TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Is it possible to establish glyph distance relationships in the text of Small Washington Tablet (R)? The text is destroyed at some places, which makes counting difficult. However, if we are to count, then the distance to be measured probably is between Ra3-103 and Ra5-202, the only (remaining) glyph in R belonging to hua poporo:

Investigating the glyphs beyond Ra3-103 we find:


Ra3-101	Ra3-102	Ra3-103	Ra3-104	Ra3-105	Ra3-106


Ra3-107	Ra3-108	Ra3-109	Ra3-110	Ra3-111	Ra3-112	Ra3-113


Ra3-114	Ra3-115	Ra3-116	Ra3-117	Ra3-118	Ra3-119	Ra3-120

Ra3-121	Ra3-122	Ra3-123	Ra3-124	Ra3-125	Ra3-126


Ra3-127	Ra3-128	Ra3-129	Ra4-1	Ra4-2	Ra4-3	Ra4-4

Ra4-5	Ra4-6	Ra4-7	Ra4-8	Ra4-9	Ra4-10


Ra4-11	Ra4-12	Ra4-13	Ra4-14	Ra4-15	Ra4-16	Ra4-17	Ra4-18


Ra4-19	Ra4-20	Ra4-21	Ra4-22

Ra4-23	Ra4-24	Ra4-25	Ra4-26
Probably no glyph totally missing here at the end of line a4.

Probably one glyph missing here.						Maybe three glyphs have been lost here.
Probably one glyph missing here.	Ra5-101	Ra5-102	Ra5-103	Ra5-104	Ra5-105	Maybe three glyphs have been lost here.

...
...	Ra5-201	Ra5-202

Ra5-203	Ra5-204	Ra5-205	Ra5-206	Ra5-207

Ra5-208	Ra5-209	Ra5-210	Ra5-211

Ra5-212	Ra5-213	Ra5-214	Ra5-215

A preliminary counting results in:

Ra3-103	26
a4	26 (?)
Ra5-202	11 ?
sum	63 ?
long count	64 ?
short count	62 ?
63 = 3 * 3 * 7	counting backwards is not possible because too many glyphs are destroyed
64 = 8 * 8 = 2 * 2 * *2 2 * 2 * 2**
62 = 2 * 31

The occurrence of two Rei and one haú glyphs in this distance (64) makes it possible to divide the text into parts:

Ra3-103	10	26	52 (?)
Ra3-119	16
Ra4-26	26 (?)
Ra5-105	6 (?)		16 (?)
Ra5-202	5 (?)
Ra5-207	5

The reconstructed glyph number for haú is *Ra5-16. The question marks are therefore only put within parentheses.

From hura (Ra3-103) to hua poporo (Ra5-202) - counted long - the distance in glyphs can be reconstructed as *64, i. e. 8 squared.

In Tahua we also measured on side a, though from hua poporo to hura.

The so far identified parallels between the glyph texts of Tahua and Small Santiago are listed here:

Of 26 identified external parallel glyph sequences, these 10 are found in Small Santiago.				14	a6-53--58 / ... Ra3-101--106	6	(6)
				15	a6-77--82 / Ra3-107--111	6	5

				18	a8-56--66 / Ra4-11-- ... a5-105 ... / Hb11-47--b12-17	11	(21) / 24

				21	b4-15--20 / five texts	6	6-9
9	a4-19--30 / Rb7-119--b8-1	12	12
10	a5-51--67 / Ra1-103--118	17	16	23	b4-24--28 / Ga3-10--16 / Ra6-18--23	5	7 / 6
11	a5-68--73 / Bb8-33--37 / Ra1-119--122 ...	6	5 / (4)
12	a5-82--a6-1 / Ra2-7--8	3	2
13	a6-27--46 / Ra2-9--24 ...	24	(16)

The 10 parallel glyph sequences are well ordered:

9	Aa4	Rb7-b8	14	Aa6	Ra3
10	Aa5	Ra1	15	Aa6	Ra3
11	Aa5	Ra1	18	Aa8	Ra4-a5
12	Aa5-a6	Ra2	21	Ab4	Ra6
13	Aa6	Ra2	23	Ab4	Ra6

Increasing line numbers in A always imply increasing line numbers in R. Parallel number 15 is redmarked, because it is the one with hura:


