TRANSLATIONS

Eb3-4 is located in the 5th period.

TRANSLATIONS

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In the 5th period of the E calendar spring equinox is described. Then follows (in period 6) an overview:

5
	Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3	Eb3-4	Eb3-5	Eb3-6
	34	35	36	37	38	39
6				34 etc are ordinal numbers counted from the beginning of the calendar (Eb1-37).
	Eb3-7	Eb3-8	Eb3-9
	40	41	42

	Eb3-10	Eb3-11	Eb3-12	Eb3-13	Eb3-14	Eb3-15
	1	2	3	4	5	6
					Eb3-11 is located at the beginning of summer.
	Eb3-16	Eb3-17	Eb3-18	Eb3-19
	7	8	9	10

The ordinal numbers suggest a stop at 36 (Eb3-3), and at Rei in the glyph dictionary is stated:

The Keiti calendar has more rei miro glyphs to offer, for example:


Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3	Eb3-4	Eb3-5

Eb5-4	Eb5-5	Eb5-6	Eb5-7	Eb5-8

The rei miro glyphs are here used at the beginning of respectively at the end of the summer season (as defined by the equinoxes).

The rei miro glyphs were used by the rongorongo men to mark cardinal points, i.e. points where the direction of the journey of the sun canoe across the blue sea of the sky had to be adjusted.

The orientation of the canoe as seen in the glyphs is therefore 'standing on its front end'. It has stopped for a moment and a new straight course will soon begin.

Whereas the sun is steady and always the same the moon is the incarnation of change. Therefore the rei miro glyphs have 'appendices' in form of 'sickles' below the hull, a sign to indicate the moon. Rei miro glyphs always appear when change is due, never at other times.

The calendars for the year had the solstices and equinoxes located at points which did not coincide with the points where the major calendar periods changed. In that respect their view corresponds with our view: New year arrives, for example, later than winter solstice and spring equinox before the 1st of April.

Later on, at tagata, a more precise description is given, where the Rei glyphs are located at the beginning.

Already at henua ora:

... 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).

Tagata - a fully grown season - of course must precede Rei:

5				In Eb3-1 the man with a 'barren' hand illustrates winter, which will give way for the summer half of the year. Eb3-4 describes the turning around of the sun canoe - i.e. in period 5 winter still rules.
	Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3

	Eb3-4	Eb3-5	Eb3-6
18				In Eb5-4 the man illustrates summer, which will give way for the winter half of the year. Eb5-7 describes the turning around of the sun canoe - i.e. in period 18 summer still rules.
	Eb5-4	Eb5-5	Eb5-6

	Eb5-7	Eb5-8	Eb5-9

The earlier descriptions of period 5 in Keiti are therefore in harmony with counting to 36, the new fact presented here at ragi.

36 and 42 have, furthermore, been emphasized as important ordinal numbers in the tagata chapter of the glyph dictionary. Redmarking them at Eb3-3 and Eb3-9 does not need any explanation.

At vai Eb3-9 was located at the beginning of a sequence of glyphs:

6			*Only 2 glyphs. Moon (winter) is 'finished' (maro, GD67, with 4 'feathers').*
	Eb3-7	Eb3-8

	Eb3-9	Eb3-10	Eb3-11	Eb3-12	Eb3-13	Eb3-14	Eb3-15	Eb3-16
				2 + 8 + 3 = 13 glyphs
	Eb3-17	Eb3-18	Eb3-19	2 + 8 + 3 = 13 glyphs
15			*GD15 (tagata) suggests the season of GD16 is fully grown, and the 6-feather maro* marks its end.**
15	Eb4-26	Eb4-27

Now, on the other hand, Eb3-9 is determined as the 6th and last glyph covering the distance from 36 to 42. We can consequently reorder the structure so far into:


Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3
34	35	36

Eb3-4	Eb3-5	Eb3-6
37	38	39

Eb3-7	Eb3-8	Eb3-9
40	41	42

Possibly we could add the glyphs of the 4th period and reach 12 glyphs ordered in triplets:


Eb2-25	Eb2-26	Eb2-27
31	32	33

In the next page of the dictionary I am discussing the meaning of these two ragi glyphs, and there I possibly ought to include the 4 * 3 structure above.

