TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Thr prototype of my hupee glyph type is Qa6-32:

Qa6-32

The 2 'horns' at the top presumably are corresponding to the 2 at the bottom end. Left-right assymmetry is documented in the glyph, with a thicker 'horn' at top left than at top right. It could mean 'waning' is at left and 'growing' at right. Or an opposite rule could govern Sun compared to Moon.

6 * 32 = 192 appears to be a definite indication of a location at the end of the 'front side' (cfr K). With a rare glyph type we can be confident that the numbers will help us. The glyph number (counted from Qa1-1) seems to be 237.

From this we can imagine the picture to be a representation of the cosmic tree standing high with its crown indicating the apex (center) and its 2 main 'branches'.

Clearly the uninterrupted outline defines a complete single entity and at the bottom we can imagine the 'root' of the 'tree'. Possibly the same tree (perhaps the galaxy) observed from the other end of the year is depicted in the 20th glyph of K:

*Ka1-20

Here there is a single canopy with branches hanging down (the left one 'fatter') and the 'root' is not divided. When I classified all the glyphs in the rongorongo texts I could not find any proper place for *Ka1-20, but now it is evident that it could belong in the hupee group, and I will consequently add it there.


Qa6-17 (222)	Qa6-18	Qa6-19	Qa6-20	Qa6-21	Qa6-22

Qa6-23	Qa6-24	Qa6-25	Qa6-26	Qa6-27	Qa6-28

Qa6-29	Qa6-30	Qa6-31	Qa6-32 (237)	Qa6-33	Qa6-34

Qa6-35	Qa6-36	Qa6-37	Qa6-38	Qa6-39	Qa6-40
				an estimated number of 5 glyphs are 'missing' at the end of the line
Qa6-41	Qa6-42	Qa6-43	Qa6-44 (249)

So now there are 2 glyphs from the K text registered as hupee:


*Ka1-20	*Kb5-12

*Kb5-12 is no obvious hupee, though. But the bottom part made me classify it not only as nuku (because of its upper part) but also as hupee.

5 * 12 = 60 says the glyph stands at a borderline and if I have counted the glyphs of K correctly it is number 184.

184 - 20 = 164, and 16 * 4 = 64. While 18 * 4 = 72. Only 8 glyphs remain to the end at 192.

A single 'feather' at top left could refer to 'the single leg of Sun' but ahead there are 2 'feathers'. The left 'root' is fatter than the right one.

Much has been written about *Ka1-20 and *Kb5-12 earlier in various places in this dictionary, but the reader must search for himself. Here I only wish to quote from gagana, because of the evident connection between hupee and gagana in *Ka1-20 respectively *Ka1-21:


*Ka1-20	*Ka1-21	*Ka1-22	*Ka1-23	*Ka1-24
Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus

The bottom of gagana is like an upside down variant of the top of hupee at midsummer:


gagana	hupee

Maybe the hupee glyph type represents the 'the place aloft' ('poike' in the Maori dialect). The 'front side' of Easter Island should be its northern side (towards the equator and Sun) and its southern side should be the 'back side' (the side of Moon), and then Poike will be a place of change.

Mahatua (item 24 in the 2nd list of place names) could be the last 'station' before the 'turnover' of the 'tablet' from 'front' to 'back':

20 hanga ohiro a pakipaki renga.

21 ko roto kahi a touo renga.

22 ko papa kahi a roro.

23 ko puna a tuki a hauhau renga

24 ko ehu ko mahatua a piki rangi a hakakihikihi mahina

25 ko maunga teatea a pua katiki.

26 ko te hakarava a hakanohonoho.

27 ko hanga nui a te papa tata ika.

28 ko tongariki a henga eha tunu kioe hakaputiti.ai ka haka punenenene henua mo opoopo o tau kioe

Ehu we recognize. It means 'ashes', as when Metoro said ehu at the border between 'daytime' and 'night' in Tahua:


Aa1-37	Aa1-38
e ia toa tauuru - ehu	e ia toa tauuru - ehu

At a border line there is reason to mention both sides and the name of item 24 in the list does include, it seems, these 2 sides, not only by way of ko twice but also by a possible contrast between piki and kihi-kihi:

ko ehu - ko mahatua a piki rangi - a hakakihikihi mahina

It is important to understand what the 'Old Ones' may have meant and we need separate pages for such an effort.