TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The first two pages (with an underpage) at kara etahi:

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

Possibly the kara etahi type of glyph is a compound between manu rere and vae kore:


manu rere	kara etahi	vae kore

If manu rere means the 'life spirit' which is flying up towards the heavens after a 'year' has ended, and if vae kore refers to the other end of life, when a newborn little 'chicken' just has emerged from his shell, then what could kara etahi possibly mean?

The newborn life has his 'beak' open, ready to eat and grow. Not so manu rere and not so kara etahi. Maybe the middle location in my table above is a 'station' when the 'life spirit' just has entered the body of the new one - the single wing implying that the flight of the spirit must be over. But still the new one has not been 'hatched'

The pointed beak could then refer to the point (tara) when the spirit of life returns.

There are very few kara etahi glyphs and they exhibit no distinct character. The glyph type may be nothing more than an artifact created by me in order to classify glyphs.

From the C text I have listed these three kara etahi glyphs in my catalogue:


Ca10-26	Ca11-18	Ca12-4

Obviously the bird in Ca11-18 is more of a glyph joke than a proper kara etahi sign. Ca12-4 is more interesting, it is a reversed kara etahi glyph. Possibly we should consider Ca10-26 and Ca12-4 to be a pair:

side a
280		38		72
	Ca10-26 (281)		Ca12-4 (320)

A quick look at the text reveals, however, that also Ca11-18 must be taken into account. Moreover, to these 3 kara etahi glyphs should be added 3 manu rere glyphs of a special sort, because they belong in a structure where they alternate together with the kara etahi glyphs:


Ca10-11	Ca10-19	Ca11-8


Ca10-1 (256)	Ca10-2	Ca10-3	Ca10-4	Ca10-5	Ca10-6	Ca10-7	Ca10-8

Ca10-9	Ca10-10	Ca10-11 (266)	Ca10-12	Ca10-13	Ca10-14	Ca10-15	Ca10-16

Ca10-17	Ca10-18	Ca10-19 (274)	Ca10-20	Ca10-21	Ca10-22	Ca10-23

Ca10-24	Ca10-25	Ca10-26 (281)	Ca10-27	Ca10-28	Ca10-29

	Ca11-1	Ca11-2	Ca11-3	Ca11-4	Ca11-5

Ca11-6	Ca11-7	Ca11-8 (292)	Ca11-9	Ca11-10	Ca11-11	Ca11-12

	Ca11-13	Ca11-14	Ca11-15

Ca11-16	Ca11-17	Ca11-18 (302)	Ca11-19	Ca11-20	Ca11-21	Ca11-22

	Ca11-23	Ca11-24	Ca11-25	Ca11-26

	Ca11-27	Ca11-28	Ca11-29	Ca11-30	Ca11-31	Ca11-32

Ca12-1	Ca12-2	Ca12-3	Ca12-4 (320)	Ca12-5	Ca12-6	Ca12-7	Ca12-8 (324)

I will postpone discussing these 69 glyphs until later on in the dictionary. The proper place is moko. And also inoino.

A few comments already here, though. The 6 birds are distributed as 5 + 1:

1				4
1	Ca10-1 (256)	Ca10-2	Ca10-3	4	Ca10-8
2				4
2	Ca10-9	Ca10-10	Ca10-11 (266)	4	Ca10-16
3				3
3	Ca10-17	Ca10-18	Ca10-19 (274)	3	Ca10-23
4				7
4	Ca10-24	Ca10-25	Ca10-26 (281)	7	Ca11-5
5				6
5	Ca11-6	Ca11-7	Ca11-8 (292)	6	Ca11-15
6				7
6	Ca11-16	Ca11-17	Ca11-18 (302)	7	Ca11-26
7
7	Ca11-27	Ca11-28	Ca11-29	Ca11-30
0
	Ca11-31	Ca11-32	Ca12-1	Ca12-2	Ca12-3	Ca12-4 (320)

	Ca12-5	Ca12-6	Ca12-7	Ca12-8 (324)

The odd one is the reversed kara etahi:

	64
Ca10-1 (256)	64	Ca12-4 (320)
*8 32 = 256**	*2 32**	*10 32 = 320**

256 + 32 = 288, and the following moko has a special 'hand' gesture:

4				7
4	Ca10-24	Ca10-25	Ca10-26 (281)	7	Ca11-5 (289)

The 4th 'period' is special also because of its marama glyph:

1	-	3		5		7	-
			Ca10-17		Ca11-6
2		4		6		8
	Ca10-9		Ca10-24		Ca11-16		Ca12-2

There are 348 glyphs on side a and 348 - 324 = 24. Multiples of 32 do not continue. 348 - 320 = 28 suggests sun has left. Multiples of 32 probably are used for the sun (in his capacity to promote growth).

Side b has 392 glyphs, and if 28 are added we will have 420, which probably was intended. The last 28 glyphs on side a are in a way to be counted as the beginning of side b.

This conclusion is confirmed by the evident continuation of the text beyond the end of side a:


*Ca14-18	*Ca14-19	*Ca14-20

*Ca14-21	*Ca14-22	*Ca14-23

*Ca14-24	*Ca14-25	*Ca14-26

*Ca14-27	*Ca14-28	*Ca14-29

Cb1-1	Cb1-2	Cb1-3

From Ca1-1 up to and including Ca10-1 there are 8 * 32 = 16 * 16 = 256 glyphs:

						249
Ca1-1	Ca1-2	Ca1-3	Ca1-4	Ca1-5	Ca1-6	249	Ca10-1 (256)
6						250

If we count to 324 on side a (which the glyphs do suggest), then there will be 348 - 324 = 24 glyphs left, a sun-oriented number. 24 + 6 = 30 knits together the glyphs from Ca12-9 onwards with the beginning of side b.

30 + 250 = 280 then becomes the measure which is completed with Ca10-1 (Mercury both as number 1 and as number 28):


Ca9-17	Ca9-18	Ca9-19	Ca9-20

Ca9-21	Ca9-22	Ca9-23	Ca9-24

Ca9-25	Ca9-26	Ca9-27	Ca10-1

9 * 20 = 180 is what has been counted during 9 months with the sun - there are only 20 days in a month. It is time to create a new king (hakaariki).