7. The disposition in Manuscript E makes the explorers go from Hanga Te Pau to Te Manavai and Te Kioe Uri instead of what might be expected, viz.to Te Pu Mahore and Te Poko Uri:
It is Makoi who alone and somewhat later visits the first pair of kuhane stations: "Makoi got up and began to familiarize himself with the (new) land. (This took place) on the fifteenth day of the month of June ('Maro'). He went toward the sheer face of the rocks (titi o te opata), was astonished (aaa), came up to the middle (of the outer rim of the crater), and stood at the very edge. He looked down and saw the 'Pu Mahore of Hau Maka' (on the coast) and said, 'There it is, the hole of the mahore fish of Hau Maka!' He turned his face and looked toward the back (i.e., in the direction of the crater) ..." My idea of Makoi representing Saturn can explain why he first looked in one direction and then in the other - he was standing at the threshold to 'the new land'. Saturn comes before Sun and the first 2 stations should therefore not be visited by Ira if he represents Sun. There is thus some reason to separate the first pair of kuhane stations from those following:
There are no colours in the dark, and I found it interesting to see what would happen if we did not count the stations of Makoi. But I would prefer having Moon at the end of each week, not Mars, and maybe Te Manavai should be 0 (formed like a bird's egg). Maunga Hau Epa would then be number 20.
The first month (and perhaps also the first glyph line on side a of G) could belong at the end of the previous cycle. Mercury and Jupiter are in the 2nd half of the year, while Venus presumably carries the new year baby in her belly (manava) from 'the old land' to the new: ... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child ... (cfr at Time Travel)
Maybe the morning light could not reach down to Te Pu Mahore and Te Poko Uri. And Hanga Te Pau came later, further to the east, and to go there the explorers made a sweeping curve, which probably means 'the henua calendar' - according to the ideas of Manuscript E - should begin later than with winter solstice:
I guess my haú glyph type corresponds to such a final curve. Earlier I have summerized what the haú glyph type might mean: The haú glyphs are characterized by a bent 'branch', marked with 'feathers' on the outside:
The bent 'branch' represents the path of a luminary, beginning at bottom and moving up and clockwise, ending at the tip. The 'feathers' are used to indicate calendrical periods. In the example above (Ab4-53) the 10 'feathers' possibly indicate how the 'summer year' is divided into 10 periods (with 18 days in each period). In another example, below, from the Mamari moon calendar, the path of waxing moon presumably is divided into 15 periods:
If haú is a sign for the final curve, and if the G text has the same view of time-space as evidently is expressed in Manuscript E, then Hanga Te Pau ought to come closely after one of these 3 glyphs:
It could be at Ga3-15, where number 75 may be alluding to 300 / 4 as a sign for the cardinal point of 'landfall'. I have counted from Rei in Ga2-27:
... Makoi got up and began to familiarize himself with the (new) land. (This took place) on the fifteenth day of the month of June ('Maro'). He went toward the sheer face of the rocks (titi o te opata), was astonished (aaa), came up to the middle (of the outer rim of the crater), and stood at the very edge ... Possibly He Maro is beginning with Rei in Ga2-27. If so, then the preceding 57 glyphs should be in 'water' and the front side should begin with Vaitu nui:
And possibly 2-27 was chosen because it can allude to 22 / 7 = 3.14 and also to latitude 27º S. This Rei carries an adjunct which can be imagined as a 'canoe making landfall', and it was used also at Rei in Ga4-17 (where the ordinal number can be read as one more than 400 / 4).
The kuhane moved eastwards (towards sunrise), and evidently this direction took her around 7 fortnights (from 3 Te Manavai up to and including 16 Pua Katiki) - i.e. about as far as to day number 100. 100 could be a kind of Moon quarter in contrast to 75 for a kind of Sun quarter, maybe, because the proportion is equal to 472 / 354. Number 17 (Maunga Teatea) is her turnpoint, and from this 'mountain' the kuhane no longer can follow the path of Moon.  Like meamea the name teatea probably implies a negation because the end of a cycle is hidden behind the beginning of the next (cfr Mgv.: teatea, heavy rain). The triplet of cones resembles the triplet of islets at the beginning of the island (cfr at Parehe), and to reach also the cones the kuhane had to make a sweeping curve southwards. It was time for her to follow Sun, and it must be the Old Sun because Tuu Maheke was to be born later, at Anakena. However, Old Sun seems to be twofold, on the one hand (left) Hotu Matua, the parent, and on the other (right) Kuukuu, the planter. The parent (matua) of course must belong at the end of the previous year, and he will arrive by way of the 'sea', but Kuukuu belongs in spring and 'on land'. At the end he is struck by 'the flipper of the earth turtle' and moved into a cave (before Hotu Matua arrives to the island). |
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