TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

In the glyph dictionary I have suggested that 15 means full moon:

... Only one haú glyph is found in the calendar, viz. Ca7-15. The number of feather marks are also 15, a number which indicates that the 'season' of full moon has arrived. In Ca7-16 the bulging shape at right depicts the form of the full moon, though yet only partly visible ...

After the latest efforts to understand the Mamari moon calendar I think of Ca7-16 as indicating the end of waxing moon. 15 is in this perspective the number immediately before. Full moon follows after Ca7-16, not Ca7-15. On the other hand, we can read Ca7-15--16 as a pair indicating only one night:


Ca7-15	Ca7-16
*Otua*

Considering the other pair, Ca7-23--24, with a mirrored order in the pair, the full moon 'season' seems to be illustrated in two ways:

3			'branch' not broken, but the 'fruit' is heavy
	Ca7-15	Ca7-16
4	'branch' 'breaks'
		Ca7-23	Ca7-24

In the middle of the full moon season the branch breaks. Why should it be broken? Ripe fruits are heavy and gravitation makes the apple fall (as Newton understood), otherwise the whole branch will break.

Inside the moon shape in Ca7-16 there is a sun, not the full moon. Inside the sun canoe in Ca7-23 there is the sign of full moon. The 3rd and last waxing moon period ends with the pair Ca7-15--16, it is the final of the reign of moon. In periods 4-5 it is the sun who rules.

I must revise the text in the dictionary somewhat:

Yet, the text in my dictionary does not say anything about the final of moon reign. Maybe haú glyphs signify end of moon reign? Or maybe end of reign in general?

In the following dictionary page Eb6-12 is discussed:

In Keiti, in the 24th and last period of the calendar for the year, there is a haú glyph (Eb6-12):


Eb5-29	Eb5-30	Eb5-31	Eb5-32	Eb5-33	Eb5-34	Eb5-35

Eb6-1	Eb6-2	Eb6-3	Eb6-4	Eb6-5	Eb6-6

Eb6-7	Eb6-8	Eb6-9	Eb6-10	Eb6-11	Eb6-12	Eb6-13

Eb6-14	Eb6-15	Eb6-16	Eb6-17	Eb6-18	Eb6-19

There are 5 feather marks on the inside of the 'bough' and 12 on the outside. The feathers on the outside presumably refer to the months.

The feathers on the inside (hidden from sun light) presumably stand for 5 extracalendrical days, after the regular 12 * 30 = 360 days in a solar calendar. At one time during the year we can be certain the gods will assemble, during those 5 nights when gods are born.

The observant reader will discover a 13th outside little feather at bottom left. At the 'root' there is a little remnant. Perhaps it is a recognition of the fact that 12 * 30 + 5 days is not enough - every 4th year an extra day must be added.

Here, too, the location of haú is at the final. In Eb6-15 another final sign (maro) is used at ordinal number 15. Maybe feather marks irrespective of glyph type means final?

Maybe odd ordinal numbers are incomplete? Perhaps we should read such glyphs together with the following even numbered glyph, e.g.:

		end is coming up
Eb6-11	Eb6-12	end is coming up
end is reached
end is reached	Eb6-15	Eb6-16

Ihe tau in Eb6-16 has ordinal number 16. Both glyph type and ordinal number signify that the end has been reached.

In Eb6-12 there are 12 outside feather marks (the little one at left bottom not counted). In Eb6-15 there are 12 feather marks hanging down. Hanging down presumably signifies 'wilting' (as in the hanging down heads in moe glyphs).

Also haú glyphs have their tips hanging down, heavy with 'fruit' or not, presaging 'wilting'.

As to Eb6-11 we should remember the combination ika and manu rere from several of the parallel texts:


Bb12-13	Bb12-14	Bb12-15		Bb12-16	Bb12-17	Bb12-18

Ga2-20	Ga2-21	Ga2-22		Ga2-23	Ga2-24	Ga2-25		Ga2-26

Ka3-8	Ka3-9	Ka3-10		Ka3-11	Ka3-12	Ka3-13		Ka3-14

Eb6-9	Eb6-10	Eb6-11		Eb6-12	Eb6-13			Eb6-14

Ra5-203	Ra5-204	Ra5-205	Ra5-206	Ra5-207	Ra5-208	Ra5-209
...
				Nb3-101	Nb3-102	Nb3-103		Nb3-104

Hb12-33	Hb12-34	Hb12-35	Hb12-36	Hb12-37	Hb12-38		Hb12-39
							...
Ma2-201	Ma2-202	Ma2-203		Ma2-204	Ma2-205

Suddenly it becomes evident that I have to mention all these parallel texts in the glyph dictionary, and also give some explanations.

For the moment, though, I rest content with not changing anything in the page about Eb6-12 above. On the other hand I feel I have to add a hyperlink to a series of pages about the Mamari moon calendar, including the important recent discoveries. They need to be documented and in the process also be clearly defined and tested. The glyph dictionary forces me to order and balance.