TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The summary page for henua:

The idea of the simple henua glyph type illustrating a wooden staff has been in a way confirmed by the 10 such glyphs on side a of G. Presumably they there indicate the successively higher positions of spring sun.

Another function of simple henua glyphs (as understood from the text of G) was to define positions in the counting of days. The 'staffs' were used for marking measures of time.

As to the kiore - henua combination: It would be strange if henua here meant anything else than a wooden pole, especially if imagined to be literally henua (earth) - in which case the glyph type must be imagined turned 90º around to the right:

Instead, the staff must remain vertical. The ancient Egyptian image of the night sky goddes (Nu-t) with fingertops and toes on the ground cannot be applied to the day time sky:

If the concept is to be used for visualizing the strong male spring sky, the Egyptian picture needs to be turned around. And the head of the god (not goddess) must be held high instead of bowed down as if in submission.

Excursion:

A quest for the location of Haga Hônu in the text of Small Santiago (G).

In kiore - henua the person is climbing a tree. If he had been on the ground his knees surely would have been bent maximally to minimize the forces on his back at the effort to weed (or whatever he is doing). The body is held like when climbing a coconut tree - with arms bent in order not to get too much stress on them.

Why are there both a sequence of tree-climbers and a (shorter) sequence of simple henua glyphs during spring?

68 is measured out by the 10 'staffs', and I have suggested they measure out the first 68 days from spring equinox (or at least from Haga Takaúre, the end of winter = the beginning of summer). If the tree-climber illustrates how sun is rising by climbing a kind of (imaginary) cosmic tree, then the climbing will start earlier than from Haga Takaúre.

In principle there should be 180 days of rising sun, not 94. But either we add 29 or 22 to prolong the rising sun season we do not come anywhere close to half a year:

	6		19				66		25
Ga2-27		Ga3-5		Ga4-1	Ga4-2	Ga4-3		Ga6-13		Ga7-10
7		22				68			26
29 ↑						94 ↑

Counting 22 + 26 = 48 seems to be numerially sound, in which case the 'periods' maybe not at all are periods. Furthermore, 22 + 94 = 116 = 4 * 29, a strong sign.

If we let go of the 'periods' the problem of why Ga4-1--2 are in the same 'period' as Ga4-3 will disappear. Ga3-5 and Ga7-10 will then (like Ga4-3 and Ga6-13) be limit markers for a group of similar glyphs:

	29
Ga3-5	29	Ga7-10
	8
Ga4-3	8	Ga6-13

6 kiore - henua glyphs appear before Ga4-3, and 9 after Ga6-13. Inside there are 31 - 6 - 9 = 16 such glyphs.

Now we can understand why there are double 'rising sun' signs: the 'staffs' are sun-oriented and the kiore-henua are moon-oriented.

There was some meaning in Metoro's henua after all (moon and earth being close relatives). Is it a she who is climbing? Could it be a picture of mother earth sitting down with the 'staff' in front, and together new growth is generated? I must add, in the summary, the following:

Still, there are two alternatives: Either the person is to be seen as climbing up the 'staff' or as sitting down on the ground holding it. The last mentioned alternative is probably what is intended: henua - kiore is a combination of the kai and henua glyph types. Metoro might have meant the person sitting down holding the 'staff' is mother earth, in which case the 'staff' would represent the sun, nicknamed kiore.

And, I could have continued, kai means eating, but it can also used as an allusion to 'intercourse'. Mother Earth, in other words, is receiving the sun rays and thereby becoming pregnant, as is visibly proven by the lush growth only at this time of the year.

The idea of a 'square earth' suggests we should interpret 68 as 4 * 17:

	19				66		25
Ga3-5		Ga4-1	Ga4-2	Ga4-3		Ga6-13		Ga7-10
22				*68 = 4 17**			26
*116 = 4 29 ↑**

We then will realize that 22 + 26 must be 4 * 12.

This exercise indicates that Haga Takaúre (Ga4-2) is not the beginning of 'summer', in a moon perspective there is a growth 'quarter' (116 = 4 * 29) beginning already with Ga3-5. Also sun, however, seems to 'feel' this because 22 + 68 = 90.

But we should count with 4 * 29.5 = 118 (because 471 + 1 = 16 * 29.5), I think:

			19				66		25
Ga3-3	Ga3-4	Ga3-5		Ga4-1	Ga4-2	Ga4-3		Ga6-13		Ga7-10
24						*68 = 4 17**			26
*118 = 4 29.5 ↑**

Ga3-3 confirms it - the great moa cries out triumphantly, a new season has been generated.