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TRANSLATIONS
Back to the glyph dictionary. I have not continued the line of thought in the dictionary any longer. There is no definite suggestion there (so far) as to how to interpret the numbers of days in the explorers' story. With two 84-night winter seasons probably divided into triplets of 28-night long months, it would not be strange if also summer was divided similarly. (The front of the Pachamama skirt was also possible to divide in three parts.) 2 * 96 = 3 * 64 is a good sign, because 64 is the 6th term in the growth series, if it begins with number two: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ...
2 * 91 = 182 is not possible to divide into 3 equally long parts. If we measure the length of the explorers' journey, we have to reduce the number of days by the time they rested. If we count (96 - 7) + (96 - 5) we reach 180, which can easily be divided into 3 * 60. Manuscript E probably wanted us to understand this numerical message. It is also a good sign, but not quite as good as 3 * 64. Maybe the old ones who created Manuscript E had forgotten 192? Their statement pointing at Haga Takaúre and Haga Hônu as resting places, on the other hand, hardly was a new invention. They did not invent the names and I believe haga means a place to rest. In the table above I have inserted the true time numbers - not those ordinal numbers we in the west are using. The truth is that time starts at position zero (not at position 1). They invented 0, not we. We still cling to our old habits. The Mayas had time names beginning with a number, always beginning with zero. 19 Vayeb, for instance, was their 20th month, but its number was 19. When the clock strikes 12 the old day has vanished, a new day has dawned. Zero is formed like an egg. The clock should not strike 12 but 0 - it should be silent. The even numbers are (according to the Pythagorean school) female and the odd numbers male. Haga should be female and have even numbers. 14 Haga Takaúre and 20 Haga Hônu could have been assigned their locations according to this insight. At any rate their numbers indicate they are 'moon' stations, another female sign. The Aztec day names are 20 and beyond an initial group there are 14 which may refer to the sun's 'fortnight' in the underground:
With this in mind, it becomes fairly obvious that the ground between 14 Haga Takaúre and 20 Haga Hônu is the high ground, when sun stands at his highest, the time when 'sharks walk on land'. Half summer apparently is 'high summer'. The last kuhane station on high ground must be 19 Taharoa - its number tells us that it is over. Therefore 14 Haga Takaúre is the first station on high ground and 20 Haga Hônu the first station beyond the high ground.
The new table is assymmetric and therefore not telling the whole truth. Revising the table we could try to use the sign of definite appellations (nga, te) and move 6 Te Pei and 7 Te Pou together with the first 6 kuhane stations, assembling a group of 8 (moon) stations:
From 20 Haga Hônu a season 'in the sea' commences. Sun has vanished. Starting at time zero we can count kuhane stations as 4 + 4 + 6 + 6 + 4 = 24. Maybe 8-13 refers to 'a.m. sun' and 14-19 to 'p.m. sun'? 7 Te Pou (Sirius) announces how sun is just around the corner. This scheme can once again be compared with the Aztec day names.
5 Miquitzli (death) has the same position as 19 Taharoa (the great gowing down):
8 Hua Reva should mean that the sun baby now is rising. Hakareva is to hang up and reva is to hang like a flag. Churchill's note about the trade wind is interesting, in his mind he seems to be moving on to 1 Ehecatl:
There are 6 + 6 = 12 summer stations in the kuhane journey, but only 6 Aztec corresponding days names. 24 of the 28 kuhane stations are located (according to Barthel 2) inside the 12 month long calendar for the year. 12 out of the 24 kuhane stations applied to the year presumably cover summer, i.e. half the year. But only 8 of 20 Aztec day names tell about land (sun, light, life) rising out of the sea in the east and the activities before it again goes down in the sea in the west. I have now added 'deer' and 'rabbit' (typical land creatures) beyond the death of the sun and before sea (Atl) makes it all disappear:
Likewise, according to A the day is not gone with the sun sinking below the horizon in the west, a last period of the day is enabled by man's fires (Aa1-35):
The 'time of Sirius', the announcer of sun's imminent arrival in the east, also has a reversed tapa mea, because sun has not yet arrived:
The 'red cloths' (tapa mea) of 'fire' are 7 in number according to Aa1-16--36, because man has added one:
It is difficult to translate the Aztec daynames definitely into kuhane stations. What definitely can be stated, though, is that the Aztec days begin with light (sun, land, life) arriving from the deeps, like an alligator crawling up onto firm ground. He comes from the east, and east comes before west. On Easter Island, too, east comes before west. But the kuhane, being female, comes from the other direction. She comes in the 'night'. The reversal normally taking place when moving from north across the equator does not change east from east and west from west. By introducing a female discoverer of the island there will be a reversal anyhow. |
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