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TRANSLATIONS
I have no reason to doubt which modern Easter Island months correspond to our own months:
Neither have I any reason to doubt the geographical mapping of the kuhane stations on Easter Island. What is problematical is how to connect 28 lunar stations to a solar modern calendar for the year. I can accept the view that 24 of the kuhane stations is a separate group. Does it necessarily follow from this that each kuhane station must be half a month? Did we not prove each kuhane station to be a month? No, we did not, we set out to see if by chance there could be any correlation between the kuhane stations and the 8 glyphs defined by 59 counted from the beginning of the text:
The redmarked stations could be connected rather securely to glyphs 59 days apart (each glyph = a day). Furthermore, from Te Pei (Gb1-7) to Hanga Takaure (Ga1-1) there are 8 * 29.5 = 236 = 472 / 2 glyphs. Each one of these 8 kuhane stations corresponds to a lunar month, and side b covers 8 lunar months. To be more exact: side b does also cover Gb1-1--6, and on side a the first glyph is included as the last day of the last month among the 8. Hatinga Te Kohe as reconstructed by me is at Gb5-1, at day number 354 (counted from Ga1-1). The measure of the year (a sun cycle) is completed (with 'moon eyes') after 12 lunar months. The bamboo staff which is broken (to let out a beautiful woman - moon) is the staff of the sun, a staff is male. Hanga Te Pau arrives 11 days later. But even if the solar bamboo staff is broken at day number 354, it is not necessary for it to appear already at Ga1-1. Maybe it appears with Ga4-3 (at Haga Takaure as earlier defined):
354 - 84 (86 is counted from Gb8-30) = 270 = 75 % of 360. Hatinga Te Kohe cannot be located in spring according to a solar calendar for the year. But Tama should refer to the baby sun arriving over the sea in his canoe to the island, going ashore at Poike in order to wander towards the west. First is the old year 'broken' and then comes the new year. Geography says Tama illustrates early spring, exactly as expected for a new year. Yet another kind of year ends and begins in the darkest part of winter. Hatinga Te Kohe refers to the midwinter final of the old year (maybe 9 months) and Tama to the spring arrival of a new year. In between are 2 months (59 days). 354 + 59 = 413, i.e. Tama arrives 48 days into the new 365-day year. But already 59 days before Hatinga Te Kohe a midwinter baby year different from Tama is born, at Hua Reva.
A moon new year after 10 * 29.5 nights seems to define the beginning of Takaure (moon version). There are four lunar months between the two 'babies. Are the glyphs (days) following after Haga Te Pau continuing on into next year overlapping with the beginning of side a? 413 - 365 = 48 would locate Gb7-3 somewhere in 'February', a reasonable birth date:
We have gained the 4 'political' stations but lost Hua Reva, Akahanga, Hatinga Te Kohe, and Roto Iri Are. We cannot have two babies and we cannot break the bamboo staff in spring. The first 'half' of the year is sun-oriented (red), the second 'half' moon-oriented (blue). 16 red and 8 blue = 24. |
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