Evidence indicates that hupee glyphs are located where 'time stands still', when a new great season is on its way to be born, such as for instance at a solstice. When the pendulum of time slows down to a full stop it is because the old season is dying away and a new one lies ahead. This new season is opposite to the previous one. When the pendulum starts to move again it goes in the other direction. Visually it can be expressed as a figure turned upside down:
The old season ends with number 16. In the 2nd list of place names (in Manuscript E) item number 17 has been given a capital letter to indicate a new season is on its way to be born:
Hanga Ohiro (number 20) is at the end of the period which begins with Ohiro, the first night of a month. The 'bay of anchorage' (haga) for the 20 nights to be counted in a month (according to the Gilbertese) is Hanga Ohiro. However, if the counting begins 4 nights earlier (which the Hawaiian moon calendar apparently tells us to do), then the 20 days to be counted in a month will end at Hanga Kuokuo (the 'white harbour' of full moon). Here (at number 16 / 20) the 'canoe of time' stops for a while, and the hupee sign presumably signifies: 'counting time has stopped in order to give birth'. In a month the waning moon phase lies ahead and likewise in a year its 2nd half is about to begin. |
