TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

It is convenient to have the facts, as far as they can be reconstructed, in a table:

21	7	*Kb2-16	*Kb2-18	3	24	3
22		Kb3-1	Kb3-6	6		9
23		Kb3-7	Kb3-8	2		11
24		Kb3-9	Kb3-10	2		13
25		Kb3-11	Kb3-13	3		16
26		Kb3-14	Kb3-16	3		19
27		Kb4-1	Kb4-5	5		24
28	7	Kb4-6	Kb4-9	4	*34	28
29		Kb4-10	Kb4-14	5		33
30		Kb4-15	Kb4-18	4		37
31		Kb4-19	*Kb5-3	*4		*41
32		*Kb5-4	*Kb5-8	*5		*46
33		*Kb5-9	*Kb5-12	*4		*50
34		*Kb5-13	*Kb5-20	*8		*58

According to the reconstruction there are two groups of 7 sequences beyond summer (which probably is ending with *Kb2-15), the first group with 24 and the second with *34 glyphs. The total, *58, can be understood as twice 29 (the number of lunar nights - disregarding ½). The redmarked half of the table corresponds to, I imagine, the season following summer - 'humpback' and the late autumn season. Then comes the other half of the table, from the 3rd viri (Kb4-6) to the horizontal (4th) viri in *Kb5-12, with ordinal number *26 counted long from Kb4-6 (and number *50 counted long from *Kb2-16. The 3rd viri is halfway between the 'humpback' and the 4th (horizontal) viri:

	*23		*24		*7
*Kb2-16		Kb4-6		*Kb5-12		*Kb5-20
		1		*26		*34
1		*25		*50		*58
autumn?		end of calendrical year?			new year?

According to Barthel 2 the 27th kuhane station, Papa O Pea, is the residence for the future king, and possibly the 34th group of glyphs allude to Papa O Pea:

34
	*Kb5-13	*Kb5-14	*Kb5-15	*Kb5-16
	*27	*28	*29	*30

	*Kb5-17	*Kb5-18	*Kb5-19	*Kb5-20
	*31	*32	*33	*34

Pea

(Also peapea): To go away with bits of food or mud sticking to one's face or garments. Vanaga.

Peaha, perhaps ... maybe, chance, doubtful; reoreo peaha ... Ma.: pea, perhaps. Peapea, an erasure ... hakapeapea ... Peau, to sweep all away. Ma.: peau, to be turned away. Churchill.

Peau, a wave (Sa., To., Fu., Fotuna, Niuē, Mq., Nuguria); Mgv.: peau, peahu, id. Churchill 2.

The 'erasure', 'to sweep all away', and the curious (but surely significant in some way) 'to go away with bits of food or mud sticking to one's face or garments' is one theme of pea. The other is the element of uncertainty 'chance', 'doubtful' - reminding us about the 'chamber of hazard' (Ubšugina) at the beginning of the year (or rather half-years) in ancient Babylon.

A great 'wave' (peau) is of course both sweeping all away and making the further voyage uncertain. Waves on land are earthquakes - signs of major changes.

We must now try to reconstruct also the first line of the K text. The groups of glyphs in line Ka1 cannot be labelled with letters, because A was used at the beginning of line Ka2. I instead intend to continue beyond number 34 - the winter season lies both at the end of the old year and at the beginning of the new year:

35							6	6
35	Ka1-1	Ka1-2	Ka1-3	Ka1-4	Ka1-5	Ka1-6	6	6
36							6	12
36	Ka1-7	Ka1-8	Ka1-9	Ka1-10	Ka1-11	Ka1-12	6	12
37	possibly 4 glyphs missing here				1 glyph possibly missing		*8	*20
			Ka1-101	Ka1-102		Ka1-201
			*Ka1-17	*Ka1-18		*Ka1-20
38					groups (35-37) according to my very early efforts to document the K text		4	*24
	Ka1-202	Ka1-203	Ka1-204	Ka1-205
	*Ka1-21	*Ka1-22	*Ka1-23	*Ka1-24

The reconstructed number of glyphs for the first text line is encouraging *24. The strange Ka1-201 has number *20, also a good sign. We can try to add the new 'facts' at the end of the table:

21	7	*Kb2-16	*Kb2-18	3	24	3
22		Kb3-1	Kb3-6	6		9
23		Kb3-7	Kb3-8	2		11
24		Kb3-9	Kb3-10	2		13
25		Kb3-11	Kb3-13	3		16
26		Kb3-14	Kb3-16	3		19
27		Kb4-1	Kb4-5	5		24
28	7	Kb4-6	Kb4-9	4	*34	28
29		Kb4-10	Kb4-14	5		33
30		Kb4-15	Kb4-18	4		37
31		Kb4-19	*Kb5-3	*4		*41
32		*Kb5-4	*Kb5-8	*5		*46
33		*Kb5-9	*Kb5-12	*4		*50
34		*Kb5-13	*Kb5-20	*8		*58
35	4	Ka1-1	Ka1-6	6	*24	6
36		Ka1-7	Ka1-12	6		12
37		*Ka1-13	*Ka1-20	*8		*20
38		*Ka1-21	*Ka1-24	4		*24

The total number of glyphs in K may therefore have been *58 + *24 + 36 + *74 = *192. On side a there seems to once have been *24 + 36 + 37 = *97 glyphs and on side b 24 + *34 + *37 = *95 glyphs.