Te Poko Uri Te Poko Uri is, it seems, the female counterpart of Te Kioe Uri. Pokopoko means womb or any deep concave object. A female rat is kio'e pokohata. According to Manuscript E the kuhane stands at the rim of Rano Kau when she gives it the name Te Poko Uri ('the dark abyss').
The blue glyphs (which of necessity must occupy positions between twice 29 and twice 29.5 etc) presumably are to be paired with the red glyphs. Rei in Ga5-6 is number 117 = 2 * 58 + 1. The kuhane station as defined by 4 * 29.5 = 118 should therefore be interpreted by looking at both Ga5-7 and Ga5-8. Behind the fat bird there is a viri sign. Below the wings it must be dark (uri). It is a female bird, because we can see her egg below. It is a season of swift 'running' (horo), full of new life, it is summer (hora). The 'neck' (gao) is long in Ga5-7 and all 'eat greedily' (gaoku). Viri in Ga5-11 has an overhanging front upper part like that in Aa5-7:
1000 glyphs in A means 500 in G. Without pushing any argument we should notice that Ga5-11 obviously is connected with another viri at Ga7-1 and that they together measure out a distance of 50 days:
Aa5-7 is located in the middle of the year, because 364 glyphs = 182 days and te pito motu (Ab8-43) is located at the beginning. The 18th period is beginning at Ga5-10 (where 5 * 10 = 50). |