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TRANSLATIONS

The link 'a pair of separate pages':

We should start from the beginning of glyph line Ha10 - because glyph lines apparently are significant - but even better is to find out what the end of line Ha9 might tell us. I have below used as number of glyphs (counted from Ha1-1) the sum of those which are visible and those which ought to have been there in the burnt areas of the tablet (cfr at hahe):


*Ha9-29	*Ha9-30	*Ha9-31 (480)	*Ha9-32	*Ha9-33	*Ha9-34
480 / 3 = 160			161

*Ha9-35	*Ha9-36	*Ha9-37	*Ha9-38	*Ha9-39	*Ha9-40
162			163

*Ha9-41	*Ha9-42	*Ha9-43 (492)
164

Henua ora in *Ha9-31 has glyph number 480 = 20 * 24, which presumably is significant. Day number 160 is equal to twice 80, the day number at Ha5-24, and 20 * 24 is 15 more multiples of 24 than 5 * 24.

For the following manu rere we can count 9 * 32 = 288 = 2 * 144 = 8 * 36 = 16 * 18. In G day number 288 is at manu rere in Ga8-20 (where 224 + 64 = 288), and also here we can count to 160 (this time by way of 8 * 20):


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

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

Ga8-26	Gb1-1 (231)	Gb1-2	Gb1-3	Gb1-4

At hahe it was noticed that manu rere with uplifted wing in Ga8-20 apparently corresponds to the pair *Ha11-30--31:


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

But we should divide the number of glyph by 3 in the H text. 600 / 3 + 64 = 264 and 600 / 3 + 59 = 259. The latter alternative might be the correct way to count, because 259 - 160 = 99 (and 99 * 29½ is very close to 8 * 365 days = 5 Venus cycles):

...	...
*Ha11-26	*Ha11-27	*Ha11-28	*Ha11-29	*Ha11-30	*Ha11-31 (600)
258			600 / 3 + 59 = 259 = 160 + 99

*Ha11-32	*Ha11-33	*Ha11-34	*Ha11-35	*Ha11-36	*Ha11-37
260			261

Ika hiku in *Ha11-32 has a 'leg' sign at top left which presumably has the same meaning as in pare in *Qa2-40:


*Ha11-32 (601)	*Qa2-40 (63)

And 260 for the day number at *Ha11-32 is not far from that at Ga7-27:

	258
Gb6-26 (1)	258	Ga7-26 (260)	Ga7-27

7 * 26 (cfr Rogo in Ga7-26) = 182, and if we add 59 it becomes 241 ('one more' than 240). If we add 59 to 64 / 2 (at *Qa2-40) it becomes 91, which could refer to the end of the 1st quarter of the year. But with 91 equal to 90 + 1 it will also carry the meaning of a new beginning. The Mermaid's Purse (ika hiku) is the egg case of a shark, and 601 = 600 + 1 and 261 = 260 + 1.

I have identified ua in *Ha9-43 as the last glyph in a sequence not only because of its day number (= 364 - 200) but also - and foremost - because of the following maitaki glyph:


*Ha9-44	*Ha9-45	*Ha9-46	*Ha9-47	*Ha9-48	*Ha9-49
165			166

*Ha9-50	*Ha9-51 (500)	*Ha9-52	*Ha9-53	Ha10-1	Ha10-2
167			168

Because I had noticed that the glyph which follows upon Ha5-24 is also a maitaki glyph:


Ha5-19	Ha5-20 (236)	Ha5-21	Ha5-22	Ha5-23	Ha5-24 (240)	Ha5-25

Day number 168 for the beginning of line Ha10 should be significant. For instance, there is a structure in E which is based on 168 (cfr at mauga):

	40			40
Eb3-8		Eb4-11	Eb4-12		Eb5-11
1		42	43		84
	40			40
Eb5-11		Eb6-17	Eb6-18		Eb3-8
84		125	126		167 (1)

The total number of glyphs in the calendar (167) is subdivided into 4 equally long sequences of glyphs if we use Eb3-8, the 'moon mauga' and the 4 central glyphs in the table above. 4 * 42 = 168, but Eb3-8 is counted twice ...

