TRANSLATIONS
We continue with the pages of the 'Excursion':
48 and 24 could rather be 49 and 25, 7 * 7 respectively 5 * 5, thereby including Eb5-11 respectively Eb5-12. 25 from Eb5-12 reaches up to (but not including) Eb6-2. Multiples of 25 are not congruent with 49. But if we take a little step backwards, from Eb1-37 to Eb6-19, Eb5-11 will be number 50 (beyond the central mauga). I think this was planned. 'Proof' is found in Eb6-19, a curious glyph with one component being vaha mea (opening of new light): Furthermore, 125 = 5 * 5 * 5, a suitable ordinal number for the time when sun is at his apex. But then the 150th glyph will no longer be Eb6-2:
Metoro's te mata no te henua may mean the 'hole' in the 'earth' (season).
Although other interpretations are possible, for example 'people of the island', mata is people and henua presumably means the (whole) island. ... The cult place of Vinapu is located between the fifth and sixth segment of the dream voyage of Hau Maka. These segments, named 'Te Kioe Uri' (inland from Vinapu) and 'Te Piringa Aniva' (near Hanga Pau Kura) flank Vinapu from both the west and the east. The decoded meaning of the names 'the dark rat' (i.e., the island king as the recipient of gifts) and 'the gathering place of the island population' (for the purpose of presenting the island king with gifts) links them with the month 'Maro' which is June ... Metoro's tara, which we have used as a label for another glyph type:
indicates that tara is the upper half of the tara glyph type (because it is probably the bottom half of the 'fire generator', Eb6-3, which incited Metoro to say tara). Where is the new light ignited? At 6 * 25 = 150 (Eb6-1), in the dark 'hole' when the island population gathers, in He Maro (cfr also the ordinal numbers 6-1 a suitable place for the new sun light). But only 25 glyphs from high summer to low winter is strange. Another consequence of shifting one step leftwards is that the last glyph (167) now will be a hanau glyph:
Ordinal numbers 6-18 confirm a final for the sun (6), 18 glyphs beyond mata no the henua. Earlier - already from the beginning - I was convinced that one established and secure point in this complex mess was that the kiore - henua glyph type meant the end of a season. Now it appears to have been used to indicate the beginning of a season (not only Eb6-19 but also Eb2-14). The difference is infinitesimal, although it feels strange for someone accustomed to western civilisation. The new end marker, Eb6-18, was referred to as hakapeka hia te tagata by Metoro. Whatever he may have exactly meant, clearly he recognized the final:
Hakapeka (to cross) implies another side, and the other side presumably begins at Eb6-19. |