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This is my suggestion:
140 nights (= 3 * 140 = 420 glyphs, 300 of them on side b) are expressed by 3 glyphs per day, and we have recently discovered a 'proof' that 3 means 'moon': ... Then the measurement changes, from solar doublemonths (multiples of 60) to lunar doubleweeks (multiples of 14). 180 = 3 * 60 and 252 = 18 * 14. 60 and 18 represent the sun, 14 the moon. We can conclude that also 3 must represent the moon ... 1296 glyphs in H, and we first can take away 300 + 120 = 420, which leaves us with 876 glyphs, equal to 292 (192 + 100) days with 3 glyphs per day, or equal to 292 + 274 = 566 days if 1 glyph per day applies from Ha3-13 to Ha10-30 and 3 glyphs are to be used otherwise. But that is not what I propose, I think 3 glyphs are to be used for 1 day all over the text in H. What I mean is that 1 glyph per day will explain the 411 glyphs which come beyond Ha3-12 and up to Ha10-30. Let us begin from hipu in Ha7-1 (the first glyph beyond line Ha6 ought to mean something):
Once again we can see how the creator of H avoids glyphs with ordinal numbers indicating the arrival of a dark disorderly time:
The ordinal numbers for the glyphs are counted from Ha1-1, the days from winter solstice. 360 at Ha7-16 will therefore be the last part of day 100 + 120 = 220. This number is expressing the final of the solar cycle by way of 22 (alluding to π) and 10 (the number of months for the sun). It means 360 and 220 are telling the solar year is over in two different ways. The missing glyph Ha10-38 is number 540 = 3 * 180, but the surrounding glyphs do not tell about summer and 3 * 180 is only the consequence of counting triplets of glyphs 60 days beyond 220. Likewise 360 is just a consequence of counting triplets of glyphs and arriving at 220. We need the support from the glyphs themselves to identify the meaning. A 'midnight' henua at 354 (Ha7-10) comes two glyphs after a single henua ora. Together they seem to express the final of the first 'season' followed by the birth of a new sun. Henua ora is a strong sign, we know its meaning - 'recycling' - and it is not frequent. Yet there are 14 + 14 = 28 of them in H:
In order to understand the meaning of Ha7-8 we presumably need to look at the other redmarked four (on side a). Ha11-4--5 we have recently identified as the end of the fishing at Hanga Hoonu:
Counting beyond winter solstice at Hb7-40 (996) the day numbers become as above in the table. If we, on the other hand, use 177 nights as the measure for half a year, we ought to begin 3 days later, which will mean the day numbers above will be reduced. But the message is rather clear - we have reached a limit equal to 10 times 29, a dark time. Given that our day counting is beginning at winter solstice, it means we are on our way to the equivalent of Hua Reva, the 10th kuhane station, and we have come only 12 days beyond sun's disappearance at Ha10-31:
Day 295 is not to be found, it is in the part of the text which cannot be seen. That part is finished just in time to be able to read the finish of sun according to the solar measurement. Expressed in solar month (30 days) sun should disappear at day 300:
Glyph number 600 should be read as 6 (sun), and manu rere could mean the 'spirit' of sun is flying away. Day 301 is one day after sun has left ('one more'). Ika hiku at Ha11-32 is followed by a honu glyph which looks somewhat like tamaiti. But the bottom knob is not there (as yet). In G the order is tamaiti first and then ika hiku:
Autumn equinox comes ca 9 months from winter solstice, i.e. around day number 270. 3 * (270 - 100) = 510 will be at Ha10-8, and listing glyphs before and after we will catch also henua ora at Ha9-31 and Ha10-16:
It seems clear that we by counting 3 glyphs per day will be in harmony with the glyphs. Day 260 explains henua ora at Ha9-31. We find a hipu at day 270 and a ragi honui follows. In Ha10-14 a strange ariki has only 3 limbs. The 4th is not his, and the following henua ora closes the case. 137 days before sun is disappearing he is far from that:
We should accept the situation. From day 140 to autumn equinox at day 270 there are 130 days. 270 is to be understood as 140 + 130, 5 * 28 + 5 * 26. Sun has 10 months to 'live' from winter solstice, then he disappears. |
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