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TRANSLATIONS
The pages in the glyph dictionary continue
with:
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So far
evidence has pointed at vae possibly meaning 'going
away'. Initially the question was raised: Does vae mean
'full stop' or 'go ahead'? The answer may be an intermediate 'go away',
not a stop but moving (although not ahead).
Aa1-15 and Bb12-26 are located at the end of text cycles which tell about how the old year is at its end. The
alternative 'go ahead' (as when Ure Honu found the skull
of king Hotu Matua) is therefore eliminated.
It is significant
to find vae close after pure ('empty shell'):
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Aa5-68 |
Aa5-69 |
Aa5-70 |
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Aa5-71 |
Aa5-72 |
Aa5-73 |
The other side
of the tablet has a similar sequence:
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Ab7-79 |
Ab7-80 |
Ab7-81 |
Ab7-82 |
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Ab7-83 |
Ab7-84 |
Ab8-1 |
Side a of
Tahua probably describes summer and side b presumably
winter. Ordinal numbers 5-72 and 7-84 for the ariki glyphs
(Aa5-72 and Ab7-84) are clues to be interpreted with that in
mind. At winter solstice, we can infer, there are 365 - 360 = 5 'dark
days', and 72 can be read as twice 360, a coming
together of two years.
84 suggests 3 *
28 or three months, a lunar measure. In Ab7-82 there is a
little moon sign. The bottom part of Ab7-84 can also be
read as a moon sign, a sign of a 'dead (upside down) canoe'. Moon close to the horizon
always looks as if riding right side up. The sign in
Ab7-84 is therefore a powerful signal of 'end' (for the moon).
We have seen earlier (at tara) that the last glyph in line
b8 also has ordinal number 84:
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25 |
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14 |
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Ab8-42 |
Ab8-43 |
Ab8-69 |
Ab8-84 |
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42 = 26 + 16 |
26 |
16 |
Relevant in
determining a connection between moon and number 84 is also the found
84-glyph differences between the 'moon mauga' and its
'antipode' Eb3-8:
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40 |
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40 |
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Eb3-8 |
Eb4-11 |
Eb4-12 |
Eb5-11 |
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42 |
43 |
84 |
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40 |
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40 |
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Eb5-11 |
Eb6-17 |
Eb6-18 |
Eb3-8 |
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84 |
125 |
126 |
167 (1) |
B and R
have glyph sequences
parallel with Aa5-68--73.
Both on side a
and side b of Tahua are riddles embedded, which when
solved give the solution 6 * 84.
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We can deduce that probably the little 'eye' at the
knee of vae in Bb8-36 indicates the same phenomenon as
the little 'eye' in the ariki glyphs (Aa5-72 and Ab7-84).
Furthermore,
choosing between which of the two alternative glyph sequences in
A the text in B resembles most, the decision must be that on side a.
Hatchmarks are on the peculiar glyphs (rona)
Aa5-68 and Bb8-33 but not on Ab7-79. 36 in Bb8-36 implies that
it is the
sun who is leaving (after 360 days). Moon (side b on Tahua) has
no connection with number 36.
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The parallel in R is somewhat more difficult to find. Withouth
the glyphs arriving immediately earlier it would indeed be most
difficult. In A there is a double representation of what in R is
only one set (Ra1-115--118):
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Ra1-114 |
Ra1-115 |
Ra1-116 |
Ra1-117 |
Ra1-118 |
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Aa5-57 |
Aa5-57 |
Aa5-58 |
Aa5-59 |
Aa5-60 |
Aa5-61 |
Aa5-62 |
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Aa5-63 |
Aa5-64 |
Aa5-64 |
Aa5-65 |
Aa5-66 |
Aa5-67 |
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Ra1-119 |
Ra1-120 |
Ra1-121 |
Ra1-122 |
Ra1-201 |
Ra1-202 |
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Bb8-33 |
Bb8-34 |
Bb8-35 |
Aa5-71 |
Aa5-72 |
Aa5-73 |
To make comparisons more easy I have fetched the first three
glyphs from B and the last three from A.
We should notice how pure in A and B is another glyph type
(haga rave) in R - there are no pure glyphs in R.
The strange glyph Ra1-119 may be damaged. But it could also have been
drawn as we see it - to emphasize its 'ghostly
character'. The glyph type in A and B has been labelled rona
by me, because Metoro used that word a few times.
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Rona
Figure made of wood, or stone, or
painted, representing a bird, a birdman, a lizard, etc.
Vanaga.
Drawing, traction. Pau.: ronarona,
to pull one another about. Churchill.
While the rongorongo signs (rona)
are generally 'carved out, incised' (motu), ta
implies an incision ('cutting, beating') as well as the
process of applying signs to the surface with the aid of
a dye ... Barthel 2. |
An artificial figure ('figure made of wood' etc) is no real
person.
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glyphs |
line |
glyphs |
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a1 |
90 |
b1 |
82 |
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a2 |
85 |
b2 |
85 |
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a3 |
76 |
b3 |
77 |
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a4 |
82 |
b4 |
80 |
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a5 |
83 |
b5 |
80 |
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a6 |
84 |
b6 |
92 |
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a7 |
85 |
b7 |
84 |
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a8 |
85 |
b8 |
84 |
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sum |
670 |
sum |
664 |
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red numbers |
504 |
red numbers |
504 |
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difference |
166 |
difference |
160 |
504 = 6 * 84 = 12 * 42 = 24 * 21 =
18 * 28,
presumably a combination of 18(0) for the summer half year (when
sun is 'present') and 28 for the number of nights in the month
when sun light is seen reflected on the moon.
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166 + 160 = 326 = 2 * 163 (a prime number).
What does it mean?
The 'moon mauga' cycle, twice 84 =
168, is a number which the Maya indians used
(I have just learnt by reading 'Maya
Cosmos'):
"For help in figuring out how
the zodiac works, I went to David Kelley's
Deciphering the Maya Script. He had
noticed that there are distance numbers of
168 days between each of the pictures [in a
zodiac in the Paris Codex].
These intervals served to
place the constellations on opposite sides
of the sky rather than right next to each
other."
I never doubted the 'reality' of 168 as an
important number (being 6 * 28), but it is a
relief to find it to be more than number
mysticism.
Numbers carry no weight in our society. Not
even in the index of 'Maya Cosmos' are there
any numbers. I cannot search there for 168 in
order to find the pages where it is
mentioned. I have to read on and hope to get
some more information. There is a picture,
though, accompanying the cited text:
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