2. The glyph
type which
Metoro named
kiore is
basically
depicting the
same person who
is sitting down
and eating (kai):
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kai |
Ga3-5
(65) |
But he is
not feeding
(growing) in
spite of his
open mouth.
His hands
and feet
are instead
as if
embedded in
the ground
(earth,
henua).
According to
the Egyptian
picture only
the fingers
are in the
ground, and
everything
else is also
different
(straight
legs, elbows
on the
outside,
face down,
earth below,
a female
forming the
arch of the
sky, etc.):
The
god Schu,
who is
reclining at
the bottom,
has his left
foot hidden.
He
personifies,
they say,
the air
between sky
and earth,
and his body
is covered
with
feathers (schut)
as a sign of
this. Maybe
the location
on the other
side of the
equator
changes the
perspective,
from a
female night
sky (Nut)
to a male
'rat' (kiore).
With
kiore at
left it
could mean
he
represents
the back
side, the
night sky. The
rising
maro
string on
the other
side of
henua
(earth) could
then
represent
the front
side, the day sky.
The
constellation
kiore +
henua in
all the
other
rongorongo
texts
(excepting
K) never has
a rising
maro in
front. And
in G the
rising
maro
sign is
missing only
in one
place, viz.
at Jupiter in Gb8-2:
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175 = 7
* 25 |
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Gb2-10
(*0) |
Gb7-31 |
Gb8-1
(*177) |
Gb8-2
(444) |
But there
are 4
feathers in
front
anyhow,
growing from
a henua
in bad
shape.
When Ira
with company
reached the
main land it
happened at
the border
between page
17 and page
18. The 16th
son of Tu
was Tiki
and
according to my guess
day number
448
should represent
the last day
of his rule.
In the G
text Tiki
could
therefore
end with
glyph number
448.
However, the
reversed
manu rere
in Gb8-5 has
ordinal
number 447
(and 8 * 6 =
48):
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14 Wakehau |
Tiki |
Toi |
Rauru |
18 Whatonga |
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420 |
448 |
476 |
504 |
532 = 2 * 266 |
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| Gb8-6 |
Gb8-7 |
Gb8-8 |
Gb8-9 |
Gb8-10 (452) |
17 * 28 = 476
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| Ga1-1 |
Ga1-2 (3) |
Ga1-3 (*476) |
Ga1-4 |
Rauru, the 18th son of Tu, could end at glyph number 504 - 472 = 32, tagata toki:
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| Ga1-26 |
Ga1-27 (*500) |
Ga1-28 |
Ga1-29 |
Ga1-30 |
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| Ga2-1 (*504) |
Ga2-2 |
Ga2-3 |
Ga2-4 |
When we turn from page 17 to page 18 of manuscript E there seems to be allusions to the 17th son Toi:
| Unforgotten are they, these three. |
kai viri kai viri.ko raua ana a totoru. |
p. 17 |
| And therefore this is the (right) land lying there; |
peira tokoa te kainga e moe mai era |
| this is Te Pito O Te Kainga, which also received its name from the dream soul. |
ko te pito o te kainga i nape ai e toona kuhane. |
| The canoe continued its exploration and in a sweep sailed on to Hanga Te Pau. |
hokoou.he rarama he oho te vaka he vari ki hanga.te pau |
| They went ashore and took |
he tomo ki uta.he too |
| the food with them. |
i te kai ki uta. |
p. 18 |
| They pulled the canoe onto the beach and left it there. |
hee totoi i te vaka ki uta he hakarere. |
| Ira sat down with all the other (companions) |
he noho a ira anake. |
Glyph line a2 can be counted as line 16 + 2 = 18 and Toi should be in line a1 as well as on page 17 of Manuscript E. Yet his influence could continue a little while longer (cfr tagata toki in Ga2-1 and totoi on page 18). In contrast the reversed manu rere seems to announce the end of the rule of Tiki one day ahead.
... The Maya New Year started with 1 Pop, the next day being 2 Pop, etc. The final day of the month, however, carried not the coefficient 20, but a sign indicating the 'seating' of the month to follow, in line with the Maya philosophy that the influence of any particular span of time is felt before it actually begins and persists somewhat beyond its apparent termination ...
The concept of 'seating' possibly also explains the posture of kiore, like that of a sitting person:
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kai |
Ga3-5
(65) |
In Manuscript E Ira sat down (he noho).
| Noho 1. To sit, to stay, to remain, to live (somewhere), to wait; ka-noho, you stay! (i.e. 'good-bye', said by the person leaving). 2. Figuratively: he noho te eve, to be calm, at peace; he noho te mana'u, to concentrate on something, to fix one's attention on; ku-noho á te mana'u o te tagata ki ruga ki te aga, the man thinks constantly of his work. Vanaga.
Seat, bench, dwelling, marriage, position, posture, situation, session, sojourn; to sit, to dwell, to reside, to rest, to halt, to inhabit; noho hahatu, to sit cross-legged; noho hakahaga, apathy; noho heenua, countryman; noho kaiga, native; noho kenu, married; noho ke noho ke, to change place; noho muri, to stay behind; noho noa, invariable; noho opata, to stand on a cliff; noho pagaha, badly placed; noho pepe, table; noho tahaga, bachelor, unmarried; noho vie, married, noho no, apathy, stay-at-home, colonist, idler, inhabitant, inactive, immobile, settler, lazy, loiterer. Hakanoho, to abolish, to rent, to lease, to enslave, to dissuade, to exclude, to exempt, to install, to substitute, hostage. Hakanohohia, stopped. Nohoga, seat. Nohoturi, to kneel, genuflexion. Nohovaega, to preside. Churchill. |
Whatonga, the 19th and last son of Tu could end the cycle a further 28 days ahead, at the powerfully drawn niu:
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Ga2-27 |
Ga2-28 |
Ga2-29
(*532) |
Counting in sequences of 28 glyphs seems to agree in general with what we can read from the text:
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27 |
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27 |
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27 |
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Gb8-6
(448) |
Ga1-3
(*476) |
Ga2-1
(32) |
Ga2-29
(60) |
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Tiki (?) |
Toi (?) |
Rauru
(?) |
Whatonga
(?) |
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16 * 28
= 448 |
17 * 28
= 476 |
18 * 28
= 504 |
19 * 28
= 532 |
The coconut tree (niu) thrives at the margin between sea and land. What seems to be month number 13 is a niu glyph in Aa1-13:
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