TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Although our two main tagata rere glyphs have 290 glyphs between them, we have found that this measure hardly means a 290 days long dark period:

Saturn (†) ignites the fire	*290 = 10 29**	*Sun () is covered up**

Ca2-11		Ca12-12 (328)

Instead, by identifying two exceptional tagata rere in the moon calendar we have been able to work out a more true structure, which I here present with measures both based on the moon (2 * 29.5 = 59) and the sun (2 * 30 = 60):

waxing sun
36		139					30
	Ca2-11		Ca7-9 (177)	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12 (180)
*177 = 3 59**
*3 60 = 180**
*210 = 14 15**

By counting double-months instead of months the differences between the lunar and sun measures will be equal to a whole number of glyphs, e.g. 3 glyphs (days) for half a year.

We can see that waxing sun has been given 3 double-months, quite in agreement with how kai hands are drawn. We know that the kai sign means growing, and sun is growing during half a year up to midsummer.

Autumn is indicated with the reversed kai sign at left in Ca8-12, it means waning:

waning sun
	116				62
Ca8-12 (211)		Ca12-12 (328)	Ca12-13	Ca12-14
*118 = 2 59**
*2 60 = 120**
*182 = 13 14**

The head is exceptionally big, maybe alluding to how the fire of Sun is at its maximum during high summer.

(3 + 2) * 60 = 300 and (3 + 2) * 59 = 295. Vai in Ca12-14 has only a single string around the oval, sun is absent. If Sun is leaving in Ca12-13 (significantly a day of Moon, she determines when time is due), then 392 can be understood as 299 + 30 (high summer) + 63. We recognize 63 as the number of days which in G and H are used from winter solstice to the beginning of the 'front side'. In C the whole cycle seems to be documented on side a.

It ought to be waxing and waning Sun which is described on side a. Sun is only one - the other half of his time he is not present here but is on the other side of the earth (visiting his winter maid). During autumn his wife (Moon) may have a male champion at her side in form of Saturn.

The measure 182, from tagata rere in Ca8-12 to the end of side a, ought to have a counterbalance during the waxing season. If we count from Ca1-1 we will reach 182 at Ca7-14:

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	Ca7-8	Ca7-9 (177)	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12 (180)

	Ca7-13	Ca7-14 (182)	Ca7-15	Ca7-16

From investigations at hua we recognize Ca7-14 as the reverse of hua, viz. 'the father'. Spring sun is no longer young, he is old. His time is in the past and Moon will take his place. 3 high positioned feathers are at left and 3 low are at right in this rising 'father' fish. Those 3 low at right are lower than the 'equator' of the fish - Sun is with his winter maid.

182 + 28 + 182 = 392 = 14 * 28, is another structure, here not with 30 days in high summer but with 4 weeks instead. Or we should rather say 2 fortnights. 392 - 28 = 364 = 14 * 26. Waxing sun measures 13 * 14 = 182 days, equal to waning sun. And the 63 days at the end of the cycle are not special - they have nothing to do with counting according to the Moon.

From those 290 days we ought to conclude that counting 'between glyphs' (counting 'short') is not a method to be used when reading rongorongo texts.

Vae is followed by vai, which seems to be a word pun. The double strings in vae shows the last trace of sun in his path:


Ca12-13	Ca12-14

Haú in Ca7-15 has 15 feathers, which can be read as 'full moon' (referring to the sun). However, the leg at right is ending without toes, which ought to mean that 15 is referring to the past. 12 * 15 = 180 should be a better interpretation:


Ca7-9 (177)	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12 (180)

Ca7-13	Ca7-14 (182)	Ca7-15	Ca7-16

7 * 15 = 105 = 5 * 21, the end of spring is in the past - it should be at day 5 * 20 = 100 counted from somewhere. 183 - 100 = 83 is the ordinal number for Ca4-7:


Ca4-1	Ca4-2	Ca4-3

Ca4-4	Ca4-5	Ca4-6	Ca4-7 (83)	Ca4-8

Hakaariki (to make a king) is a suitable glyph type if 100 days of spring lie ahead. The colour of Mars also fits.

Number 168 has been used in parallel with number 182 - both are measured from Ca1-1 instead of from winter solstice:

167			54			167
	Ca6-28	Ca7-1		Ca8-25 (224)	Ca8-26
*168 = 6 28**		*56 = 2 28 = 8 * 7**			*168 = 8 21**
*392 = 14 28 = 8 * 28 + 8 * 21 = 8 * 49**

8 * 25 at Saturn (tagata rere moe) is equal to 200, which points at Saturn in Ca1-25:


Ca1-19	Ca1-20	Ca1-21	Ca1-22

Ca1-23	Ca1-24	Ca1-25	Ca1-26

The more or less vertical straight line at Saturn in Ca1-25 intrudes a little bit in the 'nut':

24			197			167
	Ca1-25	Ca1-26		Ca8-25 (224)	Ca8-26
	*200 = 8 25**				*168 = 8 21**
392

The climbing 'rat' in Ca1-25 wears the costume of Saturn, and from there 200 days can be counted to the end of summer.

24 + 168 = 192. When this number appears in K (the total number of glyphs), it presumably has been used with another structure in mind. Half 400 should be the number of glyphs for half the total cycle. If the K text ends where Venus disappears (during 8 days) before she reappears as evening star, then 192 could be the right measure for the 'front side' of the year.

Given this perspective, we should be able to pinpoint these 8 dark days at the end of spring also in C. The above structure suggests they could be:


Ca8-16	Ca8-17	Ca8-18 (217)	Ca8-19	Ca8-20	Ca8-21

Ca8-22	Ca8-23	Ca8-24	Ca8-25 (224)	Ca8-26

The glyphs do not appear to agree. If we instead count from Ca1-1, the following (blackmarked) glyphs could be the 8 dark Venus days:

167			28
167	Ca6-28	Ca7-1	28	Ca7-30	Ca7-31	Ca8-1 (200)
*168 = 6 28**		32


Ca8-2	Ca8-3	Ca8-4	Ca8-5	Ca8-6

Ca8-7	Ca8-80	Ca8-9	Ca8-10 (210)

Not convincing.

If Venus as evening star is being 'cooked' during 8 dark days, then we ought to find these 8 days at the end of side a - or more probable at the beginning of side b (because side a forms a complete cycle):


Cb1-1	Cb1-2

Cb1-3	Cb1-4	Cb1-5	Cb1-6

Cb1-7	Cb1-8

Cb1-9	Cb1-10

Plausible.