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TRANSLATIONS
So far I have at GD89 (pito) registered only these four glyphs:
Sun (or some other celestial body) is in the center, in A and C as a separate entity but in B and Y depicted inside. I have already suggested that the top part in Ab8-43 (consequently also in the other three glyphs) are upside down versions of what we see at the bottom of the 'birth' (GD56, hanau) glyphs:
The bottom members in hanau glyphs sometimes show feet, sometimes the peculiar 'snaky' forms which seems to be the norm in the pito glyphs. We note what presumably is a change of state from Aa4-55 to Aa4-61. One of the ears (cfr 'years') have disappeared and also the separate entity at mid bottom (the 2nd 'year'?) has been released. The 'snaky' arm (maybe representing the raw nature character of the 1st 'year') has developed into a 'barren' Y-form - after 'cooking' the movements of the 'snake' has stopped. The remaining (y)ear has a semi-circular form. It is on the right and forward side, i.e. represents present / future (because the left side reprents tu'a). Here I hesitate. Is it reasonable to call the 1st 'year' side of Aa4-61 (and of Aa4-55) tu'a? In an absolute (stationary) view tu'a should be the back side of the year, i.e. the 2nd half of the year. Glyphs appearing in the part of the text which describes the 2nd 'year' are 'inside' the tu'a phase. The left side of such glyphs may also be 'inside' the same phase, but suppose (as is the case with Aa4-61) that all glyphs at left in the text are 'outside' (describing the 1st 'year'). It then feels strange to call the left side of Aa4-61 tu'a. The semi-circular form surely must represent the land (in contrast to the sea). At midsummer (the point of 'cooking') land does not disappear. The land presumably exists between spring and autumn equinox. In Ab8-43 we can see an imbalance - the left bottom 'snake' is short, while the right one is correspondingly (?) long. This is certainly a sign. The bottom part of pito glyphs ought to have the same meaning as the bottom part of hanau glyphs.
There are many more glyphs of the hanau type to study than the very few pito glyphs and a comparison shows that an imbalance exists for example in Aa2-73 and Aa5-69:
Though the right limbs are here not 'snakes' but normal legs. Searching for hanau glyphs with imbalance I cannot but notice how the semi-circular ear appears in for example the following glyphs:
The numbers (4 and 8) in Aa4-28 are 'cosmic', and between Aa4-61 and Aa5-62 there is an internal parallel starting from Aa4-63, the only one internal parallel with twice 10 = 20 glyphs:
The sequence Ab5-1--10 arrives immediately to the right of the midpoint, as defined by line numbers on side b. Aa4-63--64 are at the midpoint, as defined by 100π glyphs:
If we count including Aa1-1 then Aa4-63 corresponds to 100π (251 + 63 = 314), if we count excludning Aa1-1 then Aa4-64 is needed to reach 100π. We remember that Hb7-7--26 corresponds to the 20 glyphs which explain the difference between 648 and 200π on Large Santiago Tablet. The structure is 314 + 20 + 314, i.e. 20 is in the middle of the text on side b:
346 - 314 = 32 and 330 - 314 = 16. In the middle of side a of H we found Ha6-106 etc:
In spite of the destroyed glyphs on H we may try to recreate the glyph number for Ha6-106. According to what I earlier have arrived at, there may once have been 24 (= 19 + 5 destroyed) glyphs before Ha6-106:
We can therefore try to add side a of H to the table:
329 is quite close to 330. If we add 15 to 299 we reach 314, and 329 - 15 = 314. The glyph sequence which we reach by this manipulation is Ha6-121 etc:
Ha6-121 -- 141 are 21 glyphs, one more than expected, which suggests that the searched for midsequence with 20 glyphs should be Ha6-122 -- 141. Presumably the parallel to Pa5-68 should have 2 glyphs, not 1 as guessed earlier:
We can now adjust the numbers, step by step according to the above:
We have arrived at two alternatives. The first alternative is the old one - to fix the 20 glyphs as Ha6-106--125 (with a nice number of glyphs, 300, arriving before the 20):
The other (new) alternative is to adjust 300 to 314 to reach a symmetry with side b. Then the 20 glyphs will be Ha6-120--139:
Ha6-120 and Ha6-139 clearly define 18 glyphs between them. No such evidence can be seen in the old alternative. In Tahua we can assemble the following parallel glyphs:
In Aa1-79 the little 'bird' is looking forward, not backwards as in Ha6-139, but Aa1-63 and Aa1-79 together indicate (as in H) a set of glyphs. However, where in H there are 7 glyphs (Ha6-128--134) there are only 4 (Aa1-71--74) in A:
Instead of a group of 20 glyphs Tahua has only 17 glyphs, a number indicating that the set of glyphs in A is not defined by endpoints at Aa1-63 and Aa1-74 (at least on of them must be wrong). But this fact does not preclude arranging the glyphs in H with 20 central glyphs defined as Ha6-120--139. The glyph label numbers and the glyph numbers counted from the beginning of side a can be reconstructed like this, (examples):
Ha6-101 will be the *301st glyph on side a with a reconstructed line number -25:
The glyph which in Tahua is parallel to Ha6-114 (the π glyph) is Aa1-57:
We can read Aa1-57 as a fully grown person, a 'noon' person.
The new alternative of locating the 20 glyphs (on side a of H), with reconstructed numbers, is:
Earlier I have reconstructed the number of glyphs in line Ha6 as '69?', now we may rather confidently adjust it to '*70 (?)':
Our gradually improved table comparing the sides of H with the sides of A can be updated into:
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