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TRANSLATIONS
The second and last page of 'an overview':
Ya1-1 has a triplet of 'balls' with one feather at their backs (in the past). This can be contrasted with one feather inside (not yet present) in the rising fishes beyond the end of the old year:
The signs are reversed in Y:
Not only is vaha kai reversed and feathers inside in front are feathers outside and at the back, but the manu kake beak in front (in Yb3-1) can be seen to be the opposite of the 'tail' in Gb5-9. The small kai sign in Ya1-2 is in the element at left, while the great empty hand in Gb5-17 is in front. The 3 rising but yet not shining fishes are arranged horizontally, while the 3 once shining balls in Ya1-1 are arranged vertically. And also the Maya sign used at the beginning of the solar year is the opposite of that in Ya1-3:
The 'bar of light' in front in 3 Zip is rising, while the bar in front at Ya1-3 is sinking. All these indications of 'the other side' taken together can be read not only as the season when sun light is abating because we follow the Sun down into Hiva, but also as what happens when Sun dives down into the sea at midsummer, having spent his 300 days. In both cases the quartet of waxing moon crescents and the sign of fatness will fit with the season which is unfolding. Even the idea of vaha kai being the mouth of an imagined head still remains viable, though with a change of values:
3 comes one week before 10. Calendars are defined by the Moon. She is born at midsummer. Day 364 is defined as when 26 fortnights are in the past, half the year, but 364 - 182 is the whole of the season which Moon rules alone. This alternative is better than the Sun down in Hiva alternative. The Underworld cannot be depicted, and neither should it be done if it was possible, because that would be like calling them up to the earth. Calendar I again:
The Mercury and only conceptual moa crying out in Yb1-1 is just before day 413 (Tama), and it will soon be time for One Tea. But the fat fish manu kake marking the end of the 2nd half of 400 days seems to indicate the sun baby (tamaiti), rather than the new moon. In G the new sun (Rogo) comes 5 days before the new moon:
Although the pattens are strikingly similar there are still reversals: The crying out moa in Gb7-1 has the upper part of his beak and also his 'legs' ending in nothing - it is the old year disappearing. In Yb1-1 only the front of the head of the crying out moa is seen, it is a beginning from nothing. And the lower beak is oriented downwards, not upwards as in Gb7-1. Glyph line b1 is at the beginning of the back side, glyph line b7 at the beginning of the front side. The vertically arranged pair of mata in pu (Yb1-2) can be contrasted with the horizontally arranged pair of mata in hau tea (Gb7-2). Both are Jupiter days, but whereas old Sun is at midwinter, lying flat on his face, Yb1-2 stands upright and is midsummer, where she is giving forth twins. Tama is a double birth - cfr Yb1-3. Time moves on and then follow 40 dark days and nights. The glyphs tell about a new beginning:
100 days beyond 365 the 4th 'thumb' of vai is growing in front. 4 * 5 = 20 (sun) and also 2 * 5 = 10 (moon). Counting from day 230 henua at Yb2-6 will be number 236 = 8 * 29.5. Counting at henua in Yb2-1 (445) the beginning could be 185 days earlier, because 185 + 260 = 445. In G there are 471 glyphs, one less than 16 * 29.5 = 472. To reach that number it is necessary to move beyond Yb2-6, but Yb2-8 is a 'zero' glyph. |
