1. My arguments lead up to the idea that hanau
in Ga1-12, a Sun-day, is the beginning of a lunar calendar for the
year
ending with Gb5-12:
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340 |
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10 |
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Ga1-12 (13) |
Gb4-33 (354) |
Gb5-1 |
Gb5-12 (366) |
342 = 6 * 57
(= 18 * 19) |
12
= 6 * 2 |
354 =
6 * 59 |
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31 |
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72 |
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10 |
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Gb5-13 (367) |
Gb6-16 |
Gb8-30 |
Gb8-30 (1) |
Ga1-11 |
106 = 2 * 53 |
12
= 2 * 6 |
106 + 12 =
118 = 2 * 59 |
However, the primary reading of the text is rather the
following, viz. beginning from Gb8-30:
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10 |
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340 |
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Gb8-30 (1) |
Ga1-11 |
Ga1-12 (13) |
Gb4-33 (354) |
12
= 6 * 2 |
342 = 6 * 57
(= 18 * 19) |
354 =
6 * 59 |
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10 |
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31 |
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72 |
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Gb5-1 |
Gb5-12 (366) |
Gb5-13 |
Gb6-16 |
Gb8-30 |
12
= 2 * 6 |
106 =
2 * 53 |
118 = 2 * 59 |
There are 8 glyph lines on side a and up to and
including the last glyph in line b4 it becomes 8 + 4 = 12 lines,
which is in harmony with 12 * 29˝ = 354 days.
From hanau in Ga1-12 there are 5 glyphs
which end with a figure inside an oval and it will be
our next glyph to discuss.
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Ga1-12 |
Ga1-13 |
Ga1-14 |
Ga1-15 |
Ga1-16 |
Basically it resembles the full moon
oval in the Mamari moon calendar, and only seldom do
we find ovals with signs inscribed inside:
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Ca7-24 |
Ga1-16 |
The figure at the top end of the oval in
Ca7-24 surely is a kai person, and the position
high up could mean he has arrived as high as he can.
The eating cannot go on any longer and he is therefore
depicted as if he had entered inside (uru) a
cavity, I think. A crack in time is evidently illustrated both
by the broken beam at bottom and by the open space between them and
the figure up high. I have a glyph type named koti
('broken') and it normally shows a vertical break:
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Ca7-24 |
koti |
Koti
Kotikoti. To cut with scissors
(since this is an old word and scissors do not seem to
have existed, it must mean something of the kind).
Vanaga.
Kotikoti. To tear; kokoti,
to cut, to chop, to hew, to cleave, to assassinate, to
amputate, to scar, to notch, to carve, to use a knife,
to cut off, to lop, to gash, to mow, to saw; kokotiga
kore, indivisible; kokotihaga, cutting, gash
furrow. P Pau.: koti, to chop. Mgv.: kotikoti,
to cut, to cut into bands or slices; kokoti, to
cut, to saw; akakotikoti, a ray, a streak, a
stripe, to make bars. Mq.: koti, oti, to
cut, to divide. Ta.: oóti, to cut, to carve;
otióti, to cut fine. Churchill.
Pau.: Koti, to gush, to spout.
Ta.: oti, to rebound, to fall back. Kotika,
cape, headland. Ta.: otiá, boundary, limit.
Churchill. |
The full moon night is
Omotohi (no more 'sucking', omo). The oval
sign could indicate a stop, a restraint (tohi):
Omo To suck; omoaga,
bulky cloud; ragi omoaga cumulus; omoomo; to
suck repeatedly, to suckle; omotahi, to win
everything at a game (lit: to suck whole): omotahi-mai-á
e au, he has cleaned me out; omotohi, full (of
the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon is full.
Vanaga.
Rima omo, infidelity, faithless,
unfaithful. Omoomo, to smack the lips, to suck the
breast, to smoke tobacco, to taste of; hakaomoomo, to
suckle, to paint. Churchill.
Ta.: Omotu, an ember, a coal. Mq.:
komotu, omotu, firebrand. Churchill. |
Tohi Omotohi, full (of
the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon is full.
Vanaga.
Mgv.: tohi, to cut breadfruit
paste. Ta.: tohi, a chisel, to cut, to split. Mq.:
tohi, to cut up. Sa.: tofi, a chisel, to split.
Ma.: tohi, to cut, to slice. Churchill.
Ha.: kōhi.
1. To gather, as fruit; to break off neatly, as taro
corm from the stalk with a stick or knife; to split, as
breadfruit; to dig; splitter, as stick, stone, knife. Nā
wāhine kōhi noni, the noni-gathering women (an
insult to Pele, perhaps likening her disposition to
sour noni fruit). (PPN tofi.) 2. Fat, rich, as
food; fatness. Nā kōhi kelekele o Kapu'u-kolu, the
rich foods of Ka-pu'u-kolu (Kaua'i, famous for
abundance). 3. To fill or heal, of a wound. Ke kōhi maila
ka 'i'o, the flesh is beginning to heal. 4. To hold
back, check, restrain: to strain, especially as in
childbirth, to travail; to hold or hold back by pressing a
person's arm, as in withholding consent, or as in urging
someone not to be generous; labor pains, travail. Fig.,
agony, fear. Cf. haukōhi, kāohi, ho'o kōhi.
Also ha'akōhi. 5. Prolonged, as a sound; long. He
kōhi ka leo, the sound is long. Wehewehe. |
Possibly also Ga1-16 has an oval depicting the full
moon, because according to the previous discussion its number could
be 13, and at new year it should be a full moon night, at least it
was so on
Hawaii (where also a ceremony of 'breaking' took place):
... The correspondence
between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the
Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony
of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple
to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua
tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter
eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November.
Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its
circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back
for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice
(= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and
only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the
full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...
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Gb8-30 |
Ga1-1 |
Ga1-2 |
Ga1-3 |
Ga1-4
(5) |
Te
Pei |
Te Pou |
Hua Reva |
Akahanga |
Hatinga
Te
Kohe |
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Ga1-5 |
Ga1-6 |
Roto Iri Are
(6) |
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Ga1-7 |
Ga1-8 |
Ga1-9 |
Ga1-10 |
Ga1-11 |
Ga1-12 |
Tama (7) |
One Tea (8) |
Hanga
Takaure (9) |
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Ga1-13 |
Ga1-14 |
Ga1-15 |
Ga1-16 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
On the other hand, the pattern from Ga1-5 up to
and including Ga1-14 suggests another distribution, which will
put Ga1-16 in position number 15:
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Ga1-5 |
Ga1-6 |
Roto Iri Are
(6) |
Tama (7) |
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Ga1-7 |
Ga1-8 |
Ga1-9 |
Ga1-10 |
One Tea (8) |
Hanga
Takaure (9) |
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Ga1-11 |
Tagata
Gagana (10) |
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Ga1-12 |
Ga1-13 |
Ga1-14 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
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Ga1-15 |
Ga1-16 |
14 |
15 |
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