6. But before Ava Rei Pua had been forced to stand still there were other mana events: ... Honga worked his mana in the fishing grounds. (List of five fishing grounds that belong to Hotu and Honga.) Teke worked his mana in the fishing grounds to the left side. (List of nine fishing grounds that belong to Hotu and Teke.) ...
Gb4-25 (Saturn who is creating the 1st half of the year, the 'cap') and Gb4-29 (Mercury who is covering - like the head gear of the Mad Hatter - the 2nd half of the year, the 'cup') are both hau tea glyphs but with different ure signs:
42 * 5 = 210 and 42 * 9 = 378:
There are 5 + 4 = 9 glyphs from Gb4-24 to Gb4-33 which possibly could refer to the 9 fishing grounds of Teke. The first 5 of them could then be the same 5 fishing grounds as those which belonged to Honga. Moon has shorter months ('legs') than Sun and therefore she needs a few extra steps to keep up with the paces of Sun. 354 - 9 = 345 (= 15 * 23 = 5 * 69), and at Gb4-24 we can count 42 * 4 = 168. 345 = 11½ * 30, and ½ * 30 + 9 = 24 = ⅔ * 36. ... 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) ... Probably the variant of marama in Gb4-24 (which has an extra sign in front) basically means full moon. We can compare with Hb9-27 in Monday:
The mana fishing grounds are listed in the following order:
The pattern is (4 + 1) + (5 + 4) = 5 + 9 = 14, if we consider also where the full stops are located. These probably correspond to adjuncts (cfr at Adjuncts) in the rongorongo system of writing. I have with red marked another (extraordinary) other such sign in form of a comma. With red I have also indicated Hanga to show how words can be slighty deformed (here from Honga to Hanga) as a possible other way of 'translating' a rongorongo adjunct. 354 + 14 = 368 (= 168 + 200). The first 14 fishing grounds seem to relate both to the king's and the queen's canoes. Only later is the canoe of the queen forced to stop : ... Hotu replied to Honga, 'Recite (rutu) ('powerful incantations') as though the ten brothers of the chief (ariki maahu) were one whole (?).' The ten recited with all their might. This is what they recited: 'Let all movement (? konekone) cease!' They recited and sailed on swiftly: Honga, Te Kena, Nuku Kehu, Nga Vavai, Oti, Tive (corrected for 'Sive'), Ngehu, Hatu, Tuki, and Pu (corrected for 'Bu'). He worked mana in the fishing grounds. (Naming of two fishing grounds.) ... These are the 2 fishing grounds from where the canoe of the Queen was forced to stand still:
14 + 2 = 16, and 368 + 2 = 370, a day of Jupiter - immersed among fishes of the Procyon type (with what looks like a feather inside, suggesting darkness):
Possibly Gb5-17 (day number 370 + 1) is where the canoe of Moon is released to continue its journey. 371 = 354 + 17 (equal to the ordinal number in the line for Gb5-17) = 364 + 7. Furthermore, 371 = 1.5 * 314 - 100. Te Hina is the first fishing ground, which agrees with what we can see in Gb4-24, I therefore made an attempt to show the possible connections between the first 5 + 5 fishing grounds and the glyphs, and I also added a few comments. I think there in general is a reasonably good agreement:
The planetary numbers are different, though, but perhaps we could consider 24 as equal to 1 (because the cycle is about Sun):
This exercise should make us hesitate before stating anything firmly regarding the possibility of finding Tahitian star pillars beyond Gb4-24. |
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