TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

In principle we now ought to continue to investigate where the viri glyphs are located in all the rongorongo texts, but from practical reasons that is not possible - it takes too much time and it will be a burder for the reader. A, E, G, and K ought to be enough. G remains:

In G there are only two viri glyphs (without additional signs), but the parallel with K makes it possible to add Ga1-26 with a high degree of confidence:


Ga1-26	Ga5-11	Ga7-1


Ga1-22	Ga1-23	Ga1-24	Ga1-25	Ga1-26		Ga1-27	Ga1-28

Ka2-1	Ka2-2	Ka2-3	Ka2-4	Ka2-5	Ka2-6	Ka2-7	Ka2-8

The other two viri (Ga5-11 and Ga7-1) are fully parallel with the other two viri in K (Kb1-14 and Kb4-6).

If Ga1-26 is a compound between viri and nuku, then - perhaps - also Gb1-6 should be added to the small viri group of G:


Ga1-26

viri	nuku


Ga8-26	Gb1-1	Gb1-2	Gb1-3	Gb1-4

Gb1-5	Gb1-6	Gb1-7

Gb1-8	Gb1-9	Gb1-10	Gb1-11	Gb1-12

Gb1-6 may be, so to say, the opposite fusion between viri and nuku - viri (with 18 'feathers') at the top and nuku at bottom instead of the other way around. In Gb1-7 the 'head' of nuku appears upside down.

No parallel in K exists from Ga7-33 and forward, which could have confirmed the guess of viri being the top part of Gb1-6. Can the guess be confirmed by counting glyphs?

In Gb1-6 the 'head' of nuku has been taken off. The island is renewing itself.

Nuku

1. Pau.: nuka, crowd, throng. Ta.: nuú, army, fleet. Mg.: nuku, a host, army. 2. Mgv.: nuku, land, country, place. Sa.: nu'u, district, territory, island. Churchill.

In Ga1-26 the 'legs' of nuku are converted into viri 'boughs' and bent upwards. The 'knees' have disappeared. Ga1-26 is probably related in meaning to Kb4-7 and Kb5-301:


Ga1-26	Kb4-7	Kb5-301

The link 'counting glyphs' leads to the following pages:

We have earlier listed 136 glyphs which may constitute a calendar - beyond the 31st period uncertainty starts to accumulate:

G calendar
period no.	number of glyphs
1, 2, 3	8 + 4 + 7 = 19	35	19
4, 5, 6	3 + 2 + 3 = 8		27
7, 8, 9	4 + 2 + 2 = 8		35
10, 11, 12	2 + 3 + 2 = 7	35	42
13, 14, 15	4 + 3 + 5 = 12		54
16, 17, 18	3 + 6 + 7 = 16		70
19, 20, 21	5 + 8 + 5 = 18	30	88
22, 23, 24	4 + 3 + 5 = 12	30	100
25, 26, 27	2 + 2 + 3 = 7	30	107
28, 29, 30	3 + 3 + 4 = 10		117
31, 32, 33	6 + 4 + 3 = 13		130
34, 0	3 + 3 = 6	6	136

Furthermore, as an investigation into the parallel text of K has demonstrated, the calendar probably begins already at the beginning of the G text (at Ga1-1). We therefore need to extend the table above, before we count distances between viri glyphs.

17 numbers are redmarked, 18 are not, a result which appears to be random. On the other hand, the odd and even distribution in the number of glyphs per glyph line do follow a pattern:

There are 229 + 242 = 471 glyphs in the G text, distributed in the lines according to the table below:

a1	30	b1	26
a2	29	b2	35
a3	24	b3	30
a4	27	b4	33
a5	30	b5	29
a6	29	b6	28
a7	34	b7	31
a8	26	b8	30
sum	229	sum	242

The sum 471 is related to 314 (100π) by way of the formula 471 / 3 = 471 - 314 = 157 (a prime number). In other words: 471 = 150 % of 314.

Counting (based on the ordinal numbers from Ga1-1) reveals how 29 seems to govern the location of viri glyphs also in G:

	94		48
Ga1-26		Ga5-11		Ga7-1
26		121		170
*145 = 5 29**

Considering Gb1-6, with ordinal number 235 = 5 * 47 = 5 * (29 +18), we first will discover how it is located next to the middle of the whole text of G:


Gb1-6	Gb1-7	Gb1-8
235	236	237

Gb1-7 is the central glyph, 471 = 2 * 235 +1.

The pattern is - as we have seen earlier - that odd-numbered glyph lines should have an even number of glyphs and the reverse. In G the rule is broken (redmarked numbers in the table above, but not in the glyph dictionary) in the last line on side a and in the second half of the glyph lines on side b. When the rule is broken the numbers are heavy with meaning (26, 28, 29, 30, 31).

Adding the redmarked glyph numbers we reach 144 (= 12 * 12). The rest (blue) sum up to the remainder 471 - 144 = 327 (= 3 * 109). If we deduct 3 for the viri glyphs, we will have 324 = 9 * 36 = 314 + 10.

