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TRANSLATIONS
The first page of vae kore in the glyph dictionary:
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A few preliminary
remarks and imaginations:
1.
The shape of this little bird suggests the form of an
egg; the egg presumably, from which he just has hatched. The idea
seems to be
beginning.
"Manu-tera, the
Easter Island name for the sooty tern, means literally 'sunbird'.
From this we take it as a very likely, though there is no proof,
that the tern would have been seen as a symbol of the sun - just as
the falcon and the phoenix were symbols of the sun in acient Egypt.
The latter, the mythical Bennu bird, was associated with Heliopolis
('the City of the Sun') and with the pyramid-shaped Benben sunstone,
and was famously linked to an egg:
As its end approached
the phoenix fashioned a nest of aromatic boughs and spices, set it
on fire, and was consumed in the flames. From the pyre miraculously
sprang a new phoenix, which, after embalming its father's ashes in
an egg of myrrh, flew with the ashes to Heliopolis where it
deposited them on the altar in the temple of the sun god Ra.
The possibility cannot
be ruled out that the birdman cult of Easter Island may have
expressed ideas such as these. 'If one were to propose antecedents
to the practice', comments the historian R. A. Jairazbhoy:
the thought of the Egg
of the Egyptian sun god (the cosmic egg) would have to come to mind.
The Book of the Dead says that this egg was laid by Kenkenur,
or 'the Great Cackler' (an alias of the phoenix), and the deceased
watches and guards it. This is declared in the Chapter headed 'Having Dominion over the Water in the Underworld'. And again the
journey on the reed float across the sea is reminiscent of the
journey of the Egyptian sun god Ra to the horizon on reed floats."
(Hancock 3)
"This
hieroglyph was used as a determinative for the word sesch,
'bird's nest', and in ideographs like tau, 'young bird,
nestling' ... The sign shows a few, usually three, ducklings or possibly
green geese ... in a nest formed like the crescent
of the moon. Sometimes there are eggs instead of young birds in
the nest ... " (Wilkinson)
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The three little birds ride in the canoe nest of the moon and the similarity
with the missing hau tea in A is striking:
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672 = 4 * 168 = 24 *
28 |
The 'excentric' theoretical midline is enclosed, in the dark,
as if the 'fire' was hidden. The ordinal numbers agree: the end of 24 royal
moonlit nights has been reached.
The midline is offset to the right, which possibly implies
focus now is on the left side (i.e. side b).
168 is here 'explained' as one of the sides of 'quadrangular
earth', and 168 = 6 * 28, six months for each side. Translated into a
360-day year it means 90 = 6 * 15. The relation between 360 and 672 is equal
to 90 / 168.
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2.
Contrary to Metoro's vae kore I would like to put
focus on the opposite - the little bird has what could be a
knee joint:
Only, it is oriented backwards, as if it was an elbow.
By comparing with rima we can see how the head of the
vae kore bird might be imagined as a fist (inside which the 3
fingers are hidden) with a thumb.
If vae kore is connected with a beginning, then the closed
fist implies no finger has been counted yet. We should reorder the three
glyph types into:
In rima 'daylight' is over, in vae
also the 'day' (which ends at 'midnight') is over.
Suddenly we realize Metoro could
have chosen vae kore to express the fundamental fact - the
little bird has no leg but an arm where the leg should be!
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Synchronism works:
"Whether, as the one legend has it, Laa returned with
Kila [the 3rd son of Moikeha] to the Hawaiian group, saw his
foster-father, Moikeha, visited the other islands, and finally
returned to Kahiki; or, as the other legend has it, Laa
remained in Kahiki until after the death of Olopana, and then
proceeded to Hawaii with his own canoes, accompanied by his priest, his
astrologer, his master of ceremonies, his drummer, his prophet, and forty
other attendants, the fact is none the less certain that Laa came to
the Hawaiian group and stayed there for some time, principally on Oahu at
Kualoa.
Here he married three wives - Hoakanuikapuaihelu,
daughter of Lonokaehu from Kualoa, Waolena from
Kaalaea, and Mano from Kaneohe.
All the ancient traditions retain the fact of this triple
marriage, and that each one of those three ladies was delivered of a son on
one and the same day, and from each of these three sons it was the glory and
pride of the aristocracy on Oahu and Kauai to trace their descent.
These sons of Laa-mai-Kahiki were respectively called
Lauli-a-Laa, Ahukini-a-Laa, and Kukona-a-Laa."
(Fornander)
What apparently runs as a historical story becomes in its middle a myth.
Important persons attract myths.
The 3 wives of the sun all deliver sun boys the same day. Was there a
historical person named Laa or was he invented? Transforming Hawaiian
Laa it becomes Raa:
| Raá
Sun; day; i te raá nei, today; raá îka,
good day for fishing. Vanaga.
1. Sun. 2. Day. 3. Time. 4. Name of sub-tribe.
Fischer.
Te manu i te raá
= comet. Barthel.
'... The substitution of the sun for the sail, both
of which are called ra or raa in Polynesia, is a
remarkable feature in Easter Island art... ' Heyerdahl 3.
1. The sun; raa ea
mai, raa puneki,
sunrise; raa tini,
raa toa, noon. P Mgv.,
Ta.: ra, the sun. Mq.:
a, id. 2. Day, date;
a raa nei a, to-day, now;
raa i mua, day before. P
Mgv., Ta.: ra, a day.
Mq.: a, id. Churchill. |
The names of the 3 sons can be translated as follows:
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Lauli-a-Laa |
uri |
dark |
a.m. |
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Ahukini-a-Laa |
tini |
center |
noon |
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Kukona-a-Laa |
toga |
northwest |
p.m. |
The 3 ducklings in the moon canoe should be oriented towards right:
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3.
Counting the Polynesian way by raising the fingers one by one from
a closed fist, is a fact which combined with the fact of drawing
(in rongorongo) only 3 fingers (+ thumb) should lead us to an
important conclusion:
Vae kore is a glyph
for 'daytime' use,
because 3 indicates the time when sun is present, 4 the time when he
is absent, as described in the diurnal cycle on Hawaii:
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Night |
Kihi
(sunset) |
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Pili |
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Kau (midnight) |
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Pilipuka |
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Kihipuka
(sunrise) |
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Day |
Kakahi-aka |
morning |
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Awakea |
noon |
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Auina-la |
afternoon |
A rongorongo fist sign in the 'night' does not show any
thumb:
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There are 2 'feathers' at left from the fist in Kb4-19, which possibly means
the 3rd 'boy' is the one who generates new life (which will spread out,
atea). The reversed henua ora (with a real poporo in its
middle) says so. 4 * 19 = 76 means the 'quadrangular earth' now must
recycle. 19 is 91 reversed.
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