Aa6-53	Aa6-54	Aa6-55		Aa6-56	Aa6-57	Aa6-58
				-
Ra3-101	Ra3-102	Ra3-103	Ra3-104	-	Ra3-105	Ra3-106

Hua poporo in Ra5-202 has no obvious parallel in Tahua. Luckily, though, there are other parallel texts:

...			-
	Ra5-201			Ra5-202

Hb12-29	Hb12-30		Hb12-31	Hb12-32

Eb6-6	Eb6-7		Eb6-8
			The parallels in H, E and B continue on next page.
Bb12-11		Bb12-12

The parallels in H, E and B continue from previous page and some new (G, K, M) appear. They continue on next page.

Ra5-203	Ra5-204	Ra5-205	Ra5-206	Ra5-207

Hb12-33	Hb12-34	Hb12-35	Hb12-36	Hb12-37

Eb6-9	Eb6-10	Eb6-11		Eb6-12

Bb12-13	Bb12-14	Bb12-15		Bb12-16

Ga2-20	Ga2-21	Ga2-22		Ga2-23

Ka3-8	Ka3-9	Ka3-10		Ka3-11

Ma2-201	Ma2-202	Ma2-203		Ma2-204

The parallels - see previous page - continue, though gradually petering out.

Ra5-208	Ra5-209	Ra5-210	Ra5-211	Ra5-212	Ra5-213	Ra5-214	Ra5-215


Hb12-38	Hb12-39	Hb12-40	Hb12-41	Hb12-42	Hb12-43

Hb12-44	Hb12-45	Hb12-46	Hb12-47	Hb12-48	Hb12-49

				-
Eb6-13	Eb6-14	Eb6-15	Eb6-16	-


Bb12-17	Bb12-18	Bb12-19	Bb12-20	Bb12-21	Bb12-22

Bb12-23	Bb12-24	Bb12-25	Bb12-26	Bb12-27

			-
Ga2-24	Ga2-25	Ga2-26	-

			-
Ka3-12	Ka3-13	Ka3-14	-

	Here the text in M is destroyed, but we have another text (N) which happen to begin here after a similarly destroyed part:
Ma2-205


Nb3-101	Nb3-102	Nb3-103	Nb3-104	Nb3-105	Nb3-106
			-
Nb3-107	Nb3-108	Nb3-109	-

And so we are back on the trail again, the trail which we left at the end of the haú part in the dictionary.

Hua poporo arrives - in the parallel texts H and E - immediately before the parallels to period 'zero' in the calendars of G and K, e.g. at Eb6-8 in the 24th period of Keiti:

24
	Eb5-32		Eb5-33	Eb5-34	Eb5-35		Eb6-1	Eb6-2	Eb6-3

	Eb6-4	Eb6-5		Eb6-6		Eb6-7	Eb6-8

	Eb6-9	Eb6-10		Eb6-11		Eb6-12	Eb6-13	Eb6-14	Eb6-15
							*16 glyphs (counted long) from redmarked Rei* to haú.**
	Eb6-16	Eb6-17		Eb6-18		Eb6-19

The reversal in Eb6-9 resembles the reversal at Aa6-55.

In the glyph dictionary, at niu, we have documented hua poporo in Ga7-15 parallel to the unusual inverted henua ora (Kb4-19):

The end of the G and K calendars:

32
32	Ga7-11	Ga7-12	Ga7-13	Ga7-14
30
30	Kb4-15	Kb4-16	Kb4-17	Kb4-18

33
	Ga7-15	Ga7-16	Ga7-17
31		...
	Kb4-19		Kb5-101	Kb5-102

Hua poporo, we tentatively can conclude, means inverted henua ora, i.e. time to 'leave harbour':

To summarize: While rei miro signifies a 'canoe' which is turning around, in order to begin a new straight course, henua ora is at the opposite end of the 'travel'.

The turning around of the 'canoe' is a shaky operation which takes place before the next phase of the travel can begin. Therefore we find rei miro immediately before the new straight course (= season in the calendar).

At the final end of the 'travel', at the 'full stop', henua ora is located. There is no more movement and the 'canoe' is in its harbour. The canoe is 'sleeping'.

We therefore find henua ora immediately after the last straight course (= season in the calendar).