TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Having established a preliminary model for comparing a few of the old Egyptian images with similar ones in the rongorongo system we are now able to move on. Harpocrates, the Sun child at the horizon in the east, has a significant lock of hair which in form is not very different from some of the toki signs:

We can for instance compare with those in Ea1-24, Ga2-1 and Qa6-29:

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	Ea1-24	Ea1-25	Ea1-26	Ea1-27	Ea1-28	Ea1-29

	Ea1-30	Ea1-31	Ea1-32

			*450 = 3 150**
Ga1-29 (30)	Ga1-30	Ga2-1		Eb7-1	Eb7-2 (548)
94	95	96 = 64 + 32		547	*3 182½ + ½**


Qa6-26	Qa6-27	Qa6-28	Qa6-29 (234)	Qa6-30	Qa6-31
180		181 = 64 + 234 / 2		182

I think the S-formed hair lock was meant to show how the path of the sun leads him from the back side to the top of the front side, where he reemerges in full view. Hair is a characteristic of the back of the head.

'Dawn' in the east is where spring sun reemerges. Another (second) 'dawn' is reasonable to find in the 'blue world', which could explain tagata toki in Qa6-29. On Easter Island this 'blue world' must be north of the equator.

Egyptian images allow internal descriptions, but not so on Easter Island - only the outlines of the entities can be described in rongorongo glyphs. A corresponding sign had to be an outline sign and it must be on the left side (because Harpocrates had his lock on the right side of his head).

In the picture above his hair lock ends inside a double (2) hair band, and below comes his face. The hair band presumably signifies the Moon (cloth and 2 bands). Possibly it meant that spring sun was not to appear until after 2 months (or 2 fortnights).

In another picture of Harpocrates (from Wikipedia) his hairlock and his sucking on his index finger are even more accentuated:

If one finger is put into his mouth only 3 (excepting the thumb which is of another sort) remain visible. Sucking the index of the right hand implies that only the left arm is free. These numbers we can recognize: 3 refers to spring and Sun has only one 'leg' (here arm). In the rongorongo system arms become legs.

3 are also the number of rings around his right arm. They could indicate 3 doublemonths of autumn, but I guess they are expressing 3 periods of spring. The gesture with index finger into mouth presumably alludes to 'eating'. Harpocrates is hungry.

The hair lock is very prominent. The Serpentine sign of spring is still used in the Swedish yellow buns of December 13 (Lucia), which once was the time when Sun was turning around to begin his journey of ascent. Precession moves dates earlier.

Such a bun is called 'Lusse-katt' which means a 'cat' which is eaten at Lucia:

(picture from Wikipedia)

The bun in the picture has obviously been baked by someone who was unaware of the meanings of signs. The bun is not formed into S but into its opposite.

The black 'pupils' (raisins) indicate the dark central holes of the 'whirlpool' seen from north respectively from south. Dark Holes in the sky is no new discovery.

And finally, the summary page:

In this chapter it has been necessary to use a kind of 'cosmic frame' as a guide, which led to many extra pages.

The tagata toki glyph type, where tagata and toki are illustrated as a single entity, presumably was used in the rongorongo system to indicate the arrival of a new Sun Child early in the year, for instance as in Ga2-1:

		*450 = 3 150**
Ga1-30	Ga2-1 (32)		Eb7-1	Eb7-2 (548)
95	96 = 64 + 32		547	*3 182½ + ½**

Another kind of toki glyph (which we can name hipu toki) is located as glyph number 548 (counted from Ea1-1) in the Keiti text. It is aparently sometimes possible to use combinations of texts from different tablets in order to find clues to how glyphs should be understood. In Eb7-2 the basic figure is not tagata but hipu, which could mean the light arrives from a lower position.

Comparing with the iconography of the round Dendera zodiac we can contrast hipu toki with the Khnum figure carrying a henen (mattock):

Although it is a dark time (early in the year south of the equator) the happy result of digging in the earth is the arrival of progeny. The open arm gesture of the following goddess welcomes her new baby. From the perspective of Egypt it is a Moon child (we can see the two arms of the child).

From the perspective of Easter Island, on the other hand, it ought to be a Sun child which arrives in spring. Toki should be held high towards the sky, not low towards the earth. Sky and earth are separating and light will enter. The plane of the ecliptic is rising above the earth, which creates a 'yawn' in the sky. The dark 'primal embrace' is over.

From the beginning lines on side a of the Keiti tablet it is possible to guess what the different variants of toki mean, for instance:

	spring sun toki
Ea1-24
	next season has a less strong toki
Ea2-1
	when also this season is ending it means the single 'leg' of Sun (the elbow ornament) is complete
Ea2-13
	*the flat toki* indicates summer solstice, where next 'leg' is beginning**
Ea2-26
	vaero comes when sun leaves for his winter maid
Ea3-1
	the elbow ornament says the 2 periods of autumn are over
Ea3-12
	**toki alluds to the time of kava**
Ea3-30