2. In my chapter Eye in the Mud there was a flatfish playing games with a lobster. ... Probably a flat fish must belong at the pole of winter solstice where the sky roof is low, and the lobster should therefore be at the opposite end, in a hole at midsummer ... The pair of strings crossing henua in Ka1-7 and in Ka4-10 are horizontal (flat). But 'May 31 and 'August 4 were not dates for the solstices. And we cannot convert these RA dates to a pair of dates for the solstices because the distance between them should then have been ca half a year. Thus the idea of a flatfish should refer to something else than a solstice, e.g. the horizontal surface of the 'sea'. Or maybe the 'bottom of the sea': ... On came the monsters, came Pupa vae noa, and Poroporo tu a huanga, Toke a kura, and Tuna nui himself - they all came rushing on the land. And Tuna stripped off his loincloth, and he held it up; at once a mighty wave reared up and swept toward that land. Then Huahega shouted to her son, to Maui tikitiki, 'Quick now! Show them yours! Pull it out!' Did Maui then as Huahega told him, did as his mother said. That wave fell back, the great wave of the monsters soaked away. The bottom of the sea was bare, and all the monsters floundered on the reef, they flapped in pools ... Perhaps we should add another 72 / 3 = 24 days in order to reach 'August 28 and glyph 72 + 24 = 96, at the center of the week beginning with Kb1-1 (where the head, mata, has vanished):
And maybe we should compare with the 8 days from Gb1-6 to Gb1-13 (where the glyph numbers could correspond to the Gregorian day numbers in K). Also in Gb1-10 a head has disappeared:
'August 31 (at Kb1-7 - a position similar to that of Ka1-7) is Gregorian day 243 and comparing with day 386 at 'January 21 (Gb1-13) we will find a difference of 143 days (which is too much for representing the time from a midnight culmination to heliacal rising). 'May 23 (Gregorian day 143) is where puo ('hilled up') could express an idea of covered by mud:
143 + 243 = 386 = 2 * 193. Alterf (λ Leonis) was at RA day 143 in rongorongo times: ... Hevelius has drawn a dark Sign where the nose of the Lion is touching the nose of the Lobster. He has placed κ Leonis in the mouth of the Lion together with Alterf ...
And Kb3-14 (π) is glyph number 143 (64 days later):
There is no star at Kb3-14 and at front in the following glyph there is a mea ke, and then the face (mata) of the figure in Kb3-16 is completely gone. |
