TRANSLATIONS
A sense of urgency makes me investigate all nooks and crannies - it feels as if it is now or never. On the other hand we must move on. Next page in the chain of pages from 'Excursion':
The two 'fists' possibly recur in the first glyphs in the day calendars:
In Aa1-16 there are 'flowery fingers of light', as in the 12th kuhane station Roto Iri Are - 'rosy fingers' (of seaweed) on the surface of the sea - immediately before summer. The other three texts have quite other allusions - 'dead' Y-branches instead. In H/P/Q early morning comes after the night calendar, while in A the night calendar comes after the day calendar. The two 'fists' could refer to the two half-years (or in general the wished for pairs of seasons). In Ga5-11 and Ga7-1 a pair of viri glyphs may signify the 2nd half-year (or in general the 2nd of a pair of seasons):
In K too 3 viri appear in the pattern 1 + 2 (1 on side a and 2 on side b):
The two pare in P have the opposite pairing: 2 + 1 = 3 'fists':
While pare has the quality of 'eyes' viri has the quality of absence of 'eyes'. In P too the 3 viri appear in the pattern 1 + 2 (1 fat followed by 2 of normal thickness):
It is therefore quite in order to see the same phenomenon also in S:
Possibly we see two 'fists' in Sa1-219 and one only in Sa1-226. In Sa1-223 the upper 'fist' in Sa1-219 maybe is leaving, leaving behind the lower one in Sa1-226. Wing down in Sa1-223 is a wing up in Sa1-226. In Sa1-225 summer could be at the top with winter at bottom. Its ordinal number (29) indicates how the old 'light' has been extinguished and the new one (top) has arrived. If so, then the top end is not the summer but the whole new year, divided into a pair of half-years. In Sa1-224 we can see the immediately preceding phase: The new year is not yet there - instead night rules, and at the bottom end the old fire is extinguished. In Sa1-225, therefore, the old year at bottom has been revived - it is at the base of the new life, living on in a new generation. The nut gives life. In Sa1-222 the head of the old cock is drawn as if to allude to a gagana glyph where one of the 'eyes' has burst open:
In Ga1-18 it is still intact, in Gb7-18 the bottom end seems to be procreative, while in Gb8-7 the 'fruit' emerges from the top end. Gb8-7 furthermore seems to illustrate how the old 'nut' lives on at the bottom of the new life (top) - as imagined in Sa1-225. The glyph is complex, though, because from the 'fruit' emerges a sky without any light, it seems. |