At viri number 168 was discovered to be present also in K. Its total number of glyphs, 192, can be perceived as divided into 24 + 168 (= 7 * 24), e.g. in this way:

9		73			73	...	9
	Ka2-10		Kb1-11	Kb1-12		*Kb5-11
	1		75	1		75
	150
168

And in G (cfr at ihe tau) number 168 is once again marking the end of a 'season of light':

28
	Ga6-24	Ga6-25	Ga6-26
	165	166	167

29
29	Ga6-27 (168)	Ga6-28	Ga6-29

In Mamari, though, number 168 is thought of as 6 * 28 (instead of 7 * 24) and in the calendar of the month it indicates the beginning of light (from Moon), not the end of light (from Sun):


Ca6-25	Ca6-26	Ca6-27	Ca6-28	Ca7-1
165	166	167	168	169

Twin glyphs indicate we are entering the 2nd phase of the cycle and 168 will then, presumably, be thought of as 6 * 28 (half a year with light delivered from Moon). Number 10 (of the glyph lines) indicates Sun has left, see for instance the twin tamaiti glyphs (Ha10-5--6) without mata:


*Ha9-50	*Ha9-51 (500)	*Ha9-52	*Ha9-53	Ha10-1	Ha10-2
167 = 231 - 64			168 = 504 / 3

Ha10-3	Ha10-4	Ha10-5	Ha10-6	Ha10-7	Ha10-8 (510)
169			170

When the glyph number reaches 500 a division by 3 results in 167, which will allude to 231 if we add 64 (or to 531 if we add 364).

If we instead count by the Moon we have to wait 5 more days:


Ha10-9	Ha10-10	Ha10-11
171

Ha10-12	Ha10-13	Ha10-14	Ha10-15	Ha10-16 (518)	Ha10-17
172 = 231 - 59 = 236 - 64			173

The very special atariki in Ha10-14 agrees with the other signs which indicate 'darkness'. And when we continue we can see that also ariki (without 'feathers') in Ha10-29 is a 'twin glyph':


Ha10-18	Ha10-19	Ha10-20	Ha10-21	Ha10-22	Ha10-23
174			175

Ha10-24	Ha10-25	Ha10-26	Ha10-27	Ha10-28	Ha10-29
176			177

In Ha10-2 we recognize a variant of the glyph type which we earlier identified as a sign of 'the primal close embrace' (cfr at vaero):

171
171	Aa2-28	Aa2-29	Aa2-30 (120)
*174 = 6 29**

			1156
Aa2-31 (121)	Aa2-32	Aa2-33	1156	Ab8-30 (1280)
*1160 = 40 29**

A sky without light (the central ragi sign in Aa2-31), where 231 (from 2-31) indicates the dark 2nd season has once again arrived (because 231 + 64 = 295 = 10 * 29.5). Apparently it is not the Spring Sun, though, but the Nuku (Autumn) who has left. The number pair 2-30 at nuku presumably alludes to the number of glyphs defined to be on the front side of the G tablet, and the day number can be counted as 120 / 3 + 59 = 99.

In contrast there is in Ha10-2 a henua ('earth bathing in sun light') which is 'embraced' (covered by a black cloth), and if we search for a glyph which could correspond to Ab8-30 we can guess it might be the pair Ha12-1--2, because of the design of the parallel glyphs Pb1-22 and Qb2-43:


Pb1-21	Pb1-22	Pb1-23	Pb1-24


Qb2-43	Qb2-44	Qb2-45	Qb2-46


*Ha11-56	*Ha11-57	*Ha11-58	Ha12-1 (628)	Ha12-2	Ha12-3
627 / 3 + 59 = 268			269

Ha12-4	Ha12-5	Ha12-6	Ha12-7	Ha12-8	Ha12-9
270			271

The day number at Ha10-2 could be 504 / 3 + 59 = 168 + 59 = 227, or it could be 168 + 64 = 232 (or it could be 168, or something else). We cannot know for sure. However the alternative 232 can be read as 230 + 2, where 2 agrees with the number of the glyph in line Ha10 (which probably indicates the beginning of the back side of the year):


*Ha9-50	*Ha9-51	*Ha9-52	*Ha9-53	Ha10-1	Ha10-2 (504)
231			504 / 3 + 64 = 232

The design and the numbers (10 * 2 = 20 and 50 * 4 = 200) suggest the time of the end of Spring Sun. But if we count distances we should be on more secure ground:

			123
*Ha9-53	Ha10-1	Ha10-2 (504)	123	Ha12-1 (628)	Ha12-2	Ha12-3
*Ha9-53	*128 = 8 16**

The distance between the 'embracing' signs is short, only 123 / 3 = 41 days ('one more' than 40 - as if alluding to some concept involving 40 - cfr 'one more' than 40 * 29 in Tahua, and at Aa2-30 we can also count to 40).

