TRANSLATIONS
Another method to search for indications if Haga Te Pau is meant in Ga5-12 or not, is to use Metoro's words. Next page in the glyph dictionary:
The last vae glyph is Ca13-16, not the vae paupau glyph (Ca12-24). 12 * 24 = 360 (to be compared with 12 * 3 = 36 for the last of the kava glyphs) and 13 * 16 = 208 = 4 * 52. The disposition in the text of Mamari makes it probable that the 6 kava signs are rather close in the time cycle to the 6 vae glyphs. Possibly they together express a division in two halves of the last quarter of the year (or of a part of the last quarter of the year). If we continue to read beyond Ca12-26 we will find a person with a curved leg (Ca13-5):
Metoro said koia ra kua haga hia at Ca12-19, and at Ca12-27--Ca13-1--2 he said a hagahaga - Kua haga te tagata - kua haga. In his mind haga seems to be connected with pau. If paupau = 'curved' (according to Vanaga), then the leg in Ca13-5 could have been called paupau, but Metoro said kua haga. The 'waving goodbye' hands in Ca13-4 and Ca13-6 have a central short straight digit somewhat similar to that in I12-122 (and Ca13-3 may correspond to I12-121):
But in I12-119 and I12-122 the short straight line is close to vertical, while in Ca13-4 and -6 it is leaning. Reflecting on ka-va and va-e I remember from my early age how it was said in the books I read that the alcoholic beverages offered the Indians in exchange for furs was called 'fire-water'. The east Polynesian concept of sun giving both 'fire' and 'water' is here, I think, condensed into the strong drink changing the state of mind. Both in Polynesia and among the Maya ka means 'fire'. In Polynesian water is vai, a word close to vae. I don't know the word for water among the Maya. In rongorongo the kava sign seems to be connected with 'lighting fire'. Changing the order to vaka could mean 'water-fire' rather than 'fire-water'. You could rock your mind by drinking 'fire-water' or be seasick in a canoe. In the 'bulbous leg' (e.g. in I12-122) a foot like a fist could mean 'full' (pregnant). Next development could then be a leg formed like a canoe (vaka) as in Ca13-5, the vessel in which the new sun will travel 'barred' inside until later in spring:
cradle ... framework of bars, cords, etc ... basket ... (English Etymology) Swiftly searching in Tahua for similar 'canoe' legs I find two glyphs:
In Aa6-12 it could be a fisherman:
But if so, then Aa2-7 could be a fishman. Both are persons of the sea (tai - cfr Aa6-8). |