Mercury - always glyph number 1 in the line - is only partly visible (also at Ca1-8). Sun is here the one who is 'down in the earth' (puo), definitely not visible as yet (but full of life - the outline is drawn complete). It seems as if Moon is the one who is separating light (at left from us seen) and night (mea ke). With Mars at Ca1-7 (kahi) life (spring sun) returns. We move fast in time, because next there is midsummer (Mercury as Rogo). The 1st pillar of spring is Moon and therefore she should be the one who separates heaven (light) and earth (darkness). But the vertical imaginary beam is at left (in the past), and presumably represents the division between the old and the new year. The K text has not much in common, in Ka1-8 (Mercury) has a 'dead' fish at right, not drawn with a closed perimeter (cfr also Rogo at Ca1-8):
In K the text flows from Ka1-1 to Ka1-12 and then there is a vacant space, appropriate for the time beyond the 12th and last month if we count with 30 days in each. Notably Mars in Ka1-7 is of the type tagata rere. Instead of a head (which has been lost) there is now a thread. His life cycle is finished (his elbow ornament is formed as tao - that's where his head went, I suppose). To the right lies the dark autumn (henua with two horizontal lines across). The hanging 'dead' fish in front at Ka1-8 looks a little like the kahu in Ca1-7. Except - there are no fins (signs of moon, life, light) and the inverted henua ora has no vertical (poporo) center line:
The dead fish is coming from an ihe tau sign with a straight horizontal base, Mercury is at summer solstice. In Tahua the first 12 glyphs describe it in yet another way, but the triplet of quarters is a structural feature common with K:
Ihe tau signs appear all the way through Aa1-9--12, but the first two are 'cracked', Aa1-9 in one place and Aa1-10 in two places. In A1-11--12 the top of the ihe tau signs are drawn with closed perimeters (and with bulges, possibly indicating pregnancy). A waning crescent in Aa1-10 is being released from the elbow - the waning season of Sun is complete and a little moon is born. In C there is only a hint of the 'crack in time', with henua (Ca1-10) open a little at center right:
The pair of manu rere are exceptional, because their wings are not meant for flying. Possibly we should count with 20 days here - 9 * 20 = 180 and 12 * 20 = 240. With Ca1-13 comes a great gap in time. We can see the old (left) figure 'in person' while the little sign at right is only conceptual as yet. 13 * 20 = 260. Then follows a Rogo glyph with legs - he moves again (and the crack at right in henua has been mended):
Fire fingers and a hua come with Jupiter, then Venus seems to enter one of her dark phases. Perhaps Ca1-16 illustrates spring and Ca1-17 autumn. Saturn in Ca1-18 interacts with a bent henua, which we can guess refers to the Moon, cfr in Aa1-18:
There is a tagata rere at right in Aa1-15. |
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