TRANSLATIONS
There are fishes around viri:
In Aa8-24 it looks as if somebody is diving head down and in Aa8-25 we see honu, a sign of solstice. In Aa8-27 we possibly have a fish at bottom and a sky roof (without visible moon) at the top. A time of darkness it is, the time of fishes. Maybe the old year is the oval fish in Aa8-24 and in Aa8-25 the new (yet only little) year is hanging in his navel string from the thumb of the solar turtle. There are 4 viri in Tahua:
Given that side b continues after side a, and side a after side b, in a cyclical pattern like the behaviour of the celestial bodies and mother nature, then we should investigate the end of side a to look for the fishes connected with Ab1-1:
Fishes we found:
The sickle of the moon has arrived in Aa8-78 and the bird with long neck in Aa8-66 (which also Aa8-25 exhibits) is looking ahead - as if solstice had passed away already. The string down to the fish is no longer hanging straight down, it is as if the speed ahead blows the fish to the left. In Aa8-78 the left 'foot' is longer and the glyph is leaning ahead in a manner similar to the navel string to the fish. The other two viri we have looked at earlier:
Instead of fishes hanging down we see a kind of 'ball' with a hole in Aa5-6, and in Ab7-25 we see two such 'balls' connected by way of thumb, arm and body down to the abdomen. Presumably we see that same 'ball' in the abdomen in Aa8-25:
Whatever the exact meanings may be, it is evident that there are patterns here. The connection between honu and viri is seen also in these four glyphs:
The 'arms' of the honu are formed by viri. |