TRANSLATIONS

Aa8-5 (590)

Ab7-30 (526)

808 = 4 * 202

1334 = 526 + 728 + 80

TRANSLATIONS

We will now return to the main stream of pages, having completed the sequence from 'here':

There apparently is a structure in Tahua which is based on 4 equally long sequences of glyphs, and they together measure out 4 * 202 = 808:

This structure is beginning with the 80 last glyphs on side a and ending with the 64 first glyphs on side a, leaving 526 glyphs from Aa1-65 up to and including Aa8-5 as a separate unit.

Number 526 is also the ordinal number (counted from Ab1-1) of maitaki in Ab7-30, a fact which invites to reflection. 26 is the last kuhane station of the ruling (sun) king and five (rima) means fire. Possibly the two text units - each 526 glyphs long - refer to the length of a season for the great fire in the sky (sun). 138 + 64 = 202 could then represent the last quarter beyond such a season.

526 + 202 (the last quarter) = 728, a number remarkably in harmony with 526. 7 can refer to the rest of 12 after '5' has been reduced 'to ashes'. It can be used as a symbol for the darkness which has fallen after Sun has left in autumn. 28 likewise alludes to a time when Sun is absent - the number of nights in a month (those in which Moon is shining).

5 * 26 = 130, which presumably here has been used to symbolize 13 times 10 (the number of solar months in a year). 13 * 28 = 364 is a lunar measure.

7 * 28 = 196, and it is an important number which we have seen earlier in the rongorongo texts, nota bene:

	67		111			82
Gb3-1		Gb5-6 (360)		Gb8-30	Ga1-1		Ga4-1 (85)	Ga4-2
	68		196
	264

196 = 14 * 14 and this 'square in time' can be used to measure the dark 'winter'. 364 - 196 = 168 (= 7 * 24) is fact which 'throws some light' on this key number.

If we translate 2 glyphs as 1 day, then 728 glyphs becomes 364 days:

525		138	64
	Ab7-30 (526)
*728 = 2 364**

808 glyphs will be equal to 404 (= 364 + 40) days and it is fruitful to compare with the end of the 400 days in G:


Gb6-17 (400)	Gb6-18

Gb6-19	Gb6-20

Gb6-21 (5)	Gb6-22	Gb6-23	Gb6-24

Gb6-25	Gb6-26	Gb6-27	Gb6-28

Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3	Gb7-4 (16)

As was found earlier (cfr hahe) Gb6-21 can be compared with Aa8-21 (where we can count 8 * 21 = 168):


Aa8-2	Aa8-3	Aa8-4	Aa8-5 (590)	Aa8-6 (1)	Aa8-7

Aa8-8	Aa8-9

Aa8-10	Aa8-11	Aa8-12	Aa8-13	Aa8-14	Aa8-15

Aa8-16	Aa8-17

Aa8-18	Aa8-19	Aa8-20	Aa8-21 (16)

Aa8-22	Aa8-23	Aa8-24	Aa8-25

590 is equal to 20 * 29.5 and possibly the ordinal number 16 counted to Aa8-21 should be read as 8 days. Maybe also those 526 glyphs up to and including Aa8-5 represent half as many days. Counted from Aa1-1 the ordinal number of Aa8-21 is 606, which presumably means 303 days.

The idea of adding 'one more' at the end of a period is presumably derived from the fact that 2 * 29.5 = 59 (the length of a lunar double month), because 1 more is needed to reach 60 (the length of a solar double month). Counting periods of the Sun it would be natural to add 1 more when trying to coordinate Sun with the time measured by the Moon. For instance should 99 (fetched from the cycle of Venus measured as 99 lunar synodic months) then be increased to 100. But in the structure of Tahua yet another 'one more' has been added. Maybe it reflects the fact that we must add 1 to 364 in order to reach 365.

I have chosen to locate this important key page in the main stream of pages and not as a kind of summary at the end of those in the sequence from 'here'.

Not much should be added at this point, except that 444 = 364 + 80, and that the creator of P may have thought so when he (for once) used a reversed cracked wing on manu rere:


Pa8-9	Pa8-10	Pa8-11 (444)	Pa8-12	Pa8-13	Pa8-14	Pa8-15

The rhomb as elbow ornament in Pa8-14 and the curious beak could refer to a completed season of the Moon. It is a Monday if Pa8-11 is ruled by Venus (which was deduced from number 444 = 3 + 7 * 63).

Glyph number 364 (counted from Pa1-1) is Pa6-49 in which we can observe how ragi has no moon crescent at right, and 6 * 49 are numinous numbers which together becomes 294 - on the verge of 10 * 29.5. Pa6-50 exhibits a break in time and the generation of a new little '1', which can be interpreted as representing day number 365 of the year but also to allude to day number 295:


Pa6-33 (348)	Pa6-34	Pa6-35	Pa6-36	Pa6-37	Pa6-38

Pa6-39 (354)	Pa6-40	Pa6-41	Pa6-42	Pa6-43	Pa6-44

Pa6-45 (360)	Pa6-46	Pa6-47	Pa6-48 (363)	Pa6-49	Pa6-50 (365)

Rogo in Pa6-33 has ordinal number 348 (which can be read e.g. as 3 * 48 = 144 = 12 * 12). 6 * 33 = 198 is close to 200, but presumably it should instead be thought of as the 2nd glyph beyond 196:


Pa6-26	Pa6-27 (192)	Pa6-28	Pa6-29	Pa6-30	Pa6-31 (196)	Pa6-32

Rogo should be at the beginning, and Pa6-32 is at the end according to the numbers (6 * 32 = 192).

Early I did recognize a kind of parallel with the beginning of line Aa2:


Aa2-1	Aa2-2 (92)	Aa2-3	Aa2-4

Aa2-5	Aa2-6	Aa2-7	Aa2-8

With the new perspective gained from working with the planets and with the structure of Tahua where the cycle of 4 times 101 days is ending with Aa1-64, it is now possible to confirm that both texts describe the rebirth of light.

There are 90 glyphs in line Aa1, and if the 36 which are at the end of the line are added to the 8 above, we will reach 44 - as if to say that 100 is missing (in order to reach 12 * 12 = 144). The vero sign in Aa2-4 says it is time for the old one to go away.

The double rings in Pa6-46 (where we have the constellation of 6 and the dark number 46) could represent the 2nd time Sun goes away (the first time being at the end of high summer). It is day number 360 + 1, a new one must come. In Aa2-3 (Friday and 2 * 3 = 6) a similar concept could be at work.

The preceding haga is glyph number 92, which could allude to 46. In P haga has number 192. In G the corresponding glyph might be Ga1-1:

Ga1-1