TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The first counting naturally should be done from the beginning of the text to Pb9-21 and from there to the end of the text:

	1011		11		132
Pa1-1		Pb9-21		Pb9-33		Pb11-255
1		1013		1025		1158

The total number of glyphs in the text is 1158 and 145 of them are located beyond Pb9-21. 145 = 5 * 29, a fact agreeing with the suggestion that viri glyphs are related to number 29. In G too 145 glyphs were measured out by distances from viri:

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

Maybe 5 in 5 * 9 refers to the 5 dark nights between 365 and 360. If so, then the 29 glyphs following after Pb9-21 ought to represent those nights:


Pb9-33	Pb9-34	Pb9-35	Pb9-36	Pb9-37

Pb9-38	Pb9-39	Pb9-40	Pb9-41

Pb9-42	Pb9-43	Pb9-44	Pb9-45	Pb9-46

Pb9-47	Pb9-48	Pb9-49	Pb9-50

Then ought to follow a description of the birth of new year:


Pb10-1	Pb10-2	Pb10-3	Pb10-4	Pb10-5	Pb10-6

Pb10-7	Pb10-8	Pb10-9	Pb10-10	Pb10-11	Pb10-12

Pb10-7, with hakaturou being pushed forward, makes me remember Aa2-8 and Metoro's explanation about mahigo:


Aa2-1	Aa2-2	Aa2-3	Aa2-4	Aa2-5

Aa2-6	Aa2-7	Aa2-8	Aa2-9	Aa2-10

... The beginning of line a2, with parallels in H/P/Q, has 8 glyphs ending with Aa2-8 which clearly exhibits toko te ragi (GD32) - which Metoro this time calls mahigo (child):

"Les Mahigo (enfants) et les petites calebasses sont ici réunis. Dans leurs prières, en demandant à Makémaké de petits calebasses, c'étaient surtout des enfants qu'ils désignaient par ce mot." (Jaussen according to Barthel)

... The Dogon peoples saw the sun as a calabash: '... In the upper part of the façade, as a pendant to the calabash on the right which represents the sun, it is a drawing of the moon, either full or as a crescent. This is a reminder, on the left-hand side, of the celestial regions ...'

In Aa2-9 is a version of te pito, and in Aa2-10 is the 'recycling station'. Although the order is strange - Aa2-8 ought to arrive after Aa2-10 - we can recognize the parallel between Aa2-1--2 and Pb10-1--2 (with the same ordinal numbers):


Pb10-1	Pb10-2

Aa2-1	Aa2-2

In Pb10-1 a sort of gnomon is depicted - no body nor limbs - while in Aa2-1 the person is standing high. Pb10-1 is therefore in opposition to Aa2-1. The parallel is only superficial. When in Aa2-9 we observe a 'pito' with the 'sun head' outside and behind instead of inside it is a further 'proof' of the opposition:


Aa2-9	Pb9-33

A closer parallel between Aa2-1 etc maybe is offered on side a of P (and H/Q):


Aa2-2	Aa2-3	Aa2-7		Aa2-8

Pa6-27	Pa6-28	Pa6-29	Pa6-30	Pa6-31	Pa6-32

Pb10-2	Pb10-10	Pb10-1	Pb10-5	Pb10-7

A little sign of the moon is shown at left in Pa6-27, while in Pb10-10 (double-ten as if to show the definite exit of the sun) we can see 12 'feathers' hanging on 3 'threads'. The top of Pa6-29 presumably indicates full moon:


Ea2-13	Ea2-14	Ea2-15	Ea2-16	Ea2-17

Ea2-17 in turn is like Ga1-26 though with viri at the top instead of at bottom:

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

Maybe Ga1-26 is like the Maya maize god emerging from the old shell at new year: