TRANSLATIONS
Next page is the first one in the 'Excursion':
To fall down is acceptable if the idea originates from a concept of gods experiencing time on another scale than we. For us it is a long time from high summer to autumn (fall), and for some small creatures a day is equal to life time. The creator of Tahua may have played with his glyph Aa6-14, because the top 'grasping hand' resembles an upside down version of the top of Gb1-6. An inversion happens from one day to another. Furthermore, the bottom (hua) part becomes the fat torso of rau hei once you have seen it. And both resemble tamaiti in that respect:
The 'feathered' sun person is falling down as in rau hei glyphs, and this downward moving 'fish' will generate next generation hua (or tamaiti). The 'fruit' is the regenerated 'parent', whose 'head' obviously is shown at bottom in tamaiti:
The last sentence indicates that more than one cycle may coincide at some glyphs. 84 and 472 are not commensurate. I have earlier thought of 84 as 3 * 28 and 28 as another measure for the month. Here a more reasonable measure is the fortnight. Maybe 28 does not exist (in rongorongo) as a length for the month. 2 * 84 = 168 will then be thought of as 12 * 14. And we then will understand why the 13th zodiacal sign has disappeared - because there is room for only 12 and 14. 364 = 13 * 28, but when counting you should have only 12 double fortnights. The 13th is te pito - in the dark, cannot be counted. I guess the 5th station of the Rain God, when he is down in the earth, should be thought of as the 13th:
Having thus defined te pito for the Rain God it is easy to see how there are 3 groups with 4 stations in each:
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