TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Now we return to next page in the glyph dictionary:

In Tahua, we have seen, there is a specially designed tara glyph, drawn as if the top was a separate part from the rest. The top looks like a reversed version of the 'body' of the little 'bird' at the beginning of side a:


Aa5-17	Aa1-1

A specially designed vaha mea, also drawn as if the top was a separate part from the rest, is located somewhat later in the text:


Aa6-67	Ab4-69

Here there is a certain resemblance between the top part and the hoea glyph in Ab4-69. When classifying glyphs I judged Aa6-67 to belong both to vaha mea and to hoea. Likewise Aa1-1 became classified as both vae kore and as GD119 (a so far unnamed glyph type).

Also, Metoro said mea at Ab4-69 - whereas hoea means its opposite: instrument for tattooing (black).

Whatever Aa6-67 may signify it is fairly clear that vaha mea appears not only around winter solstice but also in summer. There must be an 'opening' (vaha) also at summer solstice, because north of the equator time is winter solstice.

The hyperlink 'Ab4-69' lead to:

I hesitate somewhat to use number arguments, yet sooner or later it must be done. Counting glyphs from the specially designed vaha mea (in Aa6-67) to the exceptional hoea (in Ab4-69) we find a powerful numerical signal:

	499
Aa6-67		Ab4-69
0		500

500 may seem to be a coincidence (although for me it suggests a hundredfold rima - 'fire, fire'). Before arguing further, however, the reader has to be convinced there is no fault in my calculations:

a1	90		483	b1	82		313
a2	85			b2	85
a3	76			b3	77
a4	82			b4	69	80
					11		351
a5	83			b5	80
a6	67	84		b6	92
	17		187
a7	85			b7	84
a8	85			b8	84
sum	670			sum	664

In the rongorongo system of measuring glyph distances, it is not always the normal counting that counts. 500 is just to draw our attention, and the main signal to observe is 314 (100 * π), i.e. the fact that Ab4-69 is the next to 314th glyph on side b. Half a cycle is completed at Ab4-69 (because the whole cycle is computed by using 2π, or 628).

Aa6-67 and Ab4-69 serve as markers defining half a cycle. Therefore both of the glyphs are aberrant from the norm (in order to catch attention).

The total number of glyphs on the Tahua tablet is 1,334 and - as I have mentioned at hetuu in this dictionary - 314 is a number involved:

Keiti (E)			Large Santiago (H)			Tahua (A)
side a	314	100π	side a	*648	200π+20	side a	670	200π+42
side b	314	100π	side b	*648	200π+20	side b	664	200π+36
sum	628	200π	sum	*1296	400π+40	sum	1334	400π+78

The distance from Aa1-1 up to and including Aa5-17 is 350 glyphs, i.e. 7 * 50 (in contrast to 10 * 50). Counting short, however, we reach 348 = 12 * 29:

	348
Aa1-1	348	Aa5-17

The 'mea' link leads to two successive pages:

Ab4-69 is the reflection (reversal) of the preceding Ab4-68:


Ab4-63	Ab4-64	Ab4-65	Ab4-66	Ab4-67

Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab4-70	Ab4-71	Ab4-72
e haha	e mea	te ua roa	kua kake te manu	ki te tagata tui - maro

At Ab4-68 Metoro saw haha, i.e. a mouth:

Haha

1. Mouth (oral cavity, as opposed to gutu, lips). 2. To carry piggy-back. He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga.

1. To grope, to feel one's way; po haha, darkness, obscure. 2. Mouth, chops, door, entrance, window; haha pipi, small mouth; haha pipiro, foul breath; ohio haha, bit of bridle; tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. Churchill.

Together with the following mea we are very close to vaha mea, as if there was a word play (haha mea) together with a glyph play:


Aa6-67	Ab4-68--69
vaha mea	haha - mea

In Aa6-67 the (sun) fish is designed as if being swallowed by a hoea glyph. At summer solstice the opposite of mea occurs - the dark season will begin.

Ab4-68--69, half a cycle later, has mea at right. Side b on Tahua probably refers to winter. In winter there will come a time when sun (mea) returns.

The simple (not compounded by other elements) hoea glyphs in the Tahua text are 10, only 2 on side a and the rest on side b:

		red for side a			2
Aa8-14	Aa8-33	red for side a			2
					8
Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab5-49	Ab5-59	Ab5-61
			black for side b
Ab6-4	Ab6-11	Ab8-29	black for side b

Obviously the 2 on side a are different from those on side b. Among the differences observed one is the orientationg of the bottom half: on side a the opening at the bottom end is towards right, whereas on side b the opening is towards left.

One glyph is though reversed, viz. Ab4-69.

We are rewarded by an ua glyph following the reversal pair:


Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab4-70	Sa1-104	Sa1-201	Sa1-202	Sa1-203
e haha	e mea	te ua roa	4	5	6	7

And in Ab4-71 a bird (instead of a fish as in midsummer according to Kb1-7) may pinpoint the winter solstice (from where sun returns):


Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab4-70	Ab4-71	Kb1-7

The body of the fish in Kb1-7 has a pronounced midline, and probably it was designed to be show an inverted henua ora. The meaning of an inverted henua ora seems to be the season of growing life, quite in harmony with a rising fish. The rising fish reaches his maximum at summer solstice, illustrated as manu kake with a fish body.

Kake

Kakea, to come near, to embark. P Pau.: kake, to climb, to ascend. Mgv.: kake, the arrival of shoals of spawning fish. Mq.: kake, to climb up a valley. Ta.: ae, to climb, to ascend. Churchill.

Sa.: a'e, upward, to go up; sa'e, to elevate one leg, as in the act of falling in a club match; 'a'e, to ascend, to rise. To.: hake, upward, to ascend. Fu.: ake, up, to ascend; sake, ro raise the leg at one in derision or mockery; kake, to climb, to ascend. Niuē: hake, up, going up. Uvea: ake, up; kake, to go up. Ma.: ake, upward; kake, to climb, to ascend. Mq.: ake, on high, upward; kake, to ascend. Mgv.: ake, upward. Bukabuka: ake, up. Ta.: ae, up, to go up, to ascend, to climb. Ha.: ae, to raise, to lift up, to mount. Fotuna: no-jikijiake, to lift up; no-tukake, to stand upright. Nukuoro: kake, to go up. Nuguria: kake, up; hanage, northwest. Rapanui: kake a, to go abroad. Vi.: thake, upward; thaketa, to dig or lift up. Churchill 2.

There are 13 (= 4 + 9) inverted henua ora fishes in the Tahua text:


Aa3-13	Aa3-27	Aa4-25	Aa4-41

Ab1-38	Ab2-32	Ab2-67	Ab4-27	Ab5-45	Ab5-60

Ab6-5	Ab6-10	Ab8-57

Notably one of them on each side (redmarked above) are combined with mea ke. The ordinal numbers suggest a parallel: 25 is the next to last of the 26 of the ruling sun king, while 27 is the next to last of the 28 illuminated moon nights. There is order everywhere in mother nature, therefore also in the rongorongo texts.