4. In Gb4-1 hau tea is reversed, which probably indicates the beginning of a dark season. There is only one other such reversed hau tea in the text, viz. Gb5-1:
Indeed, there is no more reversed hau tea glyphs in any of the rongorongo texts. It is a Sign. Ringiringi (Mercury) is half 'male' and half 'female', with 26 days in the season of light (land) and with 26 days in the season of darkness (water) - according to my guess earlier.
Remarkably it seems to agree with the pictures in Gb4-8 and Gb5-1, which both are Mercury days. Kara etahi in Gb4-8 looks as if someone has broken his neck and in front there is a kind substitute - an ure drawn as a separate entity:
Ringiringi should be the negation of Ringi, the powerful worm: ... A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth ... Maybe Ringi is Mars (Kuukuu). From there we can continue the game:
The first snail, the little one, was placed in the west and became Moon. It was Moon who raised the shell a little, enabling Old-Spider to see the worm (Mars, Ringi). It was Ringi who generated the salty sea from his sweat, and then he died. Sweat is salty and according to the Chinese - and Cecilia Lindqvist's Tecknens Rike - the salty taste is connected with Mercury:
The colours are jumbled because of the necessary yellow for Saturn, the colour of earth in China (cfr The Yellow Emperor). This idea I have from Hamlet's Mill. The lower half-shell became earth and the upper the sky. The 2nd snail, the bigger one, was placed beside the earth and became Sun. Saturn (earth) was there before Sun. Jupiter, Nonoma, comes after Ringiringi (the weak one):
Day number 407 is 8 days beyond the end of Jupiter's synodical cycle at day number 399:
Uure (Venus) is easily recognized as related to ure, and at right in Gb8-17 there is an ure:
With the end of the season of Makoi we are back again, and 2 * 8 = 16 can be imagined as a sign to indicate the beginning of the season beyond the powerful first part of summer, a day of Mercury:
The change from side b to side a comes after 459 + 13 = 472 days, and 459 can be counted as 4 * 59 = 236 (half 472). Makoi should be Saturn and if we assign number colours counted from the beginning of the front side he will be located in a Saturday:
It pleases me to see Saturn as tagata toki, the creator of 'a new world'. Likewise to find him with hand turned back in Ga2-8. The earlier colours defined by position from Ga2-1 do not convince. Saturn (earth, ebb, the lower half-shell) possibly corresponds to summer because he generates a new Sun (sky, upper half-shell). |
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