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The Lunar Calendar of Tablet Mamari

Jacques B. M. Guy, 1990. Journal de la Société des Océanistes 91.

Reads the sequence of crescents and attached glyphs on side a of the Mamari tablet (text C) as a lunar calendar with a rule for inserting intercalary nights, building on Barthel's identification of the passage. Pages 135 to 149. The only passage of rongorongo whose function is generally accepted.

MYS0D4CC6RM5DJH · mystery · click to copyMRongorongoArticledoi: 10.3406/jso.1990.2882Checked against the original0

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Source for the Mamari calendar reading.

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Guy, J. B. M. (1990). The Lunar Calendar of Tablet Mamari. Journal de la Société des Océanistes 91. https://doi.org/10.3406/jso.1990.2882
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