Nothing to change or remark on here, except
that it is quite possible that mago
(Ka4-14) marks a 'black beginning' - sharks
belong to the sea. At the beginning of the
line which has - rather
arbitrarily - been numbered 13 on the Santiago
Staff (and which I am currently working on in
order to complete the documentation) I imagine we can find support for
this idea:
|
- |
 |
 |
|
mago (1) |
 |
 |
 |
3 |
3 |
|
- |
 |
 |
 |
3 |
6 |
|
moko (2) |
 |
 |
 |
3 |
9 |
|
- |
 |
 |
 |
3 |
12 |
|
mago (3) |
 |
 |
 |
3 |
15 |
|
- |
 |
 |
|
2 |
17 |
|
mago (4) |
 |
 |
 |
3 |
20 |
|
- |
 |
 |
 |
If moko is the 4th quarter of the
year, then mago here could mark the
other 3 quarters. Notice the pairwise
construction of the text.
A 'male' (left) and a 'female' (right),
mostly producing a 3rd one.
Moko and mago
here have the 'female' (2nd) position. Males
come first, females follows.
The 1st mago is
sitting down, a sign of the season of
'setting down' (as kumara into the
earth).
The 2nd mago (beyond
the moko season) is similar to the
following 3rd mago, the only difference being
the internal mark on the 3rd one.
Whatever
cycle is described here (year, half-year, or
months), it is fairly clear that moko and
mago are connected. The year may begin with the
season of the 1st mago - possibly the
kumara season (Vaitu nui, April):
|
1st quarter |
2nd quarter |
3rd quarter |
4th quarter |
|
He Anakena
(July) |
Tagaroa uri
(October) |
Tua haro (January) |
Vaitu nui
(April) |
|
Same as the previous month. |
Cleaning up of the fields. Fishing
is no longer taboo. Festival of
thanksgiving (hakakio) and
presents of fowl. |
Fishing. Because of the strong sun
very little planting is done. |
Planting of sweet potatoes. |
|
Hora iti
(August) |
Ko Ruti (November) |
Tehetu'upú (February) |
Vaitu poru
(May) |
|
Planting of plants growing above
the ground (i.e., bananas,
sugarcane, and all types of trees).
Good
time to fish for eel along the
shore. |
Cleaning of the banana plantations,
but only in the morning since the
sun becomes too hot later in the
day. Problems with drought. Good
month for fishing and the
construction of houses (because of
the long days). |
Like the previous month.
Some sweet
potatoes are planted where there are
a lot of stones (pu). |
Beginning of the cold season. No
more planting. Fishing is taboo,
except for some fishing along the
beach. Harvesting of paper mulberry
trees (mahute). Making of
tapa capes (nua). |
|
Hora nui
(September) |
Ko Koró (December) |
Tarahao (March) |
He Maro
(June) |
|
Planting of plants growing below
the ground (i.e.,
sweet potatoes,
yams, and taro).
A
fine spring month. |
Because of the increasing heat, work
ceases in the fields. Time for
fishing, recreation, and
festivities. The new houses are
occupied (reason for the
festivities). Like the previous
month, a good time for surfing (ngaru)
on the beach of Hangaroa O Tai. |
Sweet potatoes are planted in the
morning;
fishing is
done in the afternoon. |
Because of the cold weather, nothing
grows (tupu meme), and there
is hardly any work done in the
fields. Hens grow an abundance of
feathers, which are used for the
festivities. The time of the great
festivities begins, also for the
father-in-law (te ngongoro mo te
hungavai).
There
is much singing (riu). |
Presumably there is a
wordplay in pu (io Tehetu'upú)
in which stones (pu) are alluding to
the stones put into the umu holes (pu).
The earth oven is like a pregnant woman, in
which next generation is being 'baked'. The
'lizard' (moko) who hides in holes (pu)
can be understood as the sun being 'buried'
in the ground (below the horizon). It ought to happen
in the kumara
season, when 'fruits' are created.
If 2 glyphs are needed for
each complete 'sentence', then the 1st
mago + moko counts as 12 / 2 = 6,
suggesting sun. The 2nd and 3rd mago
counts as 8 / 2 = 4 (earth or moon). 6 + 4 =
10 may then indicate the 'seasons of the sun',
with 6 months being present and 4 absent.
The text may be
alluding to the sun year with moko at
midsummer.
The eating persons (a pair) in
the 1st mago sequence suggest spring.
In the moko sequence the
vertical straight line inside a tao
glyph suggests midsummer. In spring light
grows (kai gesture), while the
mago glyph here shows Y ('dead') -
suggesting the mago glyph type may be
associated with darkness.
The
spectacular 20th glyph could refer to winter
solstice. The 5 glyphs not counted contain a
pair similar to Kb4-16:
|
30 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Kb4-15 |
Kb4-16 |
Kb4-17 |
Kb4-18 |
The last of the uncounted
glyphs is an extraordinary haú without
'feathers' (no light).
Next page in the dictionary (in the series
from the hyperlink 'revise the model':
|
A kind of summing up:
|
1st calendar |
|
10 |
A |
Ka2-1--6 |
6 |
10 |
36 |
|
B |
Ka2-7--10 |
4 |
|
24 |
C |
Ka2-11--16 |
6 |
12 |
26 |
|
D |
Ka2-17--22 |
6 |
|
E |
Ka3-1--4 |
4 |
12 |
14 |
|
F |
Ka3-5--8 |
4 |
|
G |
Ka3-9--12 |
4 |
|
H (= 0) |
Ka3-13--14 |
2 |
|
2nd
calendar |
|
23 |
0 (= H) |
Ka3-13--14 |
2 |
*76 |
|
1 |
Ka3-15 |
1 |
|
1-5 |
Ka3-16--Ka4-12 |
18 |
20 |
|
6 |
Ka4-13--14 |
2 |
|
*52 |
6-16 |
Ka4-15--Kb1-10 |
26 |
*52 |
|
16-20 |
Kb1-11--*Kb2-14 |
*26 |
|
1 |
21 |
*Kb2-15 |
1 |
36 glyphs in the
1st calendar can be reduced by 10 at the beginning of line
Ka2 to reach 26, the same number as we have found twice in
the center between mago and moko (in the 2nd
calendar).
Redmarked
ordinal numbers in the table indicate where the Rei
glyphs are. There are 20 glyphs between Ka3-15 and Ka4-15, and 25
between Ka4-15 and Kb1-11 (the last Rei), adding up
to 48 if we include also Ka3-15, Ka4-15 and Kb1-11. The 2nd
and the 3rd (last) Rei, with intermediate glyphs,
measure out 48 glyphs.
36 glyphs (1st
calendar) + *76 glyphs (2nd calendar) add up to *112, but we
must subtract 2 (because H = 0). If we then subtract also
the glyphs Ka2-1--10, we will reach *100 glyphs.
Ka4-14 (mago)
and *Kb2-16 (the 'humback') presumably together mark beginning
and end of the summer season. In the table above mago
has ordinal number 26 + 1 + 18 + 2 =
47 (counted beyond the 1st Rei). The following glyph, Ka4-15, has ordinal
number 48 and includes a henua. Kb1-10 (47 + 26 = 73) is a henua,
likewise is *Kb2-14 (73 + *26 = *99) a henua:
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