TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

By using different points of departure (pito at Ab8-43 respectively vae kore at Aa1-1) the text manages to let Aa5-1 mark 12 * 28 = 336 while the earlier vae kore at Aa4-71 will be 364:


Ab8-43 (1)		Aa1-1 (1)		Aa4-71 (364)		Aa5-1	Aa5-2	Aa5-3 (336)

Blue is here for glyphs seemingly related to the moon, while red glyphs appear to be related to the sun. 364 = 13 * 28 is measured from a point on side b (the moon side).

In G there is no pito glyph, and both 364 and 336 can be counted from Gb8-30:

	332				27
Gb8-30 (1)	332	Gb4-13	Gb4-14	Gb4-15 (336)	27	Gb5-10 (364)

However, it is possible that one or more other points of departure exist in both A and G. It is also quite possible that 364 can be measured from Aa1-1 and 336 from Ab8-43:


Ab8-43 (1)		Aa1-1 (1)		Aa4-43 (336)		Aa5-31 (364)

The poor reader will be filled with despair or disgust, I suppose. Nothing seems to be firm and everything possible. But it is a sign of being on the right track - the Polynesians loved wordplay and they certainly would have tried to make the glyphs play too.

To give some stability it is necessary to list all 'pure' vae kore glyphs in Tahua:


Aa1-1	Aa1-79

Aa4-31	Aa4-33	Aa4-71	Aa5-1

Aa6-5	Aa6-6	Aa6-31	Aa6-48

Ab1-73	Ab3-59	Ab3-68	Ab6-8

They are 14 (if we include the very special Aa6-31), and 8 of them (redmarked) are normally oriented.

Those on side b have more pronounced 'legs' than those on side a. There are no reversed glyphs on side b.

To improve our understanding it is necessary to try to connect at least the redmarked glyphs by numbers in the way we have succeeded with viri.

Aa4-31 and Aa4-33 are twins, and so are Ab3-59 and Ab3-68. Then remains only Ab1-73 and Ab6-8 which are both similar (in body form) and opposite (in neck length). They ought to be numerically related, hopefully by a distance between them which could be expressed in multiples of 28.

On the other hand there is little hope: 670 (number of glyphs on side a) + 2 = 672 = 24 * 28. But Ab1-73 and Ab6-8 are on side b.

a1	90	b1	82
a2	85	b2	85
a3	76	b3	77
a4	82	b4	80
a5	83	b5	80
a6	84	b6	92
a7	85	b7	84
a8	85	b8	84
sum	670	sum	664

82 - 73 = 9. 9 + 85 + 77 + 80 + 80 + 7 = 338 = 2 * 13 * 13 = 13 * 26 (and 3 + 3 + 8 = 14 = 6 + 8). Counting the long way gives 1334 - 338 = 996 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 83 = 12 * 83 (and 9 + 9 + 6 = 24 = 6 + 18).

	*338 = 13 26**
Ab1-73		Ab6-8
743		1082

Another way to approach the kind of structure found in viri is to start from the discovered similarity:

1000		321		10
	Aa1-1		Aa4-71		Aa5-1
	334

1000		272		59
	Aa5-7		Aa8-26		Ab1-1
	334

The 'high light' viri (Ab7-26) is missing:

	100		361			17		270
Ab7-26		Ab8-43		Aa4-70	Aa4-71		Aa5-7		Aa8-26
*464 = 16 29**					*290 = 10 29**

By inserting Ab7-26 the beautiful 1000 will be changed:

518		481		272		59
	Ab7-26		Aa5-7		Aa8-26		Ab1-1
	482		334

518 = 14 * 37 and 481 = 13 * 37. What does it mean? 518 + 481 = 999 = 27 * 37. Is there any deeper meaning in this obvious number play?

8 moves from the end position (in 518) to a position in the middle (in 481). The idea seems to have been to count to 520 from Ab1-1 and establish the measure 10 * 52.

What glyph corresponds to Ab7-26 on side a? An easy solution to the riddle would be to try and count to glyph number 520 from Aa5-1:

83 + 84 + 85 + 85 = 337. We must continue on side b: 520 - 337 = 183 (half a year?). 183 - 82 - 85 = 16.


Ab3-13	Ab3-14	Ab3-15	Ab3-16 (520)	Ab3-17	Ab3-18	Ab3-19

Unquestionably Ab3-16 is in the center between two special glyphs. Ab3-15 should be compared with Aa5-31, and Ab3-17 be compared with the twins at 336 (= 12 * 28):


Ab3-15	Aa5-31 (364)	Ab3-17	Aa5-2	Aa5-3 (336)

315 (as in Ab3-15) is equal to 100π + 1 and 364 is equal to 100π + 50. And 334 = 100π + 20:

518		481		272		59
	Ab7-26		Aa5-7		Aa8-26		Ab1-1
	482		334

518		481		321		10
	Ab3-16		Aa1-1		Aa4-71		Aa5-1
	482		334

If 334 was 336 = 12 * 28 it would have been nice. There are two glyphs missing. Likewise there are two glyphs missing on side a to reach 24 * 28 = 672.

In Ab3-16 there is a little straight vertical line, presuambly to indicate a line for measurment. 316 (as in Ab3-16) is 2 too much. What is located 2 glyphs to the right of Aa5-1 respectively 2 glyphs to the right of Ab1-1?


Aa4-79	Aa4-80	Aa4-81	Aa4-82	Aa5-1	Aa5-2	Aa5-3


Ab1-1	Ab1-2	Ab1-3	Ab1-4	Ab1-5	Ab1-6	Ab1-7	Ab1-8

The result on side b does not seem convincing. But we should remember how Ab1-1--2 presumably are to be regarded as a pair. Possibly they are to be counted as the end of the text on side a. Just as Hanga Takaure was found as the first glyph on side a of G. If we count them as belonging to side a, the text on side a will be 672 = 12 * 28 glyphs long. And side b will have a text which is 664 - 2 = 662 glyphs long. Could Ab3-16 have been located where it is instead of as Ab3-14 to make us understand?

If the same pattern rules on the other side of the tablet, we should wonder why 726 (in Ab7-26) is not 724 (i.e. Ab7-24). 7 * 24 = 168.

And the answer would once again be that Ab1-1--2 should not be counted.

What is the common trait in 168 and 100π? - They both measure half a cycle. 168 = 6 * 28 and to use π for measuring the circumference of a circle it is necessary to double the number.

If they knew about π, they would certainly not have missed the 5 first digits: 3.1413, because it would correlate to the 3 wives of the sun and the fact of 14 being followed by 13 must have been a design by the creator.

14 * 13 = half a year (182), and 14 + 13 = 27 - which we should remember - was a mysterious term above:

... 518 = 14 * 37 and 481 = 13 * 37. What does it mean? 518 + 481 = 999 = 27 * 37. Is there any deeper meaning in this obvious number play?

But what formula did they use to calculated π as 3.1413? Our value is 3.1416.