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TRANSLATIONS
It would be of great value if the results from G could be applied when trying to understand the text in Tahua. Obviously both texts have the 'front' (spring) early on side a, and 320 - we just have discovered - may indicate the limit of growth in both texts:
Although the number of glyphs on the Tahua tablet is an even number (1,334) the length of the text does not necessarily have to be equal to the number of glyphs. Evidence to the contrary has been discussed earlier at different points. Here, once again, 100π is a number which comes to the surface. 314 possibly should be the number of Aa4-64 instead of the number of Aa4-63. The arguments: Rei - we have concluded - does not belong to the following season, it 'kicks it' (rei) into action. If 100π was used for marking the limit of half a cycle, then the next half of the cycle will begin with number 1 (instead of 315) at Aa4-64. Aa4-70 will be number 7, which once again (like 320 + 1, and the expected position of the '4th viri') says 'dark'. While the design of the hau tea obviously and forcefully says 'expanding light'. The ordinal numbers 4 * 70 = 280 (= 10 * 28) adds 'the last of it'. In Aa4-64 the product becomes 256, i.e. the 8th growth term (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 ...) if we begin with 2. If we begin with 1 it is the 9th term, which - we should conclude - is the correct way to count. Because - following the logic so far - the growth of light season is at Aa4-64 in the past (in Hiva - iva, 9). The 'black ball' hanging from the sky (ragi) is at left (in the past). 32 will be term number 6 (for the sun) instead of term number 5 (for 'fire'). Aa4-71 is a glyph of the type vae kore (no legs), which is interesting because that is the next glyph type to work with in the glyph dictionary. It is number 8 (counted from Aa4-64) and thinking in terms of weeks, it ought to be the beginning (as a little sun boy). The name vae kore would then be rather perfect - vae suggests the time when the old sun fire is 'going out' at the end of the year, and here we are in front of the blazing high summer fire. 1,334 - 314 = 1,020 = the number of glyphs beyond Aa4-63. 1,020 = 51 * 20. Does it mean we should add 20 glyphs to the number of glyphs on the tablet in order to reach the number of glyphs in the text? 1,334 + 20 = 1,354 which is rather close to 26 * 52 = 1,352. Adding 18 instead of 20 would leave a room for 2 outside the order glyphs. In G we have two firm points in time, not only midsummer (Te Pei) but also 12 * 29.5 = 354 (Hatinga Te Kohe). The 'coinage' is the lunar month (29.5 nights long) - 16 * 29.5 = 472. In A the 'coinage' apparently is 29 instead. 1,334 = 46 * 29. Te Pei is in G defined at 8 * 29.5 = 236 = half the cycle. A sign of 8 possibly occurs in Aa4-70 being the 8th and last 'expanding light' hau tea. 8 * 29 = 232 maybe could be used in A. If so, then we should count backwards from Aa4-70 (because the beginning must be later than at Aa1-1):
231 is close to 232, a sign we are on the right track. The end of line a1 and the beginning of line a2 suggest we cannot count Aa1-90 as a beginning:
Tagata in Aa2-1 indicates a fully grown season (at left in the text I presume). Haga rave in Aa2-2 suggests a place for anchor (for the old season). Maybe Aa1-90 is the 'ghost' of vae (the end of the old year). The conclusion becomes we must add also Aa4-71 to the season of 'growth' (otherwise we will not reach 232 = 8 * 29). The vae kore glyph is located - given our 'map' from G - at Te Pei. In Aa4-72, where a break (hatiga) occurs, the numbers say 8 * 36. As we remember from G there are different lengths of the year to calculate with, and presumably also A works with different years. One half year may be ending at Aa4-63 and another at Aa4-72. A month with 31 days can be detected by counting to the midpoint between the two conspicious pare:
4 * 59 (in the ordinal numbers) gives another length for the month, viz. 29.5. If we look forward, searching for 354, 360, 364, 365, 366, the result becomes:
Signs of hua (the reverse of hau) appear, but we should not read the text literally. It means the 'new generation' which just has begun. Cfr Aa2-7 and Aa4-63. In Aa4-78 the top part of henua shows the beginning of the 'long decline'. It generates a hua without 'feathers'. Aa4-75 is conspiciously located in the center between the 1st season in Aa4-73 and the second in Aa4-77. The ordinal numbers say 4 * 75 = 300 = 10 months à 30 days.
Once again vae kore, this time at the beginning of a glyph line. The distance between the first and the second vae kore is 334 - 322 = 12 glyphs. A double set (Aa4-79--82) says '2nd' (season). 330 + 331 + 332 + 333 = 1326 = 6 * 13 * 17 = 26 * 51. And we should remember 20 * 51 (earlier above) which equals 1,334 (the number of glyphs on Tahua) - 100π:
Adding 6 to 2346 we reach 2352 = 28 * 84, which seems to be a good result (84 = 3 * 28). 334 (at Aa5-1) = 2 * 168 - 2, and at Aa5-3 (the last of the twin glyphs) 336 = 2 * 168 = 12 * 28. A month with length 28 (moonlit) nights are here defined. Counting beyond line a4 as if Aa5-1--3 belonged to Aa4, we will reach Aa4-84 at Aa5-3. And 336 = 4 * 84 = 12 * 28. 354 (Hatinga Te Kohe) - 336 = 18. 12 * 29.5 = 354 and 12 * 28 = 336. Can we observe the end of 12 months à 28 moonlit nights in G? Let's look:
Yes, we can. The twin glyphs Gb4-13 and Gb4-14 should correspond to Aa5-2--3 (although not located exactly alike). We move on:
The 'old one' (the first half cycle) in Aa5-7 is leaving. Number 19 (death of sun) added to his proper location at 321 is a sign. Comparing with G we can establish contact:
6 'feathers' and a generative sign at right. Next follow glyphs which seem to deliver different messages in A and G:
I have redmarked only some of the interesting glyphs and more should be said. But we must leave this trail now. |
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