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TRANSLATIONS
The explorers could not fetch fire from Hanga Te Pau by going forward in time, they had to go a long way back instead. Western science is good at predicting what will happen in simple situations, but bad in explaining what already has happened (because situations evolve by complex causes). Ancient mythical science (yes, science) is good at explaining what happens, but refuse to predict what will happen. The Polynesians saw their history in front of them and could draw important conclusions from what they saw. Those who live in the modern civilized world cannot see their own history. Nor can they see into the future. There is no light and it is a dark age. The explorers could not go forward in time to fetch the fire. Nobody can go forward in time, because the future is not yet determined. I try to use mythic science, although I am just a beginner. It is based on both quantitative and qualitative methods. We must count and we must look at the pictures. Western science is using repeated experiments to control quantitative results. We cannot do so, we have to use repeated investigations into pictures and numbers to control qualitative results. For western science repeated experiments which lead to resualts which differ from expectations is a nuisance. For us it is a blessing, because then new knowledge can be gained. Let us therefore investigate what the viri glyphs can tell us when we use the new maps of G. This is my proposed sun map and we should begin with it - the simplest and newest of the maps (but not tried out yet):
These are the glyphs in G which have or may have viri signs:
If Ga1-26 indicates winter solstice and Gb1-6 summer solstice, which has been a hypothesis which earlier argumentations have relied upon, then the distance between them should be days according to the new maps. But the sun map does not occupy the whole G text, only 365 of the glyphs. Beyond Gb5-12 only the moon can be a guide to the G text. The sun calendar is beginning with Ga1-1 and ending with Gb5-12. Both solstices must be in the calendar. Let us see where in the summer (according to the calendar) Gb1-6 is located:
235 is the measure from Ga1-1 and too far away from Ga1-26. The expected number should be around 364 / 2 + 26 = 208 and the difference 235 - 208 = 27 must be explained somehow. Counting from Ga4-3 seems to be numerically sound, because we reach 150 at Gb1-6, and because 279 = 9 * 31 (as if sun can be visualized only during those 9 months he is 'living'). 5 * 30 = 150 and another 5 * 30 will take us beyond Hanga Te Pau. But with 5 * 31 = 155 another glyph (than Gb1-6) must be in the middle. The flanking birds in Gb1-4 and Gb1-12 makes a symmetrical pattern together with Gb1-6 and the 155th glyph Gb1-11:
Arguing in the opposite direction, we should look for glyph number 9 * 30 = 270:
9 * 30 = 270 measures 9 months of the 360 days in a year, while 279 measures 9 months of a year with 372 days. The reversal illustrated with Gb4-33 and Gb5-1 marks an important calendar point, and we have earlier noted how it is located at the beginning of the 4th quarter.
Evidence suggest Gb1-6 is in the middle of the summer and that summer is to be measured according to the sun, with 30 days in each month, beginning with Ga4-3 and ending at Gb5-2:
With a summer extending over only 9 months, midsummer will not come in the middle. An alternative reckoning based on 31 days for each month also begins with Ga4-3 but must have the middle of summer later than at Gb1-6, viz. at Gb1-11. The ordinal number agrees with that in Gb5-11, which marks the end of the sun year.
However, the year would then be too long (12 * 31 = 372) and we have therefore misunderstood. The correct reading should instead be 5 months with 30 days followed by 4 months with 31 days:
We receive confirmation by tagata - the season is fully grown. And then we understand how glyphs should alternatively be read as the end of a 364-night long year:
Gb5-6 has ordinal number 359 instead of the expected 360. What does it mean? To transform the number to 360 we must include the last glyph on side b, which we indeed have concluded also earlier:
But then Haga Te Pau at Gb5-12 will receive number 366, which agrees with a sun year of 365 days - at Gb5-12 the old sun must have ended. |
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