TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

There is a problem. Not far beyond these glyphs, which I have associated with the end of the text in G and beyond into unknown territory - a dark season in midwinter - glyphs arrive which I earlier (at ua) have determined to be at summer solstice:

In Aa6-66 there is a most remarkable special ua sign:


Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69	Aa6-70

Aa6-71	Aa6-72	Aa6-73	Aa6-74	Aa6-75	Aa6-76

It comes immediately before Aa6-67 which - we should remember (cfr vaha mea) - probably marks summer solstice:

'In Aa6-67 the (sun) fish is designed as if being swallowed by a hoea glyph. At summer solstice the opposite of mea occurs - the dark season will begin.'

The strange creature in Aa6-66 vomits, and the ua sign must here be connected with a fluid, possibly water in the form of rain (ûa).

Aa6-65 and Aa6-66 may be a pair - the 'moon signs' at the bottom of vai in Aa6-65 are similar to the signs at bottom right in the 'strange creature'. Possibly the 'rain' (ûa) could be Vaiora a Tane, the flow of healthy life-giving sun light. The ua sign in Aa6-66 is reversed compared to the normal orientation.

Metoro seems to have interpreted the strange glyph as depicting the Milky Way (goe): 'e he goe kua moe'.

Let us repeat and dig some more. Apparently 31 has been used as a measure, a sun-oriented number. Maybe that is because a sun child (Tama) is being born at One Tea. Hanga Takaure is more moon-oriented - no necessity to use 31 there.

One Tea is not only the birth place of the sun child but also the place of death for the moon - alive at the beginning and dead at the end, which could be expressed as half 84:


Aa5-59 (434)	Aa6-7 (465)		Aa6-14 (472)
*14 31 = 434**	*15 31 = 465**		*16 29.5 = 472**
*5 59 = 295 = 10 * 29.5**	*6 7 = 42**		*6 14 = 84**
13. Tama	*14. One Tea*		15. Hanga Takaure

Gb7-3 (413)	Gb8-1 (442)	Gb8-2 (443)	Ga1-1 (472)
*14 29.5 = 413**	*15 29.5 = 442.5**		*16 29.5 = 472**

In Aa6-7 ua is of the normal type, while at midsummer above a non-normal ua sign - meaning something else - has been used.

Beyond Hanga Takaure the measure could be different than before. 496 (= 16 * 31) at Aa6-38 may be meaningless. On the other hand, Aa6-39--40 constitute a pair, which could indicate that indeed 496 marks an end:


Aa6-14 (472)	Aa6-15	Aa6-16	Aa6-17	Aa6-18	Aa6-19	Aa6-20

Aa6-21	Aa6-22	Aa6-23	Aa6-24	Aa6-25	Aa6-26	Aa6-27

Aa6-28	Aa6-29	Aa6-30	Aa6-31 (489)	Aa6-32	Aa6-33

Aa6-34	Aa6-35	Aa6-36	Aa6-37	Aa6-38 (496)	Aa6-39	Aa6-40

Aa6-41	Aa6-42 (500)	Aa6-43	Aa6-44	Aa6-45	Aa6-46

Instead of using numbers here, the glyphs must first be studied. Immediately we can identify a double pau in Aa6-43, flanked by two 'running' tagata.

500 could be part of the design of the text. We should remember (from vaha mea):

... I hesitate somewhat to use number arguments, yet sooner or later it must be done. Counting glyphs from the specially designed vaha mea (in Aa6-67) to the exceptional hoea (in Ab4-69) we find a powerful numerical signal:

	499
Aa6-67		Ab4-69
0		500

500 may seem to be a coincidence (although for me it suggests a hundredfold rima - 'fire, fire') ...

Aa6-67 comes 25 glyphs later than Aa6-42, and there ought to be a glyph similar to Aa6-42 at position 1000:

	24		474		24
Aa6-42 (500)	24	Aa6-67 (525)	474	Ab4-44 (1000)	24	Ab4-69 (1025)

The location after manu kake seems to confirm the relevance of number 1000::


Ab4-43	Ab4-44	Ab4-45	Ab4-46	Ab4-47
999	1000	1001	1002	1003

The central glyph is Ab4-45 (where 4 * 45 = 180). Metoro here said e taha te manu:

Taha

To lean; to go down (of the sun in the evening). Taha-taha. 1. Side, edge; shore: taha-taha tai. 2. To move from side to side (of a boat), to swing. Vanaga.

1. To bend, sloping, to go hither and thither, to evade; ki taha, near; taha ke, to go in different directions; tahataha, frontier, horizon; hiriga tahataha, to cross, to go across; hakataha, to divert, to turn away, to go aside, to be on one side, to dodge, to shun, oblique, to incline the head, to turn over on another side, to avoid, to subject; mata hakataha, to consider; tae hakataha, immovable. 2. To tear. Tahatai (taha 1 - tai), littoral, coast, shore; tahatahatai, coast. Churchill.

To incline the head (taha) - cfr the kuhane station 20. Taharoa - is not something I can see depicted in Ab4-45. Possibly Metoro concluded from manu kake and the three toa signs that it was a time to turn away (taha).

Another manu kake comes 28 glyphs later, and the preceding ua is reversed:


Ab4-68	Ab4-69 (1025)	Ab4-70	Ab4-71


Aa6-7 (465)	Aa6-66	Aa6-72	Aa6-74	Ab4-70

Summer solstice could be located at Aa6-66 and Ab4-70 be at the opposite pole of a cycle:

			497
Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68		Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab4-70
524	525	526		1024	1025	1026

Summer solstice still is a reasonable explanation of Aa6-66--67. If there is a regular time flow reflected in the stream of glyphs, the conclusion should be that the 'dark time' around Hanga Takaure (Aa6-14) must refer to the death of moon or to the death of the first half year of the sun.

At midsummer it is 'high sun', equivalent to the phase of moon at full moon. Moon moving withershins can be at full moon at winter solstice and she should be at new moon at summer solstice. Therefore the death of moon (new moon phase) should occur at summer solstice - the time when the first half of the year must die.