Gb1-6 - halfway around the tablet - maybe represents midsummer, the head is off when the top is past.

Maybe the idea is that the head is up over the sky roof?

'Two men came to a hole in the sky. One asked the other to lift him up. If only he would do so, then he in turn would lend him a hand. His comrade lifted him up, but hardly was he up when he shouted for joy, forgot his comrade and ran into heaven ...'

In a way he is loosing his head.

9 + 9 = 18 'feathers' may represent the 'noon' heat. Standing high is the opposite of sinking low, which we can see in Ga1-26:


Ga1-26	Kb4-7	Kb5-301

Even the 'gnomon' (Kb4-7) is in the 'sinking low' position. The very long 'neck' cannot change the fact that neither torso nor legs are visible.

From winter solstice (Ga1-26) to summer solstice (Gb1-6) the measure is 235 - 26 = 209 glyphs one way and 471 - 209 = 262 glyphs the other way around the text:

	*208 = 8 26**		*261 = 9 29**
Ga1-26	*208 = 8 26**	Gb1-6	*261 = 9 29**	Ga1-26

The example illustrates how only 'in between' is counted. It casts doubt on our earlier measurement in Tahua:

	59		*520 = 20 26**
Aa8-26	59	Ab1-1	*520 = 20 26**	Ab7-26
-	*580 = 20 29**			-

	*752 = 16 47**
Ab7-26		Aa8-26
*754 = 26 29**

Maybe the new (red) numbers are more important than the multiples of 29. (59 is a prime number, but viri in Aa8-26 is also drawn with a strangely cut off top 'tail'.)

On the other hand we could equally well turn the question around and reinterpret the measurements in G:

	*208 = 8 26**		*261 = 9 29**
Ga1-26		Gb1-6		Ga1-26
*210 = 5 42 = 6 * 35 = 7 * 30**			*262 = 2 131**

262 does not seem meaningful, but Ga1-26 has already been used in 210. Therefore, we probably should 'read':

	*208 = 8 26**		*261 = 9 29**
Ga1-26		Gb1-6
*210 = 5 42 = 6 * 35 = 7 * 30**
*471 = 150 % 314 = 1 + 10 * 47**

Not only is 752 = 16 * 47 but we have also 29 + 18 = 47, as when '235 = 5 * 47 = 5 * (29 +18)'.

Gb1-6 does belong to the viri-group (Ga1-26, Ga5-11 and Ga7-1):

	94		48
Ga1-26		Ga5-11		Ga7-1
26		121		170
*145 = 5 29**

	*261 = 9 29**
Gb1-6		Ga1-26
235		26

261 we recognize from the ordinal number of the 'wormhole' glyph between Ea8-4 and Ea8-101.

145 + 261 = 406 = 14 * 29. Possibly the glyphs from Gb1-7 to Ga7-1 (notice the reversed ordinal numbers) describe 14 months.

If we think of the distance from Gb1-6 to Ga1-26 as representing the 2nd half of the year, then 9 * 29 = 261 should represent half a year. 14 / 9 * 180 days = 280 days (in other words 10 months with 28 moonlit nights).

471 - 406 = 65 glyphs remain. 65 / 471 * 364 = ca 50 nights (between Ga7-1 and Gb1-6, i.e. before midsummer).

Next page (the final one from 'counting glyphs'):

Although Gb1-6 does belong to the viri-group it is a special variant incorporating also other signs. It can be compared with Ga1-26, whích evidently represents its opposite not only in visual cues but also numerically:

	*208 = 8 26**		*261 = 9 29**
Ga1-26		Gb1-6
26		235
*210 = 5 42 = 6 * 35 = 7 * 30**

Together Ga1-26 and Gb1-6 measure out not only 9 * 29 but also other numerical qualities. 235 is equal to 5 * (29 +18) possibly to indicate that half of the text pertains to the dark half of the year (29) and the other half to the light (180).

261 is not only 9 * 29 but also = 1 + 10 * 26, just as 471 = 1 + 10 * 47, where 47 = 29 + 18.

We can compare Ga1-26 with the 'gnomon' glyph in K and with the even more similar Kb5-301 (which glyphs do not, however, have viri 'feet'):


Ga1-26	Kb4-7	Kb5-301

The torso and legs are invisible, as if the 'person' has sunk very low beyond the horizon. Probably this is a visual representation of midwinter.

Gb1-6, on the other hand, is standing high, with 9 + 9 = 18 'feathers' (meaning 'fire', i.e. light and heat) at the top end. Probably Gb1-6 represents midsummer.

Side a covers the 1st half of the year and side b the 2nd half. That is the impression we get.

Slowly we are becoming aware of how the pieces of the number puzzles are so intrinsically woven together into a beautiful map (mat) that no single piece can be changed without bringing havoc to it all.

I think there cannot be very many such 'mats' in store for us. They are based on nature and there is only one nature. From different perspectives this single nature can give rise to a few different 'mats', but not many.

Furthermore, probably only one 'mat' can exist in a single culture (if it is sheltered from other cultures). Our difficulty will instead be to realize how many aspects there are in what we at first perceive only from a single view.