TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

If we try with Te Pei = Gb1-7 and look beyond to see what stations will come where, this is the result:

*7. Te Pei*		*13. Tama*
	Gb1-7 (236)		Gb7-3 (413)
*9. Hua Reva*		*15. Hanga Takaure*
	Gb3-5 (295)		Ga1-1 (472)
*11. Hatinga Te Kohe*
	Gb5-1 (354)

The result does not negate our approach, because we know too little about the meanings of the kuhane stations and too little about the meanings of the glyphs to be certain of anything. But in retrospect - after I have worked with both sides of the problem - I feel certain that all 5 glyphs fit with their respective kuhane station.

Some of all arguments possible to use for 'proving' the proposition of a good fit between kuhane station and glyph can be read following this hyperlink. Here it will be enough to point at Tama coinciding with the tamaiti ('little' tama, child) glyph in Gb7-3, a fact easy to perceive immediately:


Gb7-3 (413)	tamaiti

The 11th station Hatinga Te Kohe is nearly as easy to accept as a fit as Tama, because we have earlier identified a 'break' (hatiga) between Gb4-33 and Gb5-1:


Gb4-33	Gb5-1	Gb5-2	Gb5-3	Gb5-4	Gb5-5	Gb5-6
354	355	356	357	358	359	360

Gb5-7	Gb5-8	Gb5-9	Gb5-10	Gb5-11	Gb5-12
361	362	363	364	365	366

Above the counting has begun with Gb8-30 instead of Ga1-1, which explains why Gb5-1 has ordinal number 12 * 29.5 + 1 = 355.

Counting 12 * 30 = 360 (Gb5-6) or 13 * 28 = 364 (Gb5-10) we must start with Gb8-30, at which glyph in a way sun is 'born'. With the 'coinage' of the moon - 29.5 - we must start at Ga1-1.

The 9th station is Hua Reva with ordinal number 295 = 10 * 29.5 and the numbers all indicate an end station.

*9. Hua Reva*
	Gb3-5 (295)

The picture in Gb3-5 is a composition with takaure in the center of an oval form which we recognize as vai (water).

"Among Hotu Matua's last accomplishments were his attempts to dig wells (anga i te vai, TP:53) along the shore of Akahanga. My informants did not mention these endeavors, but since Easter Island has neither stream nor wells, the supply of fresh water, aside from the three crater lakes, presents a real problem (HM:281-292).

Recent trial excavations in the area of Akahanga have shown that this area was ideal for the establishment of wells. The dying king has his foster child bring him his last drink of water (vai maunga mo unu) from neighboring Hua Reva, a sure indication of the success of his last efforts to better the lot of the settlers (TP:55). After leaving the residence at Akahanga, Hotu Matua goes to the northern rim of the volcano Rano Kau." (Barthel 2)

At the rim of Rano Kau king Hotu falls on his face and dies. The king is a kind of reincarnation on earth of the sun, and appropriately taking a drink of water illustrates how his 'fire' (life force) is quenched. In Gb3-5 we should 'read' the king immersed in water, i.e. he has become a takaure, a spirit. He has returned to Hiva.

The last kuhane station in the text of G is Hanga Takaure:

*15. Hanga Takaure*
	Ga1-1 (472)

Hanga Takaure is a bay located on the south coast of the island, and in the north is the high Poike. The kuhane is a dream soul, a woman following the path of the moon, which is rising in the west and descending in the east (having moved in a direction opposite to that of the sun).

The first kuhane station is Nga Kope Ririva at the southwestern corner of the island, and the order of the stations is determined from that pont. The 16th station is Poike, and to get there the direction must change at Hanga Takaure. From a steady movement in northeasterly direction along the southern coastline the movement now must change into a climbing one, a movement characterizing the rising sun.

Side a of the G tablet is associated with the sun and side b with the moon. Ga1-1 is therefore positioned exactly right for it to represent Hanga Takaure.

I have tried to evade arguments from what the names of the kuhane stations may mean, and think I have succeeded remarkably well without such arguments. The labels for the glyph types, founded on what Metoro said, are not so arbitrary as my own associations and suggestions based on wordplay.