123 is similar to 12-3, and we have encountered 123 earlier, e.g. at kara etahi:

	547	440
Aa2-33 (123)			Ab6-37
	*988 = 19 52**

The glyph number at Ha12-1 is 628 which surely ought to represent 6 * 28 = 168, a sign of Moon. At manu kake the following interpretation was suggested for the beginning of line Ha12:


Ha12-6	Ha12-7	Ha12-8	*Ha12-9 (636)**	Ha12-10	Ha12-11

The distance from 400 to 636 is 236 (equal to 8 * 29.5):

	235
*Ha8-5 (400)**		*Ha12-9 (636)**
	236

It seems that the bird type manu kake could rule the time from new year to summer solstice. Then sun moves downwards, to his 2nd wife, his winter maid in the land of the fishes.

A gradually increasing darkness could be the reason behind having only one wing in Ha12-7 and two in Ha12-9 ...

... the two fish manu kake in H probably are standing at the beginning of the 'quarter' when sun arrives ...

The measure 123 at kara etahi (the bird with only one wing) could symbolize how from a 'singular' beginning there is a separation into 'two', which then of course must also create 'three' in order to enable counting of the separating part: 'From One comes Two, and from Two comes Three. From Three everything else will then be generated.' Cfr at vaero.

The bird with only one wing probably is Spring Sun. The Maori said Rehua (Antares, Ana-mua, the 'entrance pillar' of Tahiti) 'cooks' (ripens) all fruit, because it inaugurated summer when it rose in the morning sky. In Ha12-7 it is the left wing which is missing, maybe indicating how summer is in the past.

Let us try to pinpoint the beginning of a 'global map' of the H text:

1. We will primarily use the estimate 1296 as the number of glyphs.

2. And we will primarily use 3 glyphs per day.

3. And primarily the Moon should guide us, because She measures time. 59 * 3 = 177 glyphs could therefore, possibly, be the number to add from the end of side b to the beginning of the front side (side a).

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 (?)

The number of glyphs in lines Hb10-Hb12 is probably 67 + 53 + 51 = 171, and from this we can find Hb9-59 (glyph number 666 - 18 + 412 + 59 = 1119) to be the glyph we should first of all be interested in:


Hb9-48	Hb9-49	Hb9-50	Hb9-51	Hb9-52	Hb9-53
429			430

Hb9-54	Hb9-55	Hb9-56	Hb9-57	Hb9-58	Hb9-59 (1119)
1116 / 3 + 59 = 431			(1296 - 177) / 3 + 59 = 432

Hb9-60	Hb9-61	Hb9-62	Hb9-63	Hb9-64	Hb9-65 (1125)
1			2

Manu rere in Hb9-58 surely must be the last glyph of Saturday, but I will not repeat such arguments which have been presented earlier and which 'prove' it.

9 * 58 = 18 * 29 = 522 is not a bad choice for the last glyph in a cycle which probably incorporates both Sun and Moon. 29 is obviously the dark night of the month and 18 could be an expression pointing at 3 * 60 (the full measure for Spring Sun). 522 can be read as 5 (fire) together with 22 (= 7 * π) - i.e. the first 'circle' of the year is completed.

The glyph number for Hb9-58 is 1119 - 1 = 1118, which is equal to 2 * 559. In P the number of glyphs on side b is 559, and therefore there should be a message embedded in this number. If we read it as 5 * 59 it is obvious what it means, viz. 10 lunar months (295 days).

The following glyph, Hb9-59, will then surely be alluding to 9 * 59 = 531, which number the creator of H seems to have joined to 10 months à 29 days (once again a doubly dark measure):

290
	Ha10-29 (531)	Ha10-30	Ha10-31	Ha10-32 (534)
	*177 = 6 29.5**	534 / 3 = 178

This is the basic reason for adding 177 glyphs (59 days) from the end of side b to the beginning of the front side of H.

4. The other main alternative, to add 64 days (= 3 * 64 = 192 glyphs) means we have to move 5 days (15 glyphs) back in time:


Hb9-36	Hb9-37	Hb9-38	Hb9-39	Hb9-40	Hb9-41
430			431

Hb9-42	Hb9-43	Hb9-44 (1104)	Hb9-45	Hb9-46	Hb9-47
1104 / 3 + 64 = 368 + 64 = 432			1

Hb9-48	Hb9-49	Hb9-50	Hb9-51	Hb9-52	Hb9-53
2			3

Hb9-54	Hb9-55	Hb9-56	Hb9-57	Hb9-58	Hb9-59 (1119)
4			5

1296 - 1104 = 192 glyphs, which divided by 3 gives 64 days. And 1104 / 3 = 368 days, which agrees with the cycle of Q (with 736 = 2 * 368 glyphs):


*Qb5-35	*Qb5-36 (610)
369 = 610 / 2 + 64 = 305 + 64
day 1 (= 369 - 368)

46 is an important key number in Tahua where 1334 = 29 * 46 glyphs. If we combine 46 with 8 it becomes 8 * 46 = 368.

