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TRANSLATIONS
'A close agreement between
their world view', the rest
of the pages:
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The
curious structure of the G text, where 360 is not the end of the
time flow, can be understood as an effort to coordinate time and
space. Considering the fact that Polynesia lies with its center in a
band south of the equator, the time from new year (where Sun is
reborn) to the equator should be counted as 24 (times 10) - i.e.
equal to the number of degrees of latitude which Sun has to travel in
order to reach Polynesia from the tropic of Cancer.
Counting only with whole numbers 192 must be regarded as the
necessary time
from winter solstice to 'midsummer'. 7 * 24 = 168 and 8 * 24 = 192.
The K text has 192 glyphs, as I once reconstructed it without
imagining any connection with the distance from the tropic of Cancer
to the equator. But I noticed that glyph line Ka1 was the longest of
them with 24 glyphs, and I also noticed that the sum of the glyphs
in the following lines was 168. This 168 baffled me. It definitely
occurred as a significant number in the texts. But to continue with
K, patterns were revealed, e.g.:
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20 |
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Kb4-14 |
Kb4-15 |
Kb4-16 |
Kb4-17 |
Kb4-18 |
Kb4-19 |
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167 |
168 |
24 |
In
the parallel G text the structure is different because the glyph
lines are longer:
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In
his preface to Hamlet's Mill Giorgio de Santillana describes the key
event which eventually lead to the book:
"By the
time of our meeting she [Hertha von Dechend] had shifted her
attention to Polynesia, and soon she hit pay dirt. As she looked
into the archaeological remains on many islands, a clue was given to
her. The moment of grace came when, on looking (on a map) at two
little islands, mere flyspecks on the waters of the Pacific, she
found that a strange accumulation of maraes or cult places
could be explained only one way: they, and only they, were both
exactly sited on two neat celestial coordininates: the Tropics of
Cancer and of Capricorn."
Wikipedia:
"The
dimensions attributed to Mount Meru, all the references to it being
as a part of the Cosmic Ocean, along with several statements like
that the Sun along with all the planets (including Earth itself)
circumbulate the mountain, make determining its location most
difficult, according to most scholars. However, a small handful
number of western scholars have tried quite hard to identify Mount
Meru or Sumeru with the Pamirs, north-east of Kashmir.
The
Suryasiddhanta mentions that Mt Meru lies in 'the middle of the
Earth' (bhugola-madhya) in the land of the Jambunada (Jambudvipa).
Narpatijayacharyā, a 9th century text, based on mostly
unpublished texts of Yāmala Tantra, mentions 'Sumeru
Prithvī-madhye shrūyate drishyate na tu' ('Su-meru is
heard to be in the middle of the Earth, but is not seen there').
Vārāha Mihira, in his Panch-siddhāntikā, claims Mt
Meru to be at the North Pole (though no mountain exists there as
well). Suryasiddhānta, however, mentions a Mt Meru in the
middle of Earth, besides a Sumeru and a Kumeru at both the Poles.
It is also
quite interesting that in the continent of Africa, there is a town
by the name of Meru at the foot of Mt Kenya at exactly the
Equator, as well as a mountain called Meru lying in
neighbouring Tanzania, at a place named Kinyan-giri (also
located exactly on the Equator), which literally translates into Mt
Kinyan or Kenya."
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In
Equador ('equator') the capital is Quito, which has been
identified as pito:
"One of the parallels
suggested by Heyerdahl is that between Polynesian pito
'navel'…and Quito, the very ancient Ecuadorian capital. In
Hawaiian, the equator is defined as ke ala i ka piko a wakea
'the road to the navel (or birth-place) of Wakea (= Light)',
where piko is the regular reflex of PPN *pito.
Thus the possibility
should exist to postulate kito, meaning 'navel', as a word of
the pre-Incaic Andean language(s), to be used as a place-name later
and therefore preserved today. The question remains open whether
there could be - as in the Hawaiian example - any connection with
the equator crossing the area. (The Incas' ancient capital, Kosco
or Cuzco, meant 'navel' too.)"
(Schuhmacher)
The
centre (pito) of the world (Mount Meru) should lie at
the equator.
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Pito
1. Umbilical cord; navel; centre of
something: te pito o te henua, centre of the
world. Ana poreko te poki, ina ekó rivariva mo uru ki
roto ki te hare o here'u i te poki; e-nanagi te pito o
te poki, ai ka-rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare,
when a child is born one must not enter the house
immediately, for fear of injuring the child (that is, by
breaking the taboo on a house where birth takes place);
only after the umbilical cord has been severed can one
enter the house. 2. Also something used for doing one's
buttons up (buttonhole?). Vanaga.
Navel. Churchill.
H Piko 1. Navel, navel string,
umbilical cord. Fig. blood relative, genitals. Cfr
piko pau 'iole, wai'olu. Mō ka piko, moku
ka piko, wehe i ka piko, the navel cord is cut
[friendship between related persons is broken; a
relative is cast out of a family]. Pehea kō piko?
How is your navel [a facetious greeting avoided by some
because of the double meaning]? 2. Summit or top of a
hill or mountain; crest; crown of the head; crown of the
hat made on a frame (pāpale pahu); tip of the
ear; end of a rope; border of a land; center, as of a
fishpond wall or kōnane board; place where a stem
is attached to the leaf, as of taro. 3. Short for
alopiko. I ka piko nō 'oe, lihaliha (song),
at the belly portion itself, so very choice and fat. 4.
A common taro with many varieties, all with the leaf
blade indented at the base up to the piko,
junction of blade and stem. 5. Design in plaiting the
hat called pāpale 'ie. 6. Bottom round of a
carrying net, kōkō. 7. Small wauke
rootlets from an old plant. 8. Thatch above a door.
'Oki i ka piko, to cut this thatch; fig. to dedicate
a house. Wehewehe. |
168 =
7 * 24 could be another way to (symbolically) represent the length
of the path Sun had to journey in order to reach Polynesia (the
centre of the world). Or maybe it really takes the Sun one week to
travel 1º. The beginning does not count when we measure time.
Where
is 'The Land of 8'? 8 * 24 = 192 and it should be at winter
solstice, when Sun does not travel. If The Land of 8 is described at
the end of the back side, then we can roughly translate the path of
the Sun to be 7 * 60 = 420 days (and the time cycle to be 8 * 60 =
480 days).
8 *
63 = 504, but one unit of time at the beginning has not been
counted. 8 * 64 = 8 * 8 * 8 = 512.
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Primarily Mount Meru
must be considered as located in the sky. The sky determines time and
Mount Meru therefore can be measured as 24 * (20 + 17) = 888.
888 - 576 = 312 =
13 * 24, a fact worthy of notice, because it is in the neighbourhood of 314
The central position is high
summer, the time when earth is very dry and devoid of water. The position is
20 * 24 = 480, where 20 is the total of fingers and toes and 24 is the
latitude of a tropic. The path to the equator is completed.
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