The elbow ornament in Eb3-9 seems to indicate 'complete' (in a meaning which could be close to that in tagata glyphs) - in contrast with the 'incomplete' ornament in Eb3-1:


Eb3-1	Eb3-9
34	42

In the 6th period the first 3 glyphs appear to be related to the end of the '7th flame season' and the following 10 glyphs motivate a new order number sequence. Originally I had in mind to present the structure as 7 + 3 = 10 glyphs:

But space limitation made me group together only 6 of the 7, leaving Eb3-16 to the following line in the table.

Given that the 5th period is divided in 3 + 3 glyphs - which may be the center part of a group with 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 glyphs - the 6th period could possibly also end with 3 glyphs which belong to a group with triplets of glyphs:

6
	Eb3-17	Eb3-18	Eb3-19
	8 (50)	9 (51)	10 (52)
7
	Eb3-20	Eb3-21	Eb3-22
	11 (53)	12 (54)	13 (55)

	Eb3-23	Eb3-24	Eb3-25
	14 (56)	15 (57)	16 (58)

Although the pattern of earlier triplets seems to be 4 * 3, we possibly now have 7 * 3:

8
	Eb3-26	Eb3-27	Eb3-28
	17 (59)	18 (60)	19 (61)
9
	Eb3-29	Eb3-30	Eb3-31
	20 (62)	21 (63)	22 (64)
10
	Eb3-32	Eb3-33	Eb3-34
	23 (65)	24 (66)	25 (67)

	Eb3-35	Eb3-36	Eb3-37
	26 (68)	27 (69)	28 (70)

	Eb3-38	Eb4-1
	29 (71)	30 (72)

Counting from the beginning of the calendar we have Rei at number 37 (= 36 + 1) respectively at 53 (= 52 + 1), a sign that we must not loose the thread of counting form the beginning.

In the 8th period there are signs of reversal in the glyphs. All three series of numbers tell us so too: 17, 18, 19 (beyond number 16 at Eb3-16 - with maro) reappear as 17, 18, 19 in the ordinal numbers counted from Eb3-10; and 59, 60, 61 may allude to the end of a double month period, while 26, 27, 28 may allude to the end of a sunlit moon period.

With a new glyph line (Eb4) and with Metoro's sudden reversal of kiore - henua into henua - kiore a new season probably starts at Eb4-1.

5 * 72 = 360.

Counting from the beginning of the calendar (respectively from the beginning of line Eb3 and from the beginning of line Eb4) we can compare:

5
	Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3	Eb3-4	Eb3-5
	34 (70)	35 (71)	36 (72)	37 (73)	38 (74)
18
	Eb5-4	Eb5-5	Eb5-6	Eb5-7	Eb5-8
	117 (153)	118 (154)	119 (155)	120 (156)	121 (157)
	84	85	86	87	88
	46	47	48	49	50

84 (the ordinal number counted from Eb3-1 - the tagata glyph with incomplete elbow ornament) probably indicates that the two tagata glyphs belong together. Likewise, of course, Eb5-5 is 84 glyphs ahead of Eb3-2 etc.

Comparing Eb2-27 and the other glyphs immediately before Eb3-1 with those before Eb5-4 we find no similarity. The same goes for a comparison between the glyphs following Eb3-5 with those following Eb5-8.

There are 12 periods between (short count) period 5 and period 18, which (together with the similarities between the glyphs and number 84) rather securely can be interpreted as the summer 'year'.

84 / 12 = 7 and each of the 12 periods, therefore, could be representing a week. On the other hand, that would give too short a season for the summer 'year', I think. 180 / 12 = 15.

The number of glyphs in lines Eb1 and Eb2 are 42 + 27 = 69, while we have (see at top above) counted from the beginning of the calendar at Eb1-37.

Numbers within parenthesis are ordinal numbers counted from the beginning of side b.

The calendar begins after 36 glyphs. Eb1 and Eb4 both contain 42 glyphs.