9 * 44 = 396 and 9 * 45 = 405, which maybe could allude to a year with 400 days ending between Hb9-44 and Hb9-45. A 400-day long year is not congruent with a lunar month measuring 29½ days. It should rather be the consequence of counting only 20 days in a month, thereby to generate a 'great' such month equal to 20 * 20 = 400 days.

5. Suppose there once upon a time was a calendar with 300 days for the year. If it then was discovered that other and more technically advanced people were using a calendar with 364 days, would it not be natural to search for a way to keep the old system while anyhow incorporating the new system?

The old calendar was presumably tightly knit together with the seasons and the stars, and therefore only one possibility was open - to put the extra 64 days outside the domain already occupied by the old calendar.

In order to have the end of the improved calendar where the year always had ended the extra 64 days must be put before the beginning of the old calendar.

The front side of the calendar could then begin where the old year always had begun and the year would end where it always had ended.

6. But maybe also 104 days could have been a measure used for adding to the beginning of the front side:


Hb7-26	Hb7-27	Hb7-28 (984)	Hb7-29	Hb7-30	Hb7-31
984 / 3 + 104 = 328 + 104 = 432			1

Hb7-32	Hb7-33	Hb7-34	Hb7-35	Hb7-36	Hb7-37
2			3

104 possibly should be regarded as the result of adding 40 to 64. In G, too, there may have been 40 days inserted between the end of one year and the next:

					40
Gb5-10 (364)	Gb5-11	Gb5-12	Gb5-13	Gb5-14 (368)	40	Gb6-26 (409)

Evidence from the glyphs themselves are contrary though, because the rising fish in Gb5-14 is the first in a quartet:


Gb5-13	Gb5-14 (368)	Gb5-15	Gb5-16	Gb5-17	Gb5-18	Gb5-19	Gb5-20

I conclude there is no reason to assume an inserted number of 40 days in G. Therefore we should not be secure in suggesting there are 40 inserted days in H.

7. However, the distance from vaha kai in Gb5-10 to the end of side b is 472 - 364 = 108 glyphs (days). This number is important in mythology, cfr at honu, and 260 + 108 = 368.

We should therefore search in H for evidence of adding 108 days from the end of side b to the front side:


Hb7-17	Hb7-18	Hb7-19 (975)	Hb7-20	Hb7-21	Hb7-22 (978)
1			2

Hb7-23	Hb7-24	Hb7-25	Hb7-26	Hb7-27	Hb7-28
3			4

The glyphs indicate that the 2nd 'circle' of the year is ending with tagata at Hb7-22 (where 7-22 alludes to the formula π = 22 / 7). But this means there are only 106 (= 2 * 53) days to the end of side b (and we can imagine 42 days have been added to 64).

Number 106 has appeared earlier, for instance (cfr at haga rave) as the distance from Gb5-13 to the end of side b:

	106
Gb5-12 (366)

Furthermore, at viri it was established that the beginning of side a of Keiti has 7 + 99 = 106 glyphs.

8. I have, though, accepted the idea of 108 days as also documented in H. My 'proof' is the extraordinary 'eloquence' expressed by the creator of H at the end of glyph line b6 and at the beginning of line b7, which is reaching its climax in Hb7-14--16:


Hb7-14	Hb7-15	Hb7-16 (972)
*972 / 3 + 108 = 324 (= 9 72 / 2) + 108 = 432**


Hb6-50	Hb6-51	Hb6-52	Hb6-53	Hb6-54	Hb7-1
426 = 318 + 108			427

Hb7-2	Hb7-3	Hb7-4	Hb7-5	Hb7-6	Hb7-7
428 = 320 + 108			429

Hb7-8	Hb7-9	Hb7-10	Hb7-11	Hb7-12	Hb7-13
430 = 322 + 108			431

In 324 (= 972 / 3) we can read 3 * 24 = 72, but we also receive a confirmation that we have counted the glyph number (972) at Hb7-16 correctly: 9 * 72 = 648 (the number of glyphs on each of the sides of the tablet), and 1296 / 4 = 324.

The regular solar year is 360 (= 5 * 72) days long and 288 = 4 * 72 must be added in order to reach 648. Therefore 1296 = 10 * 72 + 8 * 72 = 18 * 72 = 36 * 36 is a most elegant way to combine Sun (10 or 20) with Moon (8 or 16) into the space allotted by the piece of wood with a burnt area.