TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Now let us return to Tahua. To get a grip on the structure of the text (in order to be able to locate where the 3 hahe glyphs have their proper environments) it is necessary to begin at the beginning, where the new fire is ignited (cfr at kava). This happens 53 glyphs before the end of side a:

3			53			520		752
	Aa8-30	Aa8-31		1334	Ab1-1 (1)		522		1275
*2 29**				*522 = 18 29**			*754 = 26 29**
*1334 = 46 29**

The viri glyphs obviously define the basic structure of the text, from the first viri at Ab1-1 (smaller that the other viri glyphs) to the last viri at Aa8-26 (which is cut off at the top end). In Keiti, we have seen, there are 106 (= 2 * 53) + 522 = 628 glyphs. There is a kind of basic resemblance between the 20 * 29 = 580 first glyphs in Tahua and the 200 * 3.14 = 628 glyphs of Keiti.

6 * 28 = 168 and 5 * 80 = 400.

Moreover, 5 complete Venus cycles amount to 2,920 (= 8 * 365) days, which we quickly will connect with 20 * 29 (because 20 * 29 = 29 * 20). Although 20 * 29 = 580 and the Venus cycle is 2,920 / 5 = 584 days the difference of 4 days is no great obstacle. After all there are 4 quarters in a year and 4 days must be added to 4 * 90 in order to reach 364.

By the way, 522 = half 1044 (the ordinal number of Hb9-53 counted from Ha1-1).

We have learned from other texts that there should be 64 days (= 364 - 300) added at the beginning of the 'front side'. In Tahua we should therefore, reasonably, find 64 days at the end of side a (rather than those 2 * 29 above). This idea must be investigated.

Counting from the last viri (Aa8-26) of the text we should notice a vaha kai at position 16 (the number we know is representing the completion of a sequence):


Aa8-26 (0)	Aa8-27	Aa8-28	Aa8-29

Aa8-30	Aa8-31	Aa8-32	Aa8-33

Aa8-34	Aa8-35	Aa8-36	Aa8-37

Aa8-38	Aa8-39	Aa8-40	Aa8-41

Aa8-42 (16)

There are 85 glyphs in line Aa8, i.e. 43 glyphs follow beyond vaha kai. 85 - 64 = 21 indicates where we should look for the suggested glyph at the beginning of calendar time:


Aa8-2	Aa8-3	Aa8-4	Aa8-5	Aa8-6	Aa8-7

Aa8-8	Aa8-9

Aa8-10	Aa8-11	Aa8-12	Aa8-13	Aa8-14	Aa8-15

Aa8-16	Aa8-17

Aa8-18	Aa8-19	Aa8-20	Aa8-21	Aa8-22	Aa8-23

Aa8-24	Aa8-25

8 * 21 = 168 and at right of this hanau there is a henua sign. How else could the creator of the text have expressed the birth of the season of spring light? Though this season is still not visible, the following puo glyph (Aa8-22) says so much.

By comparing with Rogo in Gb6-26 - where 26 identifies the glyph corresponding (in a certain sense) to the last viri Aa8-26 - we can identify Gb6-21 as likewise corresponding to Aa8-21:


Gb6-17	Gb6-18	Gb6-19	Gb6-20

Gb6-21	Gb6-22	Gb6-23	Gb6-24

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28

Gb6-20 (where 6 * 20 = 120) is where time in a sense is ending. The central henua is of the 'midnight' type and 3 hanging 'mata' are on each side.

From the last viri to the end of side a there are 85 - 26 = 59 glyphs, presumably indicating 2 lunar months. In G the same measure possibly begins with moa in Gb7-1 because 471 - 412 = 59:


Gb7-1 (412)	Gb7-2	Gb7-3 (414)	Gb7-4

Aa8-29	Aa8-30	Aa8-31	Aa8-32

The glyph lines in G are shorter than those of A, and therefore the kava (at left) and hua (with 6 feathers) will coincide with tamaiti, also a kind of little fruit, hua (in Gb7-3).

14 * 29.5 = 413 (Tama) at Gb7-2 is the final of a 'greater fortnight' (7 * 2 = 14) cycle. A new 'fire' must then be born (though according to Aa8-31 still hidden). Maybe we should count 472 - 412 = 59 (leaving the preceding moa to mark from where to count 60).

The pattern with a table of 8-fold times 3 = 24 glyphs was determined by me by cause of having already presented the last viri and the following glyphs in an earlier page. Otherwise perhaps this table would have been better:

19
	Aa8-2	Aa8-3	Aa8-4	Aa8-5	Aa8-6

	Aa8-7	Aa8-8	Aa8-9

	Aa8-10	Aa8-11	Aa8-12	Aa8-13	Aa8-14

	Aa8-15	Aa8-16	Aa8-17	Aa8-18	Aa8-19	Aa8-20
13
	Aa8-21	Aa8-22	Aa8-23	Aa8-24	Aa8-25	Aa8-26

	Aa8-27	Aa8-28	Aa8-29	Aa8-30	Aa8-31	Aa8-32	Aa8-33

Maybe the sequence of planets begins anew not only with number 21 but also when a viri has been reached.

Mars is eliminated from position 21 by counting anew from there and likewise he seems to be eliminated also from position 26 (the last station of the sun king). Only at the exceptional viri in Aa5-7 is Mars given a place, but then only to have a crack in his back:


Ab1-1	Ab7-26	Aa5-7 (1004)	Aa8-26
Mercury	Moon	Mars	Moon