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TRANSLATIONS
From Ab1-21 forward there is no internal parallel until we reach Ab1-44:
Here is a counterdemonstration of my earlier announcement that the internal parallels always occur only at opposite sides in Tahua. In my mind, though, there is a difference between parallel sequences of glyphs on one hand and repetitions of glyphs within a larger sequence on the other. The pattern here is 8 + 9 + 9 = 26 which, though, probably is not enough to explain why Ab1-51 is only one glyph while in Ab1-62--63 respective Ab1-77--78 we have two. This is not the place to discuss the 26 glyphs. We are not interested, for the moment, in details. Instead we seek number patterns. From Ab1-51 up to Ab1-55 and from Ab1-63 up to Ab1-70 we have respectively 4 and 7 glyphs (and we immediately think: 4 * 7 = 28). Given that it all begins with Ab1-44 we presumably should continue after Ab1-78 with a 4th 'repetition':
The patterns in the glyphs convey similar meanings. But it was the numbers which made me propose the continuation:
In Ab2-3 we see 5 internal wedge marks, the same pattern we once discovered close to winter solstice (Ga7-3 and Kb4-8):
In Ab1-31 we have the left part of Ab2-3:
The distance in glyphs from Ab1-31 up to and including the last glyph in line b1 is 82 - 30 = 52, and I count 52 * 7 = 364. Maybe the 2 glyphs Ab2-1--2 mark the final of the old year and maybe Ab2-3 represents the darkness in between the solar years (in the same way as Ga7-3 and Kb4-8). The inserted sequences (according to my structure earlier above) look like this:
Other patterns are immediately observed, for instance one which is initated already at Ab1-3:
GD17 (honu) with arms drawn as parts of the body may be picked out from the total (43 glyphs), and I find 23 such glyphs (red-marked below):
I have already earlier eliminated 62 - 43 = 19 GD17-glyphs where I cannot see any arms. Of the 43 which remain 19 have separate arms and 23 have arms as parts of the body. Aa5-49 (geen-marked) has one arm as part of the body and the other arm a separate part. After a further elimination of the 16 following glyphs we have a core of 7 simple honu left:
4 have legs, 3 have not. 6 are seen en face, 1 has its head seen sideways. Possibly we should add 2 more with head sideways to reach:
Perhaps those with legs are more fully grown. Or maybe they are immovable, like pillars keeping the sky up? Yet another structure is defined by Ab1-35 and Ab1-40:
The group of three red-marked henua we once imagined to be signs of 'waning' (lesser and lesser light) ... If we turn Aa5-4 around 90º counterclockwise we can see that henua is thinner at right (forward in time), which fact together with the rest of the signs makes it certain that what we have arrived at is summer solstice ... The consequence ought to be that the two blue-marked henua after a 90º counterclockwise rotation exhibit increasing light ('waxing' sun). Perhaps we should group together like this:
Ab1-37, with one ordinary GD45 (ihe tau) and one reversed, is a powerful mark - the reversed GD45 appear very seldom. In Mamari we have, though, a similar message:
In Keiti we find another set of glyphs with a reversed GD45:
This sequence, furthermore, has many parallels in other texts (although without any reversed GD45). |
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