TRANSLATIONS
There ought to be 16 hau tea on side b, because it is the number for
the moon which corresponds to 12 for the sun (and because 28 should be the
sum). I guess the missing one is Ab1-2:
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Ab1-2 |
Its ordinal number is 672 = 4 * 168 = 24 * 28. I decide to add a note to
that effect:
The result of the investigation above lacks one glyph, because
there ought to be 16
hau
tea
on side b (the number for the moon corresponding to 12 for the
sun), which would raise the total from 27 to the more acceptable
28.
The missing hau tea is
probably Ab1-2:
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Ab1-2 |
672 = 4
* 168 = 24 * 28 |
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Next page:
"The name of the district or section of country over which
Olopana is to have ruled in Kahiki was in Hawaiian
Moa-ula-nui-akea. Analyzing this word, it consists of one appellative,
Moa, and three adjectives or epithets, ula, nui,
akea, 'red, great, open, or wide-spreading' ..." (Fornander)
The last summary page:
The hau tea
glyph type is a stylized picture of the horizon in the east with a
sun 'eye' (at right in the glyph) together with the horizon in the west
(at left in the glyph), connected by (in the north) the 'roof of the
sky' with vertex at noon:
Sky 'roof', sun 'eye', and the
two horizons where sun will rise and go down, are connected, and in between is a
rectangular area in which Easter Island lies.
In the middle of the glyph a third vertical line
is drawn as a theoretical construct (not real, not connected with the rest of
the glyph).
It is the imagined line
between Vinapu and Anakena, a line reaching from the south pole to
the north pole, a line for 'generating fire'. It is a line to induce a new 'sun' (year) in
midwinter after the old one has 'gone out' (cfr the glyph type vae and
also how the Polynesians used a 'fire plow' for creating new fire).
The meaning of hau tea
is basically 'day light', the kind of light which during summer magically makes
everything grow.
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I couldn't find any picture of a fire plow in Wikipedia, but by
'coincidence' (I am beginning to doubt) I was rewarded otherwise:
Haumea is a dwarf planet
in the Kuiper belt one-third the mass of Pluto. It was discovered in 2004 by
a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory in the
United States, and in 2005 by a team headed by J. L. Ortiz at the Sierra
Nevada Observatory in Spain, though the latter claim has been contested.
On September 17, 2008, it was accepted as a dwarf planet by
the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and named after Haumea,
the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth. Haumea's extreme elongation makes
it unique among known trans-Neptunian objects. Although its shape has not
been directly observed, calculations from its light curve suggest it is an
ellipsoid, with its greatest axis twice as long as its shortest.
Nonetheless, its gravity is believed sufficient for it to have relaxed into
hydrostatic equilibrium, thereby meeting the definition of a dwarf planet.
This elongation, along with its unusually rapid rotation, high density, and
high albedo (due to a surface of crystalline water ice), are thought to be
the results of a giant collision, which left Haumea the largest
member of a collisional family that includes several large TNOs and its two
known moons ...
The planet's two
moons were named after Haumea's
daughters: Hi'iaka, after the Hawaiian
goddess said to have born from the mouth of
Haumea, and Namaka, after the water
spirit said to have been born from Haumea's
body ...
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