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TRANSLATIONS
We cannot ignore the very clear signs that Qa6-12 refers to day 236 = 8 * 29.5, and moving backwards in time according to the perceived method we ought to be able to find day 230:
55 - 6 = 49, which means Qa5-55 is a Monday (while of course Qa6-1 is a day of Mercury). Ordinal number 268 (i.e. 205 + 63) surely is significant, because with the cut off hakaturou in Qa5-55 (a triplet of 'fire') the daylight calendar of Q ends abruptly at noon. In G day number 268 comes just after Te Pou (= 9 * 29.5 = 265½):
Qa6-8 (6 and 8 again) should have also (in addition to day 234) day number 276 (= 4 * 69). Maybe the pair of calendars in Tahua have been documented overlapping in the Q text (and in the texts of H and P)? Anyhow, we must try to find day 2 * 236 = 472. It should be glyph number 218 + 2 * 236 = 690 (counted from Qa1-1), and it is Qb7-37:
69 is a sign of turning around and 7 * 37 = 259, the end is near for a year with 260 days (of Sun). A new cycle will begin with moe (wading in fog it seems). 7 * 52 (as in 752) = 364. But 75 * 2 = 150, maybe suggesting we should divide 364 by 2. But 752 and 753 can be alternatively be explained as Moon (7) and 52 (weeks in a year) respectively 53 ('one more'). The sinking fish in Qb7-36 seems to say that it is a Moonish season (7) descending, and the rhombic nose could indicate autumn. The tail fin is fat - it is not a fish from spring. Also, the pair of maitaki have only 2 mata each, surely they cannot represent spring time. Ordinal number 692 = 192 + 500. What happens if we will use the earlier found formula (to divide the glyph number by 2 and add 64)?
Towards the end of a 400 day long year Lady Moon is giving birth to next cycle (in Qb7-13, where 7 * 13 = 91). According to number 666 she is giving birth to the Spring Beast! It is a dark time - ariga erua without mata (Qb7-15) - because the season of nuku (autumn) has been buried below a deluge (ua). The baby is exhibited as a hakaturou (in Qb7-16, where 7 * 16 = 4 * 28). The two newly found rules will instead give the following numbers:
460 is obviously (?) 46 times 10. And 46 is 20 (how to count the Moon) added to 26 (how to count Sun). From G we have learned that a new year is beginning with Rogo in day 409. Before day 400 there are triplets of glyphs, possibly a rule around solstice (3 stones are necessary to be able to put a pot on and lit a fire below).
The Beast has here the shape of gagana. The beginning comes with 3 and 88 and the end with 3 and 99. 3 * 88 = 264 and 3 * 99 = 297, where 26 and 4 should refer to Sun while 29 and 7 should refer to the Moon. There seems to be 4 * 3 = 12 special days at the end of a 400 year. We have still not used our primary glyphs proving the old method of counting:
369 is a compact for 36 changing into 69, it seems. 5 * 36 = 180 means half a year is in the past and Sun evidently is the subject. The fat legs in Qb5-35 inform us that it is autumn rather than spring which is ending. With the two new methods we instead will have:
1296 is the number of glyphs in H excluding a possible 18 at the end of line Ha12. 672 seems to express 600 and twice 36. The two new methods survived also this test. Is this just an intrinsic effect of equations which can be used to transform the day numbers in one of the three methods into any of the other two? Or is there a systematic focus only on the cardinal times, by which it is allowed to sail away freely in between? |
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