TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The number of hahe glyphs is quite limited and we must therefore take the opportunity to also look at the parallel H and P sequences of glyphs. But let us begin by looking at the most relevant part of the Q text, i.e. the first 12 days from the beginning of line Qb2:

284 - 64 = 220

Qb2-1

Qb2-2

Qb2-3

Qb2-4

284

285

Qb2-5

Qb2-6

Qb2-7

Qb2-8

Qb2-9

Qb2-10

286

287

288

Ga8-20 (224)

Qb2-11

Qb2-12

Qb2-13

Qb2-14 (452)

289

290

Qb2-15

Qb2-16

Qb2-17

Qb2-18

Qb2-19

Qb2-20

291

292

293

462 / 2 = 231

Qb2-21

Qb2-22

Qb2-23

Qb2-24 (462)

294

295

Comparing with the corresponding text in G we can there see 14 days instead of 12 days:


Ga8-16 (220)	Ga8-17	Ga8-18	Ga8-19	Ga8-20 (224)

Ga8-21	Ga8-22	Ga8-23	Ga8-24	Ga8-25

Ga8-26	Gb1-1 (231)

Day number 288 (counted from winter solstice) is represented by manu rere in Ga8-20 and the uplifted wing at right possibly corresponds to the uplifted arm of tagata in Qb2-14:


Ga8-20 (224)	Qb2-13	Qb2-14 (452)
288 = 224 + 64	290 = 452 / 2 + 64

We recognize the uplifted 'wing' from the chapter on tagata:

5				In Eb3-1 the man with a 'barren' hand illustrates winter, which will give way for the summer half of the year. Eb3-4 describes the turning around of the sun canoe - i.e. at the beginning of period 5 winter still rules.
	Eb3-1	Eb3-2	Eb3-3

	Eb3-4	Eb3-5	Eb3-6

18				In Eb5-4 the man illustrates summer, which will give way for the winter half of the year. Eb5-7 describes the turning around of the sun canoe - i.e. at the beginning of period 18 summer still rules.
	Eb5-4	Eb5-5	Eb5-6

	Eb5-7	Eb5-8	Eb5-9

Indeed, Eb5-4 seems to illustrate how summer is 'fully grown'. Rogo in Eb5-8 has no legs and will not move any further, in contrast to the running figure in Eb3-5.

We can count:

326	69					79		149
326	69	Eb3-1 (396)	Eb3-2	Eb3-3	Eb3-4 (399)	79	Eb5-4 (479)	149

If we relocate the last glyph on side b to the beginning of side a (as when counting in G), Rei in Eb3-4 will be glyph number 400 and tagata in Eb5-4 will be number 480. From maitaki in Eb5-5 to the end there will then remain 228 glyphs.

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In H the parallel text beyond the vanishing Rogo (Qb2-10) extends from *Ha11-28 and forward. There are 14 glyphs to consider:


*Ha11-28	*Ha11-29	*Ha11-30	*Ha11-31	*Ha11-32	*Ha11-33

*Ha11-34	*Ha11-35	*Ha11-36	*Ha11-37	*Ha11-38	*Ha11-39
		*Obviously Ha11-30--31 correspond to day 290 in Q and to day 288 in G (in both cases counted from winter solstice by adding 64 days fetched from the end of side b).**
*Ha11-40	*Ha11-41

The glyphs from *Ha11-7 to *Ha11-27 cannot be seen, the area is destroyed by fire. Yet, the number of glyphs for H can anyhow be restored as 648 + 648 = 1296. Or - even better - as 666 + 648 = 1314.

*Ha11-31 is glyph number 600 counted from Ha1-1 (including the estimated number of glyphs in the area destroyed by fire), which hardly is a coincidence. If we divide 600 by 3 it becomes 200, which can be read as half 400.

On the other hand it seems possible to alternatively divide by 2 and relate *Ha11-30--31 to day number 300 (suggesting 300 days from winter solstice). Either alternative leads to a point in time which implies the disappearance of spring sun, but day 300 is more in harmony with what we can read in G and Q:


Ga8-20 (224)	Qb2-13	Qb2-14 (452)	*Ha11-30	*Ha11-31 (600)
288 = 224 + 64	290 = 452 / 2 + 64		600 / 2 = 300

It should be noticed that Qb2-10--11 in every way is the opposite of *Ha11-28:


Qb2-10	Qb2-11	*Ha11-28

It is as if the Rogo figure has been drawn clockwise from bottom up and ending at the waist at right without being completed. The complex glyph in *Ha11-28, on the other hand, seems to have been drawn clockwise from the extreme right and ending above the waist at left.

666 is the number of the beast and we have found it in Tahua (cfr at maitaki):


Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69	Aa6-70
i to moa	ko te vai hopu o te moa	*e he goe kua moe*	ki to vaha o to ika mea	o te maitaki	kua noho te ariki	e mago

I have not listed Aa6-67 as an example of hahe, but the top part does indeed qualify as such. Instead I saw the top part as an example of ika hiku.

In order to change 648 (the estimated number of glyphs on side a of H) into 666 it is only necessary to calculate how many glyphs there could have been in line Ha12 if the wood had been intact:

Earlier, when I estimated the number of glyphs on side a to be 648, I had considered only how those glyph lines with a gap in the glyph flow should be counted. But in line Ha12 no glyphs arrive beyond the destroyed surface:

a1	50	50	burnt area could have contained the number of glyphs below	50	b1	*51 (?)	51
a2	58	108		108	b2	48	99
a3	52	160		160	b3	47	146
a4	56	216		216	b4	51	197
a5	59	275		275	b5	57	254
a6	64	339	*5	344	b6	54	308
a7	48	387	*3	395	b7	50	358
a8	46	433	*8	449	b8	*54 (?)	412
a9	40	473	*13	502	b9	65	477
a10	49	522	*18	569	b10	67	544
a11	36	558	*22	627	b11	53	597
a12	*21 (?)	579	*18 (?)	666	b12	*51 (?)	648
sum	*666 (?)				sum	*648 (?)

Adding an estimated number of 18 glyphs changes 648 into 666. But 18 is purely a guess. The parallels in P and Q have different numbers of glyphs:

P	Q
19	26 (35)

Yet, 19 in P is close to 18, while the short Q text must be considered as a less likely candidate to rely on.

Furthermore, 18 in the absent space can suggest half 36, which would fit nicely with 666 + 648 = 1314, because 13 * 14 = 182. Both 182 and 180 are measures for half a year.

It must also be mentioned that probably the surface destroyed by fire was there in front of the eyes of whoever incised the glyphs, so much can be ascertained by considering which portions of the text he assigned to the blackened area. These portions are not random but - which can be seen from the parallel Q and P texts - were 'left in the dark' because the events told of were of a 'dark character'.

And we cannot neglect the sum 579 + 648 = 1227 (which refers to those glyphs which - according to my estimates - once indeed were visible on the tablet). If we divide by 3 the result is recognizable:

1227 / 3 = 409


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

Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3	Gb7-4

The not completed circumference of Rogo possibly should be read to mean that summer stolstice is at the top, where the head with 2 eyes is. From there the journey of sun goes downwards, maybe for 60 days. 180 + 60 = 240.