TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The idea to work on is that in the cyclic order of limb gestures 'eating' comes before 'waving goodbye' and in the last phase 'drinking':


Ha5-56	rima	vae
spring	summer	winter

This is a simplified description, though. Both hands are held high at the solstices, it seems:

summer solstice		winter solstice

Ka5-6	Ka5-11	Kb4-4

Ga4-9	Ga4-14	Ga6-28

The sequence between the two first ('eating' and 'waving goodbye') is based on the order of the glyphs in the daylight calendar, while vae is presumed to be the last phase mainly due to the explanations of Ogotemmêli. Though some influence from Aa1-15 cannot be denied:

There are no vae glyphs in the Mamari moon calendar - and we now concentrate only on the glyph type vae, ignoring other glyphs which show legs in their proper places. Neither are there any vae glyphs in the calendars for the week (H and P), nor in the calendars for the daylight and night (A, H, P, Q), nor in the calendars for the year (E, G, and K).

Yet, we have seen vae glyphs. The first instance was when niu glyphs were discussed:


Aa1-13	Aa1-14	Aa1-15

... The intended meaning of the sequence may be to bring to mind the story about 'killing' the old fire and how a new fire then is alighted, corresponding to the new year sun. Here niu would then correspond to the first phase of the story - when the old fire has been stamped out and only the ghost of it remains at the top. The bottom part is like a sack into which the still red hot embers of the old fire have been put. Aa1-13 marks the 'dawn' of a new year. The 3 glyphs arrive after 12 glyphs referring to the solar year ...

A new fire - we have learnt - is, though, not represented by vae, but by a special kind of 'hand':


Ga2-24		Ga2-25		Ga2-26	Ga2-27

Ka3-12		Ka3-13		Ka3-14	Ka3-15
	5		16
Eb5-15		Eb5-21		Eb6-3	Eb6-4

The spirit of the 'old one waving goodbye' (Gas-24 etc) is 'incorporated' in a new generation. It was important for Ure Honu to get hold of the skull ('nut') of the old king.

Only in Eb5-21 can we see a leg.

There are legs in 'parallel' texts, though, presented at haú in the glyph dictionary:

In addition to the parallel glyphs in K we must first notice the parallel glyphs in the 24th period of the Keiti calendar:

0
0	Ga2-20	Ga2-21	Ga2-22	Ga2-23	Ga2-24	Ga2-25	Ga2-26
0
0	Ka3-8	Ka3-9	Ka3-10	Ka3-11	Ka3-12	Ka3-13	Ka3-14
24	Here 7 glyphs in line b5 seem to refer to the end of the previous year.
					Eb6-1	Eb6-2	Eb6-3

	Eb6-4	Eb6-5	Eb6-6	Eb6-7	Eb6-8

	Eb6-9	Eb6-10	Eb6-11	Eb6-12	Eb6-13	Eb6-14	Eb6-15
					Eb6-9 is a reversal of the more normally designed Eb6-16.
	Eb6-16	Eb6-17	Eb6-18	Eb6-19

Then the other more or less obvious parallel texts must be documented too:


Ra5-203	Ra5-204	Ra5-205	Ra5-206	Ra5-207	Ra5-208	Ra5-209
...
				Nb3-101	Nb3-102	Nb3-103			Nb3-104

Bb12-13	Bb12-14	Bb12-15		Bb12-16	Bb12-17			Bb12-18

Hb12-33	Hb12-34	Hb12-35	Hb12-36	Hb12-37	Hb12-38		Hb12-39
							...
Ma2-201	Ma2-202	Ma2-203		Ma2-204	Ma2-205

The texts cannot be truly 'parallel' because there is no concluding (beginning) Rei following the 'new fire' glyphs (Ra5-209 etc).

Nb3-101 is a true vae glyph and it appears before the 'fire generators' (Nb3-103--104):

Nb3-101

Nb3-102

Nb3-103

Nb3-104

Likewise vae is arriving earlier in the parallel Ra5-207--209:


Ra5-207	Ra5-208	Ra5-209

Obviously Ra5-207 is compounded from haú and vae. The order between vae, toga and 'fish-hand' seems to be a fixed one. If we compare with the new year fire generation process, though, the resemblance is halting:


Ga2-22	Ga2-23	Ga2-24	Ga2-25	Ga2-26

Ka3-10	Ka3-11	Ka3-12	Ka3-13	Ka3-14

Toga in Nb3-102 and Ra5-208 carry 'dry branches', while in Ga2-24 and Ka3-12 there is 'fire', and the preceding haú glyphs have no 'toes', and fishes (without hands) come earlier - not later.

B and H have texts which are closer to G and K than to N and R, because they have normal fishes earlier. Yet the toga have no 'fire':


Bb12-13	Bb12-14	Bb12-15		Bb12-16	Bb12-17	Bb12-18

Hb12-33	Hb12-34	Hb12-35	Hb12-36	Hb12-37	Hb12-38		Hb12-39

The circular haú relate B and H to M:


Ma2-201	Ma2-202	Ma2-203	Ma2-204	Ma2-205

The 'running man with hand waving goodbye' connects M with not only B and H but also with E and N:


Ma2-205	Bb12-17	Hb12-38	Hb12-39	Eb6-13	Nb3-103

This glyph type is in E and M close to haú and, it appears, equivalent (in some way) with toga + 'hand waving goodbye':


Eb6-9	Eb6-10	Eb6-11	Eb6-12	Eb6-13

Ma2-201	Ma2-202	Ma2-203	Ma2-204	Ma2-205

Ga2-20	Ga2-21	Ga2-22	Ga2-23	Ga2-24

Ka3-8	Ka3-9	Ka3-10	Ka3-11	Ka3-12

The person running away could represent the old year, though hardly the 'spirit' of the old year. On the contrary - in the text of E ihe tau is reversed. The 'spirit' phase illustrated by glyphs drawn with incomplete border lines maybe not applies to the open spaces between fingers and toes.