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TRANSLATIONS
The new map over side b of B is probably trustworthy, tempting us to go on with counting also the glyphs on side a:
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| Bb3-31 |
Bb3-32 |
Bb3-33 |
Bb3-34 |
Bb3-35 |
Bb3-36 |
| 167 |
168 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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| Bb3-37 |
Bb3-38 |
Bb3-39 |
Bb3-40 |
Bb3-41 |
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6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
We can now understand its location, it stands at the beginning of summer. Bb3-41 is glyph number 9 which is suitable for te pito (which Metoro said was here) and a ghostly darkness (though temporary because it is summer time) sinks down upon earth (nuku):
| Nuku 1. Pau.: nuka, crowd, throng. Ta.: nuú, army, fleet. Mg.: nuku, a host, army. 2. Mgv.: nuku, land, country, place. Sa.: nu'u, district, territory, island. Churchill. |
Metoro's words at Bb3-35 are curious:
| Gutu 1.
Lips, mouth, beak, snout (goutu); gutu ahu, swollen lip;
gutu hiti, thick lip; gutu mokomoko, pointed lip; gutu
no, vain words; gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips; gutu raro,
lower lip; gutu ruga, upper lip. Gutugutu, snout. P Pau.:
gutu, lip, beak, bill. Mgv.: gutu, the chin, the mouth of
a fish. Mq.: nutu, beak, snout. Ta.: utu, lip, mouth,
beak, snout. Gutupiri, attentively. Gututae, attentively;
gututae mekenu, a small mouth. Gututika, tattoing on the
lips. 2. Pau.: Gutuafare, to save, to economize. Ta.: utuafare,
family, residence. 3. Pau.: Guturoa, to grimace, to pout. Mgv.:
guturoa, to grimace. Churchill. |
| Huri 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga.
1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill.
Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill. |
Anyhow, a kind of fundamental change (huri) certainly occurs close to Bb3-36. Even though there is no haga rave sign here the season is not straightforward but taking a new direction.
Our attention should then go to Bb5-20 and Bb5-22:
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| Bb5-19 |
Bb5-20 |
Bb5-21 |
Bb5-22 |
Bb5-23 |
Bb5-24 |
Bb5-25 |
We can see what looks like a haga rave sign hanging from the elbow in Bb5-20, and I also saw it when classifying glyphs. These are the 20 haga rave glyphs on side b of B according to my glyph catalogue:
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| Bb1-4 |
Bb2-5 |
Bb3-19 |
Bb5-9 |
Bb5-13 |
Bb5-20 |
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| Bb5-34 |
Bb5-35 |
Bb6-20 |
Bb6-24 |
Bb6-25 |
Bb9-19 |
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| Bb10-16 |
Bb10-27 |
Bb10-42 |
Bb11-3 |
Bb11-30 |
Bb12-11 |
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| Bb12-36 |
Bb12-39 |
Most of the haga rave glyphs in lines b5--b6 are obvious signs.
Bb5-20 could be an attempt to say Haga Te Pau (although the signs come in the opposite order). But to be sure we must count. The numbers must agree:
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71 |
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158 |
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| Bb3-33 |
Bb5-20 |
Bb9-16 |
| 1 |
73 |
232 |
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| Bb5-19 |
Bb5-20 |
Bb5-21 |
Bb5-22 |
Bb5-23 |
Bb5-24 |
Bb5-25 |
| 72 |
73 |
74 |
75 |
76 |
77 |
78 |
Bb5-20 is far from being in the center, but not far from being ⅓ of the way through the 8 * 29 days of summer. Why shouldn't we start counting later than Bb3-33? The old season was sinking away towards the end of line b3. But that would mean number 73 would become smaller, and 232 / 3 = 77.333...
75 is a better number to start with, and - more important - Bb5-22 is in the center of the group. 74 + 75 + 76 = 225 = 9 * 25 = 15 * 15:
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| Bb9-1 |
Bb9-2 |
Bb9-3 |
Bb9-4 |
Bb9-5 |
Bb9-6 |
| 219 |
218 |
219 |
220 |
221 |
222 |
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| Bb9-7 |
Bb9-8 |
Bb9-9 |
Bb9-10 |
Bb9-11 |
| 223 |
224 |
225 |
226 |
227 |
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| Bb9-12 |
Bb9-13 |
Bb9-14 |
Bb9-15 |
Bb9-16 |
| 228 |
229 |
230 |
231 |
232 |
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| Bb9-17 |
Bb9-18 |
Bb9-19 |
Bb9-20 |
| 233 |
234 |
235 |
236 |
A fully grown season (tagata) acknowledges we have counted good. Bb5-22 is located at a cardinal point, a point where the direction of the journey is changing.
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73 |
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149 |
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| Bb3-33 |
Bb5-22 |
Bb9-9 |
| 1 |
75 |
225 |
There must be another cardinal glyph at position 150:
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73 |
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74 |
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74 |
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| Bb3-33 |
Bb5-22 |
Bb7-17 |
Bb9-9 |
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75 |
150 |
225 |
Bb7-17 is the last of the 4 'normal' such glyphs. We have now established a structure for what presumably defines 'summer' on side b:
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73 |
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73 |
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73 |
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| Bb3-33 |
Bb5-22 |
Bb5-23 |
Bb7-17 |
Bb7-19 |
Bb9-9 |
| 1 |
75 |
76 |
150 |
151 |
225 |
We can see full grown seasons (tagata) at all 3 cardinal points. Their left (from us seen) legs show time is moving:
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| Bb3-33 |
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| Bb5-22 |
Bb5-23 |
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| Bb7-17 |
Bb7-19 |
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| Bb9-9 |
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