TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

If we now return to Mamari, filled with ideas from the excursions in Tahua, we immediately will notice how the 6 birds in the sequence from Ca10-1 (256) up to and including Ca12-8 (324) all have 'a tree with thumb' in front of them. And 324 - 256 = 64:


Aa3-64	Aa3-65 (240)


Ca10-10	Ca10-11 (266)	Ca11-7	Ca11-8 (292)

Ca10-18	Ca10-19 (274)	Ca11-17	Ca11-18 (302)

Ca10-25	Ca10-26 (281)	Ca12-3	Ca12-4 (320)

Aa3-65 could illustrate the disturbed winds caused by 'lopping off the head of Spring Sun'. No similar disturbance is noticed in the 6 redmarked C glyphs.

3 high 'trees' are ordered together with manu rere, 3 low ones with kara etahi:


Ca10-10	Ca10-11 (266)	Ca10-18	Ca10-19 (274)	Ca11-7	Ca11-8 (292)

Ca10-25	Ca10-26 (281)	Ca11-17	Ca11-18 (302)	Ca12-3	Ca12-4 (320)

The odd Ca11-18 probably refers to day 365, because 63 + 302 = 365:


Ca11-13	Ca11-14	Ca11-15	Ca11-16

Ca11-17	Ca11-18 (365)	Ca11-19	Ca11-20

Maybe one wing (kara etahi) indicates Spring Sun - the wing of kara etahi is always at left.

The double wing variant (manu rere) would then, reasonably, be the Moon. 9 * 29.5 = 265.5, or 266 (Ca10-11) if we wish to use only natural numbers. 292 (Ca11-8) + 63 = 355, one more than 12 * 29.5.

274 (Ca10-19) does not fit this pattern. But 274 + 28 = 302 (Ca11-18). 302 + 18 = 320 (Ca12-4). And 274 + 18 = 292 = 266 + 26.

Idle speculations. However, we should remember for future use:


Ca11-7	Ca11-8 (292)
63 + 291 = 354	355

Ca11-17	Ca11-18 (302)
63 + 301 = 364	365

Adding 10 to the ordinal numbers moves the planets 3 paces ahead.

If Sun leaves already at midsummer (after having had his last drink of water), then his return in midwinter can be imagined as the time when he is reborn as a little child, and kara etahi could mean he cannot fly as yet. The 'tree' is low.

The reversed kara etahi will then indicate when this sad state of affairs is over:


Ca12-3	Ca12-4	Ca12-5	Ca12-6	Ca12-7 (323)	Ca12-8

12 * 3 = 36 and 12 * 5 = 60 and then things are moving again. The 'fist' (full with fingers) is held high in front and inoino is high in the air and with promising mata in front. It is a day of Mars, the 'spring garment' of Sun.

And the summary page:

The kara etahi glyph type is closely related to an odd variant of manu rere, which the 3 pairs in Tahua can serve to exemplify:


Aa5-9	Aa5-10		Ab7-28	Ab7-29		Aa2-33	Ab6-37

Kara etahi evidently is a sign of a juvenile - in contrast to manu rere which apparently is the opposite, a sign of the 'spirit of life' leaving. Kara etahi comes at the beginning and manu rere at the end.

Aa5-9--10 seems to be a reversal of the natural order of time, but it can be explained by considering Aa5-9 as the glyph beyond the end of a period with 166 glyphs, while kara etahi is at the beginning of the following period:

	165
Aa2-85		Aa5-8	Aa5-9 (342)	Aa5-10
	166

Another example from Tahua, on the other hand, seems to indicate that the birth of a new season can occur before the 'spirit' of the old one is leaving:

80	324			194
		Ab5-1 (325)	Ab5-2		Ab7-25	Ab7-26
200 + 2		day 1		97	99

				138	64
Ab7-27	Ab7-28	Ab7-29 (525)	Ab7-30
0		0		100 + 1

The structure of the Tahua text has two parts, the longer of which is based on 8 periods with 99 + 2 glyphs, i.e. 8 * 101 = 808 glyphs in all. 99 is a number which presumably alluds to the cycle of Venus:

side a			side b			side a
525		80	525		138	64
	Aa8-5 (590)			Ab7-30 (526)
526		*808 = 8 (99 + 2)**
1334

With 2 glyphs per day the long period will be 404 days. However, among them 16 glyphs (8 days) apparently do not count. Venus has 2 dark periods each of which measures 8 days.

The Land of 8 is in the sky. Only by mapping it onto Easter Island can it become a name for the island.

If we multiply 99 * 2 (instead of adding 99 + 2 = 101), the remarkable fact is that 8 * 198 = 1584. We can once again can find the cycle of Venus: 1584 = 1000 + 584. The numerical game threatens to take over all observations of 'reality'.