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TRANSLATIONS
Next page in the glyph dictionary is due:
Suddenly we become aware of a confirmation of Gb1-6 marking summer solstice rather than winter solstice, viz. the standing tagata. We have documented in the summary for tagata (in the glyph dictionary):
The sign added in Gb1-5 makes the meaning different from that in Eb5-4. Is it an apex sign to determine it is the end of 'summer'? Probably there is more to it, though. What a relief to have found the major cardinal points:
I guess Ga1-1 is the beginning while Ga1-5 and Gb8-30 are final glyphs. 471 = 210 + 261 = (1 + 208 + 1) + (236 + 25):
This is where it all began, with the discovery of the two viri variants (Ga1-26 and Gb1-26) together standing like posts outside the dark season with 9 * 29 = 261 glyphs. 261 is 1 more than 260, implying darkness. Because 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 (8 'doublings') = 256, and inspired by Aa8-31 (with a kava sign) being number 1280 = 5 * 256 a creative mind leap made me understand that it is possible to add 4 fingers to the set of 8 'doublings' before 261 is reached. 260 is the last number in the light. Sun is present during 10 months according to the ancient Polynesian cosmos. Each such month ought to have 26 days, leaving 100 days to the time when sun is absent. 10 * 26 + 100 = 360. Another - more probable - equation is 10 * 26 + 4 * 26 = 364, 10 for the sun and 4 to the moon. 26 is possible to use in a similar fashion even if we change 14 (moon) to 18 (sun). 468 = 208 + 260 = 8 * 26 + 10 * 26 = 18 * 26:
In order to reach 209 = 13 * 16 + 1 for 'growing sun' (which seems necessary because 16 implies the full measure of growing moon and 13 * 28 + 1 = 365), Gb1-5 must take on the role of a 'mauga' (possibly hinted at be way of the apex form at bottom right). 8 is the perfect number and can be applied both to moon and sun. Having establised 8 * 26 for 'growing sun' it necessarily follows that the rest must have 10 * 26 glyphs, otherwise 18 * 26 will not be reached. The calendar is a calendar for the yearly path of the sun. The pattern suggests the reading of the text should begin at Ga1-1 (the first 'zero'), because mauga in Ga5-19 forces us to count Ga1-26 - it is no 'zero'. Otherwise Ga5-19 will not be in the center of the 1st half year. Therefore Gb1-5 together with Gb1-6 will form a pair of glyphs which should not be 'counted in the light'. It was Tagaroa who alone in the night cracked his shell, he was 'self-begotten' (cfr '... the Earth anew / Rise all green / from the waves again ... / Then fields unsowed / bear ripened fruit ...'). Ca1-2 (in a 'ghostly state') and Ea9-26 (notice 9 * 29 = 261) have no 'tails' as the normal tara glyphs - they are 'self'-begotten'. Probably Ga1-1 is also a 'self-begotten' tara, the natural beginning of a rongorongo text:
From the beginning at Ga1-1 light will gradually grow. A neccessary turning point to back (tu'a) the cycle follows after 208 + 24 = 232 glyphs:
Suddenly the 'coinage' changes from light (26) to dark (29). We can alternatively quickly transform 18 * 26 into 36 * 13, with 16 * 13 = 208 glyphs in the 'growing' half of the year and 20 * 13 = 260 glyphs in the 2nd half of the year. Growing year has (1 + 24) + (208 + 1) = 25 + 209 = 234 glyphs. Descending year has 1 + 236 = 237 glyphs. 234 + 237 = 471. The dark season has (1 + 24) + 236 = 261 glyphs. There is only one origin in the dark, viz. Ga1-1. We have noticed how 236 = 4 * 59, presumably an expression of 'earth' (4) being ruled by the moon (59 = 2 * 29.5). From the fact that 10 * 26 + 4 * 26 = 364 we can guess 'earth' to be an expression for the time when sun is 'down in the earth' (on the other side of the equator). 4 then becomes a symbol both for 'earth' and moon (who is in charge when sun is absent). 236 = 8 * 29.5, which leaves 364 - 236 = 128 (= 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2) to the time ruled by the sun, according to moon measure (128 = 7 'doublings'). But then we have mixed glyphs and nights, making a joke. Yet, the glyph beyond our mauga glyph is number 128, if we count from Ga1-2 and disregard Ga1-26. There are 232 = 8 * 29 glyphs in the growing year (not counting 'zeroes') and 236 in the descending year:
I have classified Ga1-1 as a variant of tara in the glyph catalogue. I cannot change that, even if I now can see a certain similarity in form with the viri glyphs. There is also a similarity in meaning between tara and viri - both signify points of change. Given the perfect number (8) and the necessary double-month counting (29 and 29.5) we unavoidably have to count with 468:
Ordinal number 350 for Gb4-33 is equal to 5 * 70, possibly hinting at fire (5) and moon (7 * 10) and if so then describing the condition when sun has left (at midsummer) although it is still hot and light. At autumn equinox it changes, light is vanishing (reversed hau tea). From this we have reason to investigate the glyphs at ordinal number 232 / 2 = 116 counting from Ga1-2:
A bird in front of viri. Another similar bird occurs somewhat later in the text:
I decide to add both Ga5-8 and Ga6-19 to the viri glyphs in the catalogue (Kb3-9 was already there). From Ga5-8 to Ga6-19 there are 42 glyphs:
The ordinal numbers in Ga6-19 suggest the bird is a kind of mauga - cfr Ga5-19. Is there a season, 42 glyphs long, at the middle of the growing sun year? 232 = 95 + 42 + 95 and 95 = 5 * 19. We leave the trail here for the moment. |
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