TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

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Even it it is true that Sun moves under the earth every night this fact should hardly be documented in rongorongo texts, I think. Only what can be seen with our own eyes should be there. It is a matter of verification.

The glyphs are telling us that it is a dark time, and also that it is a time of waning (there are signs of fatness). Sun leaves after 300 days and then only Moon remains. We can still say that there are 10 days for every glyph and we can still have glyph line Yb3 at the beginning:

180 days
	Yb3-1	Yb3-2	Yb3-3	Yb3-4	Yb3-5	Yb3-6 (60)

	Ya1-1	Ya1-2	Ya1-3	Ya1-4	Ya1-5	Ya1-6 (120)

	Ya2-1	Ya2-2	Ya2-3	Ya2-4	Ya2-5	Ya2-6 (180)

There is evidence which 'proves' this way of reading the glyphs is the right way.

Let us begin with Ya1-1. The glyph has a triplet of 'balls' with feather signs at their backs (in the past).


Yb3-1	Yb3-2	Yb3-3	Yb3-4	Yb3-5	Yb3-6

Ya1-1	Ya1-2	Ya1-3	Ya1-4	Ya1-5	Ya1-6

This can be contrasted with a feather in front but inside (not yet present) in the rising fishes, primarily Gb5-14--16, beyond the end of the old year according to G:


Gb5-7	Gb5-8	Gb5-9	Gb5-10	Gb5-11	Gb5-12	Gb5-13

Gb5-14	Gb5-15	Gb5-16	Gb5-17	Gb5-18	Gb5-19	Gb5-20

The signs are reversed in Y. Not only is vaha kai reversed and the feather signs outside and at the back, but the manu kake beak is up front (in Yb3-1) and can be seen as the opposite of the 'tail' in Gb5-9.

The small kai hand in Ya1-2 is in the element at left, while the great empty hand in Gb5-17 is in the element at the front. The 3 rising - but yet not shining - fishes are arranged horizontally, while the 3 - no longer shining - balls in Ya1-1 are arranged vertically.

Also Ya1-3 at first glance appears to be a reversed sign, when we compare it with what we can see in the Mayan calendar:


Ya1-1	Ya1-2	Ya1-3	Ya1-4	Ya1-5

1 Pop	2 Uo	3 Zip	4 Zotz	5 Tzek

I imagine the Mayas used the planets in the same order as in our week.

The 'bar of light' in front in 3 Zip is rising, while the bar in front at Ya1-3 is sinking. This could mean the path of the sun is leading down in Ya1-3 but up in 3 Zip. However, we must not forget that the Mayan signs are drawn with time running from right to left. Let us therefore look at their calendar with their eyes:


1 Pop	2 Uo	3 Zip	4 Zotz	5 *Tzek*	6 *Xul*	7 Yaxkin

8 Mol	9 Ch'en	10 Yax	11 Sac	12 Ceh	13 Mac	14 Kankin

15 Moan	16 Pax	17 Kayab	18 Cumhu	19 Vayeb

The 'bar of light' is now sinking in 3 Zip (and also in 2 Uo), which could refer to waning moon light, because the picture in 4 Zotz has an open mouth in front - it is their vaha mea sign announcing the arrival of spring sun light.

Crossing the equator at this point in time we will find autumn approaching, and the 'bar of light' sinking down will then be the sun.

The 'vaha mea' mouth in 4 Zotz corresponds to the pure sign in Ya1-4, and we can therefore associate pure with an open mouth:


4 Zotz	5 Tzek

Ya1-4	Ya1-5

In 5 Tzek spring sun is returning from his visit with his winter maid down south of the equator. In Ya1-5 the Rei glyph is unusual and could very well be a moon equivalent of the normal Rei glyphs which are concentrated to the front side of the rongorongo texts.

Two 'crescent signs' inside in 5 Tzek can be contrasted with two such signs outside in Ya1-5.

All these signs in Calendar I of 'the other side' taken together can be read not only as indicating how sun light is abating when Sun in the evening is being swallowed at the horizon in the west, but also as what happens when Sun 'dives down into the sea' beyond high summer, having spent all 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. In the evening a meal certainly has been prepared in the earth oven and after the extensive growth in spring nobody goes hungry.

Even the idea of vaha kai being the mouth of an imagined head still remains viable, though possibly with a change of values:

	Moon reborn	Sun swallowed
Yc1-3			Gb5-10

3 (in Yc1-3) comes one week before 10. Calendars are determined by the Moon. Day 364 can be defined as when 26 fortnights are in the past, half a year.

This alternative is better than the alternative of interpreting the text as describing the nighttime journey of the Sun. The Underworld cannot be depicted, and neither should it be done if it was possible, because that would be like calling up the ghosts.

Calendar I once again, now revised so that the first 180 days of the year (spring) lie in the past:

180 days
	Yb3-1	Yb3-2 (200)	Yb3-3	Yb3-4	Yb3-5	Yb3-6

	Ya1-1	Ya1-2 (260)	Ya1-3	Ya1-4	Ya1-5	Ya1-6

	Ya2-1	Ya2-2	Ya2-3	Ya2-4	Ya2-5	Ya2-6 (360)

60 days
	Ya2-7 (365)	Ya2-8	Ya3-1	Ya3-2	Ya3-3

	Ya3-4	Ya3-5	Ya3-6 (400)	Ya3-7	Yb1-1	Yb1-2	Yb1-3 (420)

The Mercury moa crying out in Yb1-1 presumably is announcing the kuhane station Tama (day number 14 * 29.5 = 413). But the fat fish manu kake (Ya3-5) marking the end of the 2nd half of 400 days could indicate how old sun (bird at left) is moving on in form of a new sun baby (tamaiti). In G the new sun (Rogo) comes 5 days before Tama:


Ya3-4	Ya3-5	Ya3-6 (400)	Ya3-7	Yb1-1	Yb1-2	Yb1-3 (420)

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28	Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3

Although the pattens are similar there are 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.


Gb7-1	4 Zotz	Yb1-1

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 part of the beak is oriented downwards, not upwards as in Gb7-1. Glyph line b1 is in G at the beginning of the back side, glyph line b7 is at the beginning of the front side. And 4 Zotz is the beginning of spring sun.

Time moves on and 40 dark days and nights will come. The glyphs also tell about a new beginning:

40 days
	Yb1-4 (425)	Yb1-5	Yb1-6	Yb1-7

	Yb2-1	Yb2-2	Yb2-3	Yb2-4 (460)
20 days
20 days	Yb2-5 (465)	Yb2-6	Yb2-7	Yb2-8 (480)

100 days beyond 365 the 4th 'thumb' of vai is growing up in front. Counting from day 230 henua at Yb2-6 will be number 240 = 8 * 30. 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 evidently Yb2-8 is a 'zero' glyph.