TRANSLATIONS
7+6+7=20 was the pattern I thought suitable for arranging the glyphs Ca2-1--20. According to the parallel texts in H/P/Q, however, Ca2-7 belongs to the group above. Ca2-1--6 must (according to the parallel texts) instead be the last part of a group of glyphs beginning with Ca1-19:
For instance: Pa1-1--15 corresponds to Ca1-1--18, Pa8-22--35 to Ca1-19--Ca2-6 and Pa9-10--21 to Ca2-7--19. Ca2-20 has no corresponding glyph in P.
Very interesting are the glyphs in parallel with Ca2-11, how different leg designs anyhow seem to mean about the same thing. Vai with double rim in C and P, with single rim in H and Q.
Ca2-20 is like Ca2-12, a repetition of an earlier glyph (Ca2-15 respectively Ca2-10) and without any corresponding glyphs in H/P/Q. H and Q have once again single-rimmed vai, while in P tagata with a special type of elbow ornament seems to carry a similar meaning. Hand gestures point both forward (Ca2-13, Pa9-15--16, Ha10-3 and Ha10-7) and inwards (Ca2-14 and Ca2-19, Pa9-14, Ha10-2), while in Q the description is different. The main point, though, is the structure of the glyphs in C revealed by the parallel texts:
How does the new information harmonize with earlier suggestions? Answer: there is no major collision. But Ca2-6 ought to belong to the 3rd group with Ca2-5, which forces the red-marked changes below:
We must now introduce yet another parallel text, viz. one in N (Small Vienna Tablet):
Nb4-109 (redmarked) is similar to Aa2-3--4:
In Friday we have this kind of vai (without 'flashes') too:
In Bb2-37 the situation presumably is the same:
The word hihoga presumably means 'transformation':.
Bb2-32--33 makes us remember Ca5-9--10 and te pito (Ca5-20):
And - interestingly - in Ca4-26--27 (and Ca5-6) we have the same type of glyph as in Ca2-16--17 (with parallels), what Metoro normally calls tamaiti (child):
In the 23rd period of the Keiti calendar for the year 'tamaiti' occurs:
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