TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

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The 3 viri glyphs in P are arranged close together in a pattern which suggests a final and 4th member of the group, viz. a glyph (Pb9-33) which I will call te pito (the navel) - earlier mentioned in connection with hakaturou:


Pb9-21	Pb9-22	Pb9-23

Pb9-24	Pb9-25	Pb9-26	Pb9-27	Pb9-28

Pb9-29	Pb9-30	Pb9-31	Pb9-32	Pb9-33

Pb9-21 is different (drawn thicker) than the other two. We will take that as a sign of priority, and counting will therefore be done from Pb9-21 (in spite of the 9-29 in Pb9-29).

With Pb9-21 as number 1 te pito will be number 13, possibly an allusion to 13 * 28 = 364.

In K there are also 3 viri glyphs, redmarked below:

Ka2-6 -- Ka2-22	17	*81 = 9 9**
Ka3	21
Ka4	16
Ka5	14
Kb1-1 -- Kb1-13	13
Kb1-14	1	*48	82 = 2 41
*Kb1-15 -- Kb1-22**	*8
Kb2	*18
Kb3	16
Kb4-1 -- Kb4-5	5
Kb4-6	1	*34
Kb4-7 -- Kb4-19	13
Kb5	*20
Ka1	*24	*29
Ka2-1 -- Ka2-4	4
Ka2-5	1
sum	*192

If viri are dark equivalents of Rei, then Kb1-14 and Kb4-6 could mark the beginnings of two seasons in the 2nd half of the year. A third 'dark' season, beyond new year, is then marked at its end by a viri in the 29th position. During the 1st half of the year viri come at the end, during the 2nd half of the year viri come first.

81 glyphs in the 1st half of the year is balanced by 82 in the 2nd half, while the 3rd viri cuts off the 1st line of the K text from the domain of the Rei glyphs:


Ka2-1	Ka2-2	Ka2-3	Ka2-4	Ka2-5

Ka2-6	Ka2-7	Ka2-8	Ka2-9	Ka2-10

If there is any resemblance at all between the 3 viri in K and the 3 viri in P, my guess is that the 3rd and last ones (Ka2-5 respectively Pb9-29) mark the season of 'transformation' from the old year to the new. Pb9-23 and Pb9-26 are similar, while the corresponding Pb9-32 has no 'person' at right:


Pb9-21	Pb9-22	Pb9-23

Pb9-24	Pb9-25	Pb9-26	Pb9-27	Pb9-28

Pb9-29	Pb9-30	Pb9-31	Pb9-32	Pb9-33

The missing 'person' is in a ghostly land (Pb9-33), where only his nut head is hibernating.

To continue with the comparisons between P and K: The 1st viri (Pb9-21) would then correspond to the 1st viri in K (Kb1-14):

16
	Kb1-7	Kb1-8	Kb1-9	Kb1-10
	44	45	46	47
					5 mutilated glyphs follow here
	Kb1-11	Kb1-12	Kb1-13	Kb1-14	5 mutilated glyphs follow here
	48	49	50	51	52-56

In Pb9-23 we can see a hakaturou at right, with its 'head' turned backwards (a sign of a season which has passed away), while in Pb9-26 a barren Y hand illustrates the 'winter' season.

In K, on the contrary, Kb1-14 is not 'looking back'. It follows Kb1-13 with 'sails' at right. But the number of the period (16) indicates the end of the light season (of the moon). Likewise Kb4-6 is 'backward looking' by reason of 28, the last night when moon is visible:

28
	Kb4-6	Kb4-7	Kb4-8	Kb4-9
	99	100	101	102

Although the 3 viri glyphs in P are arranged close together in the 9th glyph line on side b it is probable that they refer to the same seasons as those in K:

				end of the 1st half year
Pb9-21	Pb9-23		Kb1-14
				end of the 2nd half year
Pb9-24	Pb9-26		Kb4-6
				end of the whole year
Pb9-29	Pb9-32	Pb9-33	Ka2-5

The period numbers 16 and 28 in K allude to the last nights of growing respectively descending moon, and the calendar ends with period 29, which indicates a structure according to the phases of the moon rather than according to the path of the sun. In P the ordinal numbers in Pb9-24 and Pb9-26 suggest the sun, yet the last viri has ordinal number 29. And the first viri has ordinal number 21 = 3 * 7 (as if three weeks - measurements connected with the moon). The cycles of sun and moon seem to be intertwined and described together.