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TRANSLATIONS
In Australia they celebrate Christmas in December, why should there be a problem with new year in summer on Easter Island? And we remember Pipiri being December instead of June on the neighbour island Mangareva: ... The Mangaians called the third month of the winter season Pipiri. In Mangareva Pipiri was June, while in Easter Island it stood for December ... Aa6-69--70 could represent Te Pei respectively Te Pou, and Aa6-73 looks like a new rising moon fish (6 glyphs beyond the perished Aa6-67):
Te Pei could refer to the 'black fish' (the first half year) being 'swallowed' in Aa6-67.
18 * 23, derived from 6-69, suggests a full cycle at 18 * 24 = 432, which means Aa6-72. The following glyph, Aa6-73, should be the first glyph in next cycle. 2 * 432 = 864 is a nice number, with 6 (sun) in the center, 8 (moon) at left, and 4 (earth) at right. 8 + 6 + 4 = 18. 1334 - 864 = 470, and if we count Ab1-1--2 twice we reach 472 = 16 * 29.5. The text in A could be 1336 (= 8 * 167) glyphs long. 1336 is also equal to 16 * 83.5 (84 - 0.5), as if to play with 16 * 29.5 (30 - 0.5). 83.5 - 29.5 = 54 = 3 * 18 - three wives for the sun. Presumably, though, 8 * 168 = 1344 is the length of the text, 167 being an odd number. Disregarding the numerical juggling, the glyphs (Aa6-69--70) definitely suggest Te Pei + Te Pou. In Aa6-68 the vertical line is drawn to the right of the center, rather like in Nga Kope Ririva (which, we must remember, lies 6 kuhane stations earlier than Te Pei but only one lunar double month prior to Te Pei in the text of G):
Following the pattern for Te Pei and Te Pou above we should count 6 * 68 = 408 = 17 * 24. If at 16 * 24 = 384 a cycle is finished, then a new one must have begun at 17 * 24 = 408. Considering how we can identify Nga Kope Ririva, Te Pei, and Te Pou, the pattern suggests we should find a kuhane station also at Aa6-71 - ua and fishes together indicate 4 central glyphs:
Extrapolating from the ordinal numbers of the identified kuhane stations (1, 7, 8) Aa6-71 ought to be 14. One Tea. A few of the tao glyphs in Tahua may be connected with hua, but only Aa6-71 is inverted:
With hua at the top rather than at the bottom, without 'feathers' and with a single head - instead of the characteristic double head looking at each other - not much is similar:
One of the heads remains, while the other one seems to have been transferred to ua:
500 + 29.5 = 529.5 could explain 529 - 530. If instead of tao we think vaka - which the glyph type resembles, I think, - the inversal with hua at the top suggests a 'downfall', and at One Tea indeed Vakai 'falls on her face'. With One Tea being a place of birth and death, 10 * 53 = 530 for Aa6-72 may indicate how sun (6) has come to the end of a double cycle (72 = 2 * 36). But 53 is a dark number, and the conclusion could be the reverse: Beyond Aa6-72 a new light with arrive - maybe the light from the moon (or from the illuminating force of the earthly king - ultimately also from the sun). Sun has no monopoly on 36, we should remember. Twice 36 is the number of glyphs in the Mamari moon calendar. The double ua glyphs suggest the 'fish' has waning moon characteristics. The correlation between ua and midsummer probably is due to the change from spring sun to the rainy season (an symbol, maybe, for 'waning'). But then also Aa6-67 should be member of the group (there should be 5 glyphs corresponding to the dark nights between 360 and 365):
The lost head ought to refer to the same idea as in Ga1-29:
Although Aa6-68 seems to mark the 1st kuhane station, Te Piringa Aniva comes as the first kuhane station counted from the beginning of side a on G. And Rei in Ga1-30 should mean a new season will begin immediately beyond, similar to how immediately beyond Nga Kope Ririva the kuhane stepped ashore on the island.
These are cardinal points, obviously so Nga Kope Ririva and One Tea, the southwest mark defining Easter Island and the southeast beach beyond which Hanga Takaure defines where moon cannot go. In between Te Pei and Te Pou together indicate where the reversal occurs, where 'black' spring sun is falling down followed by Sirius appearing in the sky. Te Piringa Aniva is special. It is not at the beginning or at the end (as Nga Kope Ririva and One Tea) and it is not in the middle (as Te Pei and Te Pou):
Although sun is present all through the first 8 stations (as defined by the definite article), he seems to be present only in his 'spiritual' shape during Te Pei and Te Pou, when all becomes black and then he is seen in the night sky as the brightest star. There are 8 stations from Te Piringa Aniva to One Tea, maybe to indicate the season of the 'moon' - presumably symbolizing 'waning sun'. If the cycle along the south coast represents waxing moon, then sun should be 'waning. One Tea is where Vakai dies. Te Piringa Aniva is located, in the structure, at the same place, so to say, because it is the end point of 6 (while One Tea is the end point of 8). At Te Piringa Aniva the whole island gathers in order to create a new fire, because the old one has 'died'. Clearly side a of G should start here. |
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