If we continue
counting another 18 glyphs ahead we arrive at the ua in
the 20th period:
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14 |
16 |
17 |
13 |
20 |
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Eb4-23 |
Eb4-40 |
Eb4-41 |
Eb4-42 |
Eb5-14 |
Eb5-15 |
Eb5-16 |
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94 |
111 |
112 |
113 |
127 |
128 |
129 |
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1 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
Ordinal number 129
for ua (counted from the beginning of the calendar) gains in
meaning if we consider that the first wavy wing glyph (in period 3)
has ordinal number 29:
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Eb2-23 |
Eb4-22 |
Eb4-23 |
Eb4-40 |
Eb4-42 |
Eb5-14 |
Eb5-16 |
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29 |
93 |
94 |
111 |
113 |
127 |
129 |
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- |
- |
1 |
18 |
20 |
34 |
36 |
There should be some kind
of relationship between the wavy wing sign and ua glyphs.
Ordinal number 29 (and -
we can infer - 129) indicates the dark new
moon night, not in disharmony with how we have interpreted ua
glyphs so far. The only ua glyph in K was number 29 counted
from Kb1-14 (viri at the beginning of the 2nd half up to the 'gnomon'
at 100).
36 at ua in Eb5-16
(counted from the 2nd of the wavy wing birds) could mean the
1st half (of the 2nd half) is finished (according to how there are 36 glyphs in
each half
of the Mamari moon calendar).
36 does not necessarily point at
the 360
days in a regular sun year. Together with ordinal number 16 in line Eb5
the reading is more likely to be the end of a growing moon season,
presumably 210 nights long.
In K ua was glyph number 3 *
36 = 108 (counted beyond the 1st Rei) and the structure of the
K text indicates ua stands at the end of the sun (108 = 6 * 18), beyond
which 6 * 14 = 84 glyphs for the moon follows.
What seems clear
is that ua marks the end for the 'sun' ('summer') season.
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Eb2-23 has 'moon feet'
- not the feet of 'high summer', where the feet have a 'male position' (even
if the beak indicates the 2nd half of the year has begun). Possibly
the 'male position' indicates the 'ruler'.
The 'wavy wing' in Eb2-23 is like
that in Eb5-14, not as thick and high as in the 4 glyphs in between.
Possibly this is a sign similar in meaning with 'moon feet'. Such 'bird' feet (or
rather position of the feet) are more powerful at right, as if to allude to
the 2nd part of the year.
18 + 16 = 34 as in the ordinal
number for Eb5-14 (which obviously has a moon character). A sign of moon
flying high follows 16 glyphs after the sun oval flying high. Eb5-15--16
therefore may indicate how also moon has arrived to its descending mode. The
ordinal numbers indicate this.
When I wrote: "... ua marks
the end for the 'sun' ('summer') season " I had also moon in thought. It is
becoming more and more difficult to write, because of the intended ambivalence
in pictures and numbers, which carry more information than can be expressed in
normal sentences. The more meaning the signs are loaded with the harder it
becomes to transform the rongorongo texts into alphabetical ones.
I have to invent new terms, like
'moon feet', to be able to carry on. Next page:
What is the
glyph number for the special ua in the 17th period if we
count from the beginning?
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13 |
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2 |
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15 |
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Eb4-23 |
Eb4-37 |
Eb4-40 |
Eb5-14 |
Eb5-15 |
Eb5-16 |
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94 |
108 |
111 |
127 |
128 |
129 |
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1 |
15 |
18 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
Remarkably it is 108
= 6 * 18, i.e. the same number as that for the only ua glyph in K. It can
hardly be a coincidence.
It was in relation to
glyph number 186, the 'dark' mauga, we defined the winged sun
birds in Eb4-22--23 as middle (93 * 2 = 186). At glyph number 150
(Eb6-2) we located the end of the 'light' mauga calendar:
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1st half |
2nd half |
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73 |
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73 |
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|
Eb1-37 |
Eb4-4 |
Eb4-5 |
Eb6-2 |
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1 |
75 |
1 |
75 |
186 - 36 = 150. If
we reduce with another 36 (for the glyphs Eb4-23--Eb5-16) we have
114 left. 114 = 6 * 19 (which sounds ominous for the sun):
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2nd half |
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16 |
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16 |
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16 |
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20 |
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Eb4-5 |
Eb4-22 |
Eb4-23 |
Eb4-40 |
Eb4-41 |
Eb5-16 |
Eb6-2 |
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76 |
93 |
94 |
111 |
112 |
129 |
150 |
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18 |
18 |
18 |
21 |
75 = 3 * 18 + 3 * 7. Eb4-4--5 mark the middle of the calendar
year (according to the 'light mauga'). The 1st 'half' (3
periods) of the
2nd half of the calendar follows the rule of the sun (18) while
the 2nd 'half'
(another 3 periods) follows the rule of the
moon (7). In this perspective ua in Eb5-16 is the last glyph
for the
sun.
25 can now be
perceived as 18 + 7, and 150 as 6 * 25 = 6 * (18 + 7).
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