TRANSLATIONS
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The extraordinary Ab2-42 has a crack at right in vaha kai (of the summer type). It could mean that a new beginning beyond high summer is in the past. Another similar crack is to the right higher up on the 'throat' of the being which is going head down. If he had been in an upright position this crack would also have been to the right and presumably had the same meaning as the first crack. Possibly we should read the sign just so. Then there is another greater gap at bottom right. With the same method of reading it will be a great crack in time now in the past. Which agrees with a new beginning from manu kake in Ab2-37. The head has 3 great feathers and ought to belong to spring sun. If the method of reading an insertion of a zero day (with two glyphs) is correct, then 199 days possibly is to be regarded as two periods (with 100 + a zero day):
Metoro said vero at Ab4-76 and 320 is easily to be understood as the end of the lifegiving sun season. 4 * 80 = 320 and the 2 tagata are 200 glyphs apart. The great rising fish in Ab4-75 seems to be 'killed' - he is at left in the pair of glyphs which could be at day 99 beyond high summer. 4 * 75 = 300 and 320 is half 640. Ab4-80 is the last glyph in line b4. Then comes a new season:
The structure is surely there. We can measure 2 glyphs per day at least up to Ab4-80. With the beginning of glyph line Ab5 the subject naturally must be 'fire' (rima = 5). There are 5 + 5 feathers on hua and 5 feathers on ragi. So we can order:
A new symmetry emerges: The days of 99 are keys for understanding what season is ending, while the 4 following glyphs in a way inaugurate the next season. 18 * 29 = 522:
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