TRANSLATIONS

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I decided to finish the haga rave 'chapter' in the glyph dictionary, but not without adding an 'excursion':

With a high degree of probability the 365th glyph in the Small Santiago text marks the final of the solar year:

Gb5-12

The sign at left (haga rave) should here be read out as haga and together with the clubfoot sign (pau) it is quite clear that Haga Te Pau is the meaning of the glyph, the bay where - according to Manuscript E - Ira and his companions landed in order to explore the island before king Hotu Matua could arrive.

In the sacred geography of the island Haga Te Pau is a bay on the southern (dark) coast, and its location corresponds to the last month of the year. At solstice sun does not move, and he takes a rest in this bay.

The journey of the sun probably was anciently counted as 6 * 59 = 354 days, after which sun rested for 10 days. 365 is the very last day of the year, the day when the old 'fire' (sun) has been extinguished.

Haga rave glyphs indicate a 'bay', implying a place of 'rest' (in peace). Maybe the haga rave sign once was used in sea charts (rib charts) showing places with safe anchorage.

Excursion:

A quest for the locations of Haga Takaúre and Haga Hônu in the text of Small Santiago (G).

The structure in the kuhane journey indicates the last part as being outside the claendar:

1st quarter		2nd quarter		3rd quarter		4th quarter
He Anakena (July)		Tagaroa uri (October)		Tua haro (January)		Vaitu nui (April)
*Te Pei*	*Te Pou*	*Tama*	*One Tea*	*Mahatua*	*Taharoa*	*Nga Kope Ririva*	*Te Pu Mahore*
Hora iti (August)		Ko Ruti (November)		Tehetu'upú (February)		Vaitu potu (May)
*Hua Reva*	*Akahanga*	*Hanga Takaure*	*Poike*	*Hanga Hoonu*	*Rangi Meamea*	*Te Poko Uri*	*Te Manavai*
Hora nui (September)		Ko Koró (December)		Tarahao (March)		He Maro (June)
*Hatinga Te Kohe*	*Roto Iri Are*	*Pua Katiki*	*Maunga Teatea*	*Peke Tau O Hiti*	*Mauga Hau Epa*	*Te Kioe Uri*	*Te Piringa Aniva*
*On the other side of Mauga Hau Epa* is the 'Land of the Moon':**				Outside the solar calendar
				*Oromanga*	*Hanga Moria One*
				*Papa O Pea*	*Ahu Akapu*

It corresponds to the last part of the text in G, the twice 53 glyphs beyond Gb5-12. 53 = 2 * 26 +1, and we can 'translate' 26 glyphs in this part of the G text as equal to half a month, as equal to one kuhane station. 26 instead of 28 could indicate that the residences of the current king (Oromanga and Hanga Moria One) are empty - there is no current king.

Beyond Ahu Akapu, with a name suggesting - among other things - a stone anchor (aka) with a hole (pu), the cycle will begin anew at 0 Nga Kope Ririva.

Aka

1. Anchor: he-hoa te aka, to drop anchor. 2. Root of certain plants (banana tree, taro, sugar-cane). 3. To be paralyzed by surprise. Vanaga.

1. Root; aka totoro, to take root. P Pau., Mq.: aka, root. Ta.: aa, id. 2. (āka) anchor. 3. Causative (haka). Churchill.

The root of a banana tree was named aka. The banana form is that of a canoe. When Ure Honu was highest up in his banana plantation he may have been digging at Ahu Akapu, I guess.

... Another year passed, and a man by the name of Ure Honu went to work in his banana plantation. He went and came to the last part, to the 'head' (i.e., the upper part of the banana plantation), to the end of the banana plantation. The sun was standing just right for Ure Honu to clean out the weeds from the banana plantation.

