gb2-3 |
Gb2-4 |
Gb2-5 |
Gb2-6 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb1-19 |
Gb1-20 |
Gb1-21 |
Gb1-22 |
Gb1-23 |
Gb1-24 |
Gb1-25 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
|
Gb1-12 |
Gb1-13 |
Gb1-14 |
Gb1-15 |
Gb1-16 |
Gb1-17 |
Gb1-18 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb1-5 |
Gb1-6 |
Gb1-7 |
Gb1-8 |
Gb1-9 |
Gb1-10 |
Gb1-11 |
|
Venus |
Saturn |
Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
7 * 67 = 469
implies that the week days will alternate over the cycle of 472 (or 471) if
we mechanically let them work their away.
The last of the 'detour' pages:
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If Gb2-25 marks the end of the
dark period before the evening star will rise, then we ought to
look 263 glyphs beyond in order to find the next dark period,
the 8
nights between the evening and morning star appearances of
Venus:
|
glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
(and Gb8-30 is counted twice between
Gb6-25 and Ga3-11) |
|
|
86 |
|
38 |
|
 |
134 |
 |
|
Gb2-25 |
Gb5-14 (368) |
Gb6-24 |
Gb6-25 (408) |
Ga3-11 |
|
126 |
136 |
|
262 |
262 is close to 263, and odd
numbers are unlucky and should be avoided. Let us now inspect the
surroundings of Ga3-11:
From the glyphs it seems to be rather
clear that there are 260 days to be counted between haś at
Gb2-25 and the dark glyph Ga3-10 (where 261 = 9 * 29). We ought to
redraw the picture:
|
|
86 |
|
38 |
|
|
132 |
 |
|
Gb2-25 |
Gb5-14 (368) |
Gb6-24 |
Gb6-25 (408) |
Ga3-9 |
|
126 |
134 |
|
260 |
260 (instead of 263) + 10 (instead
of 8) = 270. Ignoring the 40 days from Gb5-14 to Gb6-25, we can
count 86 + 134 = 220.
A possible
summary of the Venus phases on Easter Island:
|
phase |
observed periods |
periods in the 'map' of G |
|
morning star |
263 |
313 |
284 |
314 |
|
black |
50 |
30 |
|
evening star |
263 |
271 |
260 |
270 |
|
black |
8 |
10 |
|
sum |
584 |
584 |
Between haś in Gb2-25
and Ga3-10 there are 260 glyphs (days), and from the curious
Gb1-21 to haś in Gb2-25 there are 30 days.
|
584 - 284 = 300, maybe a sign
that the morning star is not documented in G:
 |
298 |
|
|
Ga3-20 (80) |
Gb2-24 (379) |
|
1 |
300 |
