TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

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The combination kiore - henua (with growing maro added) at the beginning of summer (according to the calendar for the year in Small Santiago) is not the first of its kind - there are 6 periods before summer arrives:

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7	Ga4-1	Ga4-2	Ga4-3	Ga4-4
winter			summer

Summer does not begin immediately when light is returning, on the other hand it stretches beyond the point of reversal (from which sun will begin to decline). The duration of summer is 5 * 30 + 4 * 31 = 274 days (as has been proven in the Excursion at hanga rave):

summer		148		123
	Ga4-3		Gb1-6		Gb5-6
	1		150		274

5 'fingers' before midsummer, then only 4 are left (I imagine when reflecting about 5 + 4 = 9 months for summer). The thumb is gone, because he is the firemaker:

Maybe each feather in Gb1-6 represents half a month, but they are symmetrically located around the midpoint of the glyph, not as 10 + 8.

Ga4-2 is glyph number 84 beyond Ga1-1. Counting from the beginning of 'growing light' we get:

1	8	8
2	4	12
3	7	19
4	3	22
5	2	24
6	3	27
7	2	29

29 indeed is the number which indicates moon light has vanished. The corresponding sun number, 19, is the sum of the glyphs for the first 3 of the 'growing light' periods, and exactly those 3 periods have several paralells in the other texts. They constitute a special group.

85 (counted from Ga1-1) minus 10 equals 75 = 3 * 25 = 5 * 15 and may be the point where the old sun vanishes:

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	Ga3-10	Ga3-11	Ga3-12	Ga3-13	Ga3-14	Ga3-15	Ga3-16
	13	14	15	16	17	18	19

The glyphs seem to agree: Ga3-10 (note the numbers) exhibits a standing figure (tagata) with a head like ragi but without any moon crescent - the black night (or vero) is fully grown. Hau tea with double 'eyes' presumably indicates a point of reversal. Etc.

85 - 29 = 56 = 2 * 28, the glyphs before 'growing light', possibly tell about the light nights of the moon, when nourishing her sun child. Next page:

There are 31 periods (in G) ending with kiore - henua - maro, 6 of them before summer and 25 in summer. Beyond the last one of these 31 periods there remain 50 glyphs to the end of side a:

	92		49
Ga4-3		Ga7-10		Ga8-26
1		94		144

Then follow 6 glyphs more to reach the end of the season with 5 months à 30 days:

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Ga8-26	Gb1-1		Gb1-6
144	145		150

Assuming a symmetric relationship between the end of what seems to the season of growing light and the beginning of a season of declining light, we can calculate declining light to start some further 50 + 6 = 56 glyphs ahead.

94 days with growing light, would be followed by 112 days of 'high summer', and then by 274 (the total length of summer) - 94 - 112 = 68 days of receding light.

My suggestion of number of days in the kuhane map was 84 + 96 + 96 + 84 = 360, with 360 - 84 = 276 days for 'summer'. If the 'thumb' is missing after midsummer and if the 9 months are assymmetrically distributed (5 + 4), then my interpretation of the kuhane days may be wrong.

There should be 94 (and not 96) days of growing light, 112 days of high summer and 68 days only of receding light. 94 + 112 + 68 = 274. We can reach 276 by starting the counting from Ga4-1, in which case 96 days for growing light would agree.

112 + 68 = 180 should then be contrasted with 96 + 84 = 180. 16 days (ca one kuhane station) needs to be shifted from the 4th quarter to the 3rd. The 4th quarter is part of 'summer', if new year begins at autumn equinox:

1st quarter		2nd quarter		3rd quarter		4th quarter
He Anakena (July)		Tagaroa uri (October)		Tua haro (January)		Vaitu nui (April)
*Te Pei*	*Te Pou*	*Tama*	*One Tea*	*Mahatua*	*Taharoa*	Nga Kope Ririva	Te Pu Mahore
Hora iti (August)		Ko Ruti (November)		Tehetu'upú (February)		Vaitu potu (May)
*Hua Reva*	*Akahanga*	*Hanga Takaure*	*Poike*	*Hanga Hoonu*	*Rangi Meamea*	Te Poko Uri	Te Manavai
Hora nui (September)		Ko Koró (December)		Tarahao (March)		He Maro (June)
*Hatinga Te Kohe*	*Roto Iri Are*	*Pua Katiki*	*Maunga Teatea*	*Peke Tau O Hiti*	*Mauga Hau Epa*	*Te Kioe Uri*	*Te Piringa Aniva*
84 (?)		96 (?)		96 (?)		84 (?)
G summer		94		112		68

The water season (Vaitu) now arrives at its right place, beyond midsummer:


9 Ch'en	10 Yax	11 Sac	12 Ceh

There must be something wrong with how Barthel has correlated our own calendar with that of Easter Island. Or the creators of Manuscript E have reorganized the old system to correspond to a modern calendar.

One way to shift a kuhane station away from the 4th quarter is to take away Te Piringa Aniva. It would place Hanga Te Pau at the extreme end of the 4th quater, and it would add Roto Iri Are to the beginning of the summer. Hatinga Te Kohe would be the last station of the 1st quarter and Pua Katiki the last station of the 2nd quarter. This arrangement fits better, I think:

-	*Te Piringa Aniva*	-	*Roto Iri Are*	-	*Maunga Teatea*	Nga Kope Ririva	Te Pu Mahore
*Te Pei*	*Te Pou*	*Tama*	*One Tea*	*Mahatua*	*Taharoa*	Te Poko Uri	Te Manavai
*Hua Reva*	*Akahanga*	*Hanga Takaure*	*Poike*	*Hanga Hoonu*	*Rangi Meamea*	*Te Kioe Uri*	-
*Hatinga Te Kohe*	-	*Pua Katiki*		*Peke Tau O Hiti*	*Mauga Hau Epa*	-
*84 = 6 14**		*96 = 6 16**		*112 = 7 16**		*68 = 4 17**
180				180

I have here started counting summer at Ga4-1 and thereby adjusted the number of glyphs from 274 to 276 (= 12 * 23).

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7	Ga4-1	Ga4-2	Ga4-3	Ga4-4
summer

But that disturbs the counting of months, because 5 * 30 will now not be enough. There must be 3 * 30 + 2 * 31 = 90 + 62 = 152 days at Gb1-6. 152 = 8 * 19, indicating the season of strong spring sun is ending.