But he was weeding, because the sun was standing just right for that. He was therefore not working at the end of the year, but much later, in Ko Ruti:

... As next step in analysing the story about Ure Honu and the skull of the old king, let us locate in time the weeding of banana plantations. It is an activity due in Ko Ruti, during the 1st half of summer:

2nd quarter	3rd quarter
Tagaroa uri (October)	Tua haro (January)
Cleaning up of the fields. Fishing is no longer taboo. Festival of thanksgiving (hakakio) and presents of fowl.	Fishing. Because of the strong sun very little planting is done.
Ko Ruti (November)	Tehetu'upú (February)
Cleaning of the banana plantations, but only in the morning since the sun becomes too hot later in the day. Problems with drought. Good month for fishing and the construction of houses (because of the long days).	Like the previous month. Some sweet potatoes are planted where there are a lot of stones (pu).
Ko Koró (December)	Tarahao (March)
Because of the increasing heat, work ceases in the fields. Time for fishing, recreation, and festivities. The new houses are occupied (reason for the festivities). Like the previous month, a good time for surfing (ngaru) on the beach of Hangaroa O Tai.	Sweet potatoes are planted in the morning; fishing is done in the afternoon.

New houses were also constructed ...

The new 'house' means the new season for the sun, probably the season beginning at summer solstice.

A 'leap' probably had to be done in order to jump over the 'crack in the carapace'. If this 'crack' is in the west, beyond the 3rd quarter, it could coincide with the last 4 kuhane stations (or the last 5 if we include te pito).

The dimension of the kuhane version of the 'crack' is 4 / 28 = 1 / 7. It means the 'carapace' must be 6 / 7, exactly as our 'map' above shows.On the other hand, measuring in 7 steps could very well be the way we should move when identifying haga rave glyphs, because they are female in character:

7 Te Pou

14 Hanga Takaure

21 Rangi Meamea

0 Nga Kope Ririva

But then we will miss 20 Hanga Hoonu, which cannot be right. We should rather divide the 'moon' journey in two halves (like when Marduk cut 'night' in half), 'waxing' and 'waning':

waning	new moon	waxing
*7 Te Pou*	15 Poike	*20 Hanga Hoonu*
*14 Hanga Takaure*	15 Poike	*27 Ahu Akapu*

The moon is the mirror of the sun, when sun is growing moon is declining and the reverse. At winter solstice there is a full moon, at summer solstice a new moon (I suppose).

Hanga Takaure - according to this interpretation - is the 'harbour' where waning moon is going to rest (summer solstice), while Hanga Hoonu will come a quarter later (at autumn equinox).

Hanga Te Pau lies one month earlier than Te Pou, and the 'moon carapace' continues beyond autumn equinox up to the end of the year (and beyond). Hanga Te Pau is, though, not located on the kuhane map - it is a sun station, but not a moon station.

With new moon at Poike the full moon cannot, though, be located on the map, because the 29th station (Te Pito) cannot be defined - it is (paradoxically) in the dark. There are only 28 stations on the map:

*Te Pei*	*Te Pou*	*Tama*	*One Tea*	*Mahatua*	*Taharoa*	*Nga Kope Ririva*	*Te Pu Mahore*
*Hua Reva*	*Akahanga*	*Hanga Takaure*	*Poike*	*Hanga Hoonu*	*Rangi Meamea*	*Te Poko Uri*	*Te Manavai*
*Hatinga Te Kohe*	*Roto Iri Are*	*Pua Katiki*	*Maunga Teatea*	*Peke Tau O Hiti*	*Mauga Hau Epa*	*Te Kioe Uri*	*Te Piringa Aniva*
*On the other side of Mauga Hau Epa* is the 'Land of the Moon':**				*Oromanga*	*Hanga Moria One*
				*Papa O Pea*	*Ahu Akapu*

It means sun must be present. At full moon he is in the background, only. Presumably the 365th day of the year, outside the 'carapace of the sun', should coincide with full moon.

28 / 2 = 14 and therefore Poike cannot be painted black. With sun present it cannot be black. Unless there is a frightening and unusual solar eclipse.