Working from the hypothesis that Metoro knew what he was doing when reading the texts for Bishop Jaussen (and that he did his best to deliver an adequate 'translation' of the glyphs) - and furthermore supposing that those who created Manuscript E also knew and tried their best to give the 'true' picture - I find it reasonable to try to fit one of the takaśre glyphs in G to the position in time-space which was labelled Hanga Takaure (Bay of Flies) by the kuhane of Hau Maka. One of the 6 glyph candidates immediately can be distinguished, viz. Ga4-2 which is the only takaure glyph on side a:
The other five are rather closely assembled on side b and they therefore hardly could be connected with Hanga Takaure. We have learnt that haga presumably indicates a resting place, and - furthermore - that Hanga Te Pau very probably is a name for the last day of the year. I think Hanga Takaure is another similar place of final rest (with the connotation of a season ending). There cannot be many takaure glyphs at Hanga Takaure, at the end there should be only one, viz. the last one of them. |
