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My inspiration for the distribution of the number of days in the Easter Island calendar originated from the Mayan calendar:   5 Tzek 6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol 9 Ch'en 10 Yax 11 Sac 12 Ceh 200 13 Mac 14 Kankin 15 Moan 16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu 19 Vayeb 1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz Each month had a glyph of its own. There were 18 months with 20 days in each, together spanning 360 days. The 19th and last of the months was special in having only 5 days. After studying glyphs, names and other aspects (ref. mainly Gates and Kelley) I arranged the months into the pattern above, with 10 redmarked months for 'summer', and with 'winter' being divided in two equal parts by the 19th exceptional 5-day month. 200 + 80 + 5 + 80 = 365.

The Maya Indians had several calendars, the one I have used here is their calendar over the year (haab). It was used in conjunction with the more famous tzolkin (for their sacred year), which was composed by the numbers from 1 to 13 prefixed to one of their 20 daynames, for instance as 13 Ahau - the last of the 13 numbers conjoined with the last of the 20 daynames (Ahau). This gave 13 * 20 = 260 possible dates according to the tzolkin. In the picture below (ref.: Midonick) is explained how a more definite date is generated by combining tzolkin with haab: Also the ordinal number in the month according to the haab calendar was prefixed (see B cogwheel). But the counting began with 0 instead of with 1 (cfr for instance 1 Imix in the A cogwheel, the tzolkin). The last (19th) haab month (Vayeb - or as spelled in the picture: Uayeb) had only 5 days, and its highest number therefore became 4. Otherwise the highest number in a month was 19. Months were defined in the haab calendar, not in the tzolkin.

Changing the latitude to that of Easter Island ought to rearrange the pattern at least by increasing the number of days for winter and decreasing the number of days for summer. Certainly the Easter Islanders were aware of this fact. A little detail had caught my attention: The Pokoman indians (who also counted with 20-day months) had a special term (cah-vinak) for 80 days. 'Winter' was, according to my arrangement of the Mayan months 80 + 5 + 80 = 165 days. Those Pokoman 80 days, I guessed, referred to the 80-day periods of 'winter'. Increasing the number of 'winter' days should increase the 'cah-vinak' of Easter Island. The rongorongo writers would surely have chosen 84 'nights' instead of 80, I thought, increasing 'winter' by 8 nights and reducing the 'summer' days with the same number. With 6 'winter' months (the Easter Island calendar had 12 months) instead of 8 and with 84 nights instead of 80 the result became 28-night months instead of 20-day months:   Maya 4 20 80 Easter Island 3 28 84 From this the length of the 6 (instead of 10) 'summer' months were easily calculated as necessarily being each 32 nights long:   Maya 10 20 200 Easter Island 6 32 192

6 instead of 8 'winter' months means 'sun' instead of 'moon. The winter (moon) north of the equator becomes summer (sun) south of the equater.

Changing from 20 day winter months (Maya) to 28 night months (Easter Island) harmoniously suggests changing from 'sun' to 'moon'. 8 (moon) * 20 (sun) is changed to 6 (sun) * 28 (moon).

But the Mayas had the same length for their months all over the year (excepting Vayeb). Maybe this fact convinced the Easter Island calendar creators to chose 16 for summer, a number which combines sun and moon, because the growing moon is the result of new moon having met with the sun and been radiated all over:

...when the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas'...

192 is also the number of glyphs in K, which I earlier have reconstructed as *97 + *95. Earlier I have furthermore suggested that the K text cannot cover the whole year, only the summer half. The reoccurrence of 192 for the number of summer days (in the deduced kuhane calendar) is a fact which strengthens my reconstructed number of glyphs in K.

And vice versa, of course, meaning that the reconstructed number of glyphs in K implies a probable common view shared between the creator of the K text and the creators of the kuhane story.

In G the 32 periods of summer is a construction similar to the 32 days for each of the 6 summer months according to the proposed kuhane calendar. Given a common view, each G period will be 6 days long, a good number implying sun of course.

168 for the number of nights in winter is also a number we recognize from the rongorongo texts:

7. The obvious sign of 'moon' in Eb5-11 (and surrounding glyphs) should make us remember from the vai part of this dictionary how at the beginning of the 6th period moon and maro probably signify the end of dark winter: 6 Only 2 glyphs. Moon (winter) is 'finished' (maro, GD67, with 4 'feathers'). Eb3-7 Eb3-8 Counting from Eb3-8 to the 'moon mauga' we need 84 glyphs: 82 Eb3-8 Eb5-11 Eb5-12 41 124 125 1 84 1 This is hardly a coincidence, 84 is a most important number in the rongorongo texts (as we have noted several times earlier in this dictionary and elsewhere in this site). We had better work with 42 (half 84), though: 40 40 Eb3-8 Eb4-11 Eb4-12 Eb5-11 1 42 43 84 40 40 Eb5-11 Eb6-17 Eb6-18 Eb3-8 84 125 126 167 (1) The total number of glyphs in the calendar (167) is subdivided into 4 equally long sequences of glyphs if we use Eb3-8, the 'moon mauga' and the 4 central glyphs in the table above. 4 * 42 = 168, but Eb3-8 is counted twice. With 6 for sun and 7 for moon, 42 can symbolize their union (6 * 7 = 42) and 4 * 42 = 168 = 24 * 7, as if signifying 24 weeks. If we add these 168 nights to the 186 for the very last mauga glyph (Eb2-13) we get 354 = 6 * 59 (or 6 double-month cycles of the moon, given 29½ nights for each such month). Coincidence? Hardly! The 'moon mauga' and the 'last mauga for the sun' cooperate. 186 - 168 = 18 and 168 - 18 = 150. The 'moon mauga' is of central importance.

354 was also the result of my counting on the skirt of Pachamama. 168 + 186 = 354 = 6 * 59 (sun combined with moon), to be compared with 168 + 192 = 360.

Maybe the Pachamama creators thought along similar lines (as the Easter Islanders) in extending winter from 2 * 80 to 2 * 84 nights. Also they lived south of the equator.

Instead of prolonging summer with a compensating 8 days they seem, however, to have decided for extedning summer with only 2 days, thereby establishing a year with exactly 12 lunar months.

According to my reconstruction of the kuhane calendar, there should be a division into three + three equally long months (with 28 nights each) before and after new year, not a divison into halves (as I thought earlier when counting glyphs in E). The cycle turns around beyond Eb6-17 and starts again with Eb1-37:

Eb1-37		36
		6	167
b2		27
b3		38
b4		42
b5		35
Eb6-19		19
		17

	26			26			26
Eb3-8		Eb3-35	Eb3-36		Eb4-25	Eb4-26		Eb5-11
1		28	29		56	57		84
	26			26			26
Eb5-11		Eb6-3	Eb6-4		Eb2-6	Eb2-7		Eb3-7
84		111	112		139	140		167

19 - 4 = 15 (b6) +  6 (b1) = 21. 26 - 21 = 5, i.e. Eb2-6. 27 - 7 = 20 (b2). 26 - 20 = 6 (b3), i.e. Eb3-7. Why did I not arrive at Eb3-7 when earlier counting halves? 35 - 11 = 24 (b5) + 16 (b8) = 40. 19 - 18 = 1 (b6) + 6 (b1) + 27 (b2) = 34. 40 - 34 = 6 (b3), i.e. Eb3-7. A mistake was done earlier. I have not scrutinized the glyph dictionary pages beyond hua poporo yet.

Interesting is the appearance of haga rave in Eb2-7, corresponding to what looks as the beginning of Hatiga Te Kohe: