TRANSLATIONS
If Hanga Te Pau is the end of the sun, then haga rave glyphs could mean 'end'. With this idea in mind, we can contemplate the end of the takaśre season, i.e. Haga Takaśre. These are the takaśre glyphs in G:
Ga4-2 we have earlier read as a glyph marking that 3 takaśre periods are in the past.
If that is correct, then Haga Takaśre could be here. We are far from midsummer, but once I imagined Ga4-1 was a 'parallel' to the noon tagata:
84 instead should allude to the final of the moon season:
The 7th period is the one immediately beyond the period in which mago apparently informs us about the same event:
6 is the sun number, telling about summer lying ahead. 7 is the moon number, telling about the winter in the past. The overlap is due to 7 coming after 6. There may have been a fear of 'cracks in the carapace', which would explain not only the overlap in winter finishing after summer has begun, but also why the 2nd half of the sun journey does not come when we turn the tablet but a bit into side b:
The takaśre season ought to be the 1st quarter. The 5 remaining takaśre glyphs lie rather close to each other on side b:
I have black-marked Gb3-5 because 295 can be read as 10 lunar months. The following 20 glyphs evidently constitute the first of 3 groups ending in a similar way:
Glyph number 324 (= 9 * 36) is Gb4-4, which I believe I once classified as takaśre because of the sign in its middle. 3 feathers at left and 3 at right indicates a pivotal point of some kind, and the ordinal number agrees. The ordinal numbers in Gb3-24 may refer to Gb4-4. Gb3-30 (number 320) is also important. A 'nut' is growing at left and a reversed hau tea is at right, both telling about a black season. A reversed tapa mea is two steps at left. Both the white light (hau tea, moon) and the red light (tapa mea, sun) have vanished. Soon the light will shine, however, because Gb3-30 has a little sign of the son of the sun at bottom right, and we recognize the glyph type from Ga2-26:
By the way, I notice how the hau tea glyphs apparently come in pairs:
The season of takaśre probably is the one immediately before the light (sun) returns. Gb4-4 (324) could mean the takaśre season is at its apex. It will possibly end at Ga4-2 (85). From Gb4-4 up to and including the last glyph on side b we have 471 - 323 = 148 glyphs, and adding those to 84 arriving before Ga4-2 we reach 232 = 8 * 29, maybe indicating the duration of the season of the 'spirits' (flying insects). |