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TRANSLATIONS
The link 'Excursion' leads to a chain of pages. The first one:
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I have classified
these three glyphs as belonging to the kava type:
The kava
signs are far from evident, though. The undulating 'limbs' caught my
attention.
All three glyphs are on the 'dark
side':
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208 |
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9 * 29 |
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Ga1-26 |
Gb1-6 |
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210 |
261 |
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471 |
210 glyphs presumably reflect the half year when sun is
'present', 26 weeks = 182 days, while 261 is the number of
nights when sun is 'absent', 26 weeks + 1 night = 183 nights.
The limited size of the tablet necessitated a shortening from
521 to 471 glyphs.
50 further summer glyphs couldn't be lodged, and with 210 = 5
(fingers, fire) * 6 (sun) * 7 (moon) a message of light ought to
be read. Especially as 261 = 9 (dark) * 29 (dark). Furthemore,
210 = half 420 ('the 7th flame of the sun', the cycle of
conjunction between the two great lights in the sky).
Of course,
looking at the glyphs without counting would also inform the
observant reader that Ga1-26 and Gb1-6 defined the time between
the solstices. The 'feathers' in Gb1-6 on the standing figure
would immediately tell which was summer solstice, or - seeing
Ga1-26 first - the figure sunk very low would immediately tell
about winter solstice.
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10 * 5 summer glyphs were not drawn on the tablet, while the dark season was drawn in full. I think the creator of the text decided to tell about the poor country:
| kainga kino / kahukahu o heke / rimurimu roroa / mai te unu / mai te vere / ka toe / kainga kino hoki / tai ua / ka okooko / tai papaku / ka ora |
| The land is bad. / The growing shoots cannot spread. / Too long is the tangle (of weeds) / when one pulls it out, / when one weeds it. / Leave (this bad land) behind (you)! |
| The uterus is bad. / The original yam cannot slide out / because of the long seaweeds. / Let's have a drink! / Let's have a bit (of food)! / Leave something behind! |
| The food is bad. / The octopus is hiding in his ink. / His tentacles sway like seeweeds / when one tries to pull him (from his hiding place) / when his tentacles / are parting. |
| A bad meal. / The hymen will not be deflowered / in the long tangle (of the pubic hair) / when one thrusts back and forth. / Let's have the fold (of the female genitals). / Tear open (the hymen)! |
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On all the glyphs
at the end of the 31 periods in the G calendar we have looked at
earlier there are 'feathers'
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5 * 18 = 90 obviously refers to the sunny half of the year. 56 (in 156) being the reverse of 65 (in 365) initiates thinking about the relationship between 24 and 42. Possibly 24 can be regarded as 6 * 4, with 6 the sun and 4 the square earth we live on, conveniently to be used measuring the time here on earth. 42 can similarly be imagined as 6 * 7, once again with 6 being the sun but this time with moon (7) as the other part. 24 implies sun and earth, 42 implies sun and moon.
Remarkably 521 - 156 = 13 * 28 + 1 and 521 + 156 = 13 * 52 + 1.
28 = 4 * 7 and 52 = 4 * 13. To add 156 to 365 results in 521 = 260 + 261 = 13 * 40 + 1.
To add another 156 to 365 results in 13 * 52 + 1, because 13 * 12 = 156:
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209 |
13 * 16 + 1 |
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365 |
13 * 28 + 1 |
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521 |
13 * 40 + 1 |
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677 |
13 * 52 + 1 |
I have added 209 to the set, so we will recognize it in case it appears somewhere among the rongorongo texts.
Next page follows from the link 'distribution of the feathers':
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Dividing into groups
with 5 glyphs (for fingers and fire) in each can result in this pattern:
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Period 21 stands out and I have blackmarked it because it seems to have a central function:
| 21 |
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| Ga5-30 |
Ga6-1 |
Ga6-2 |
Ga6-3 |
Ga6-4 |
The 20th period ought to describe the end of a great season and the 22nd period the beginning of another great season:
| 20 |
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| Ga5-22 |
Ga5-23 |
Ga5-24 |
Ga5-25 |
Ga5-26 |
Ga5-27 |
Ga5-28 |
Ga5-29 |
| 22 |
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| Ga6-5 |
Ga6-6 |
Ga6-7 |
Ga6-8 |
Ordinal numbers in Ga5-29 suggest a final (29) of 'fire' (5). The 20th period has in K its parallel in form of the 18th period and there, we have suspected, maybe a point of departure (pito) in the west:
Te pito may be the point of birth (navel) but birth implies death. Sun presumably departs at autumn equinox.
Inspired by the marvellous 156 I have included a link '156' which leads to:
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Remarkably 521 - 156
= 13 * 28 + 1 and 521 + 156 = 13 * 52 + 1.
28 = 4 * 7 and 52
= 4 * 13. To add 156 to 365 results in 521 = 260 + 261 = 13 * 40 +
1.
To add another 156
to 365 results in 13 * 52 + 1, because 13 * 12 = 156:
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365 |
13 * 28 + 1 |
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521 |
13 * 40 + 1 |
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677 |
13 * 52 + 1 |
The table can be
extended. 209 = 13 * 16 + 1 is an obvious addition.
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Number 1 may be te pito for
the numbers to count with. When added to an even number it takes on the
other side of the Janus sign - the exit.
209 = 13 * 16 + 1 in a way illustrates how beyond full moon there is a
pito for the growing moon season. 20 is a final number (4 hands) and 9
is a final number (1 more than the perfect 8 - i.e. te pito for
counting to 8). Zero (0) illustrate
te pito, too. The full moon in this case. Omotohi is the end
of 'sucking' (growing):
| Omo
To suck; omoaga, bulky cloud; ragi
omoaga cumulus; omoomo; to suck repeatedly, to
suckle; omotahi, to win everything at a game (lit: to
suck whole): omotahi-mai-á e au, he has cleaned me out;
omotohi, full (of the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina,
the moon is full. Vanaga.
Rima omo, infidelity, faithless,
unfaithful. Omoomo, to smack the lips, to suck the
breast, to smoke tobacco, to taste of; hakaomoomo, to
suckle, to paint. Churchill.
Ta.: Omotu, an ember, a coal. Mq.:
komotu, omotu, firebrand. Churchill. |
Tohi, we remember from the
myth about Maui meeting death:
... 'My child', said Makea now in a
tone of deep sorrow, 'there has been a bad omen for us. When I performed the
tohi ceremony over you I missed out a part of the prayers. I
remebered it too late. I am afraid this means that you are going to die ...
Probably the person in the Omotohi glyph is not sitting and eating
but sucking his thumb, a rebus for omo (top part) and tohi
(bottom part), while the full moon oval acts as a determinant for the moon
and also illustrats pito ('zero'):
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7 is moon and
24 means measuring sun time (6) down here on earth (4). The glyph is
number 36 counted from the beginning of the calendar - exit time.
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