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TRANSLATIONS
In Ea6-18 we have a potentially important source for understanding the hakaua glyphs, because probably the glyph is part of a calendar for the week (planets):
The couple Ea6-34--35 is the 14th in a series of totally 20 periods ending in a similar way. We should notice how Venus this time is depicted as a verson of manu rere (GD11), which means that only Mars and Mercury now lack manu rere glyphs. Maybe we will find them later on, or maybe they have a watery character which does not harmonize with high-in-the-air (rere?) glyphs:
Though Mars is fiery and not in touch with the sea - he safely sails in his double canoe. I would be surprised if we did not later on find any manu rere referring to Mars. We should notice how Venus (Ea6-26) and Saturn (Ea6-28) not only have the wavy wings but also necks which are bent. This feature is not seen in any other manu rere in E. Searching for manu rere with bent necks in other texts I found these odd ones in Mamari:
Although I at first cannot see them as parts in a calendar for the week, they anyhow are intersting, because they are located in a structure which probably is a calendar of some sort. Moreover, it would be gratifying if we could define what kind of calendar, because it contains 6 vai glyphs, 5 of which have a single rim and 1 with a double rim. Therefore, if we know the conditions which are connected with the vai with a double rim we would have an indication of the difference in meaning between a single and a double rim:
I have not counted the top marks on the 'branches'. If we add them to the total 10+13+40 =63, we get 70 (a moon sign). There are 2 top marks in Ca10-15. Both 2 and 15 also indicate moon. Sun is suggested in Ca10-6, not only by way of number 6 but also because we recognize a 'growing nut' somewhat reminiscent of the one at the center of Aa1-14:
10 also suggests the sun. 6 vai glyphs do suggest sun, partly because of the number and partly because of my interpretation of vai as a symbol for the sun. But vai with a single rim - I have guessed - means the absent sun. If the double-rimmed vai in Ca10-15 represents the moon, then, logic tells me, it could be the full moon with light from the sun. 15 also suggests full moon. Moon is at her best during the night, and full moon seen at night implies absent sun. 'Branches' at left also suggest the female moon-lit night. Perhaps, after all, it is a week. The 7th missing part would then, presumably, be Saturn (the black planet). It is worth a closer investigation. We start by creating a 6-line table and insert the glyphs mentioned above. I add 3 more birds and also two more glyph types: mamari (GD44) and rima (GD35):
The very marked 'full-moon' sign in Ca10-24 may be a sign of the sail of the great navigator. The absence of a 'full-moon' sign in Ca12-2 could be a sign of darkness. The middle fingers in Ca11-17 and Ca12-3 do suggest a connection between what I have guessed represent Jupiter and Venus, a connection which may lead to the sign of thickness in Ca12-3. So far I have not had any great difficulty in explaining signs, although I have not commented all of them. At the end of the periods - with the exception of the 2nd - we have variants of mauga (GD28):
If Saturn is referred to in the 7th and last row of glyphs, then my earlier interpretation of mauga as a mountain behind which the light is hiding is confirmed. Saturn is the dark planet and its mauga must be the largest of the planets. Venus has a closed 'foot', while Mercury has ½ a closed 'foot', he has one foot in the 'sea' and the other on dry 'land', I think. To be closed means to be 'inside' (in the darkness), also to be 'female'. Venus has no little 'eye' at her mauga, while Mars has two. Whatever the 'eyes' at mauga may mean, their sum is 6 (and indicating the Sun). Possibly we should add the two holes in the mauga pu glyphs and thereby reach 8 (indicating the Moon). There are similar small 'eyes' as thumbs in the rima glyphs. Also here we count to 6 such. I imagine the meaning of rima is fire (i.e. light), which - if it is true - indicates a five-fold rhythm with light in the center:
We remember the structure of Sunday in H, with vai at the beginning and manu rere after the middle, a four-fold scheme, which has left out the central rima, possibly to reach 5 glyphs (including the initial one):
The moon (marama) in 2nd position in the C calendar therefore, possibly, is equivalent to the rau hei (GD64) in H. The sacred geography of Easter Island can also be mapped onto these structures. The 4 children of Hotu A Matua gives a short description:
The ruling king (manu rere) - here by the name of Tuu Maheke - has his location in the north at Anakena. He is no longer a youth, but fully in control of his powers. He represents the phase beyond initiation (noon). The youngest son of Hotu A Matua is not yet initiated and represents the phase from sun-up to noon (or - which is equivalent - from spring equinox to midsummer). Tuu Rano Kao was born earlier. Time runs counterclockwise, following the course of the sun from east to west along the north coast, from west to east along the south coast. From Anakena and Rano Kao sun must pass Hagaroa on the west coast, and there the great tribe (mata nui) of Miru is located. In what I guess is the structure of H we could then have:
Logically, noon (rima) cannot be present in a calendar for the planets (week), because during the night sun in absent. In the C calendar we instead may have:
In the center is not the fire (rima) but the creation in the water (vai). The highest point (Poike) is at right and the table begins with the king in the north (where sun reaches his highest point). But the C text has another order:
In the beginning fire is alighted on the water. A canoe is needed. We can follow the development from the little nut at bottom left, via the triangular sign inside the moon canoe, the flames then reaching high. The north position internalizes the fire and the fire becomes an egg (like an eye) and the new generation is now under development, still unborn though inside mauga pu. The 'head' of the manu king must be sacrificed in order to create a baby (tamaiti). |
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