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The last chapter among those predicted from the glyph catalogue is hura:

 

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

My prototype for hura has 4 'balls' in a crosswise configuration, and such is also the arrangement of hahe:

hahe hura

Maybe the arrangement is meant to depict the 4 cardinal directions. These do not have to be north, east, south, west, located in the corners of an imagined square form. The sun does not rise due north but somewhere in northeast (with the direction changing as the year advances).

... During his coronation year king Taufa'ahau Tupou IV advanced the theory that the Ha'amonga stones must have served a greater purpose than the more obvious function as a gateway. This proved the case when closer investigation revealed a secret mark on the lintel (= threshold) stone ...

On June 21st 1967 at dawn his majesty was present at this place and it was a thrilling moment when the sun rose at the exact point indicated by his interpretation of the lines etched on the great stone ...

At hahe also the ancient Mnajdra stone temple (on Malta) was mentioned. There it was the lines of the solstices which formed X.

The crosswise configuration is similar between hahe and hura, but in hahe we can see 'sun-beams' while in hura the connecting lines are like tightly drawn strings. I guess these 'strings' indicate 'nighttime', when Sun is 'absent'.

The circular forms (or rather oval - like eggs) are drawn with simple circumferences, while the crosswise henua signs in hahe presumably allude to the 'enlightened' areas (of 'broad daylight'). Inside the oval forms we cannot see - what happens inside eggs is mysterious.

 

 

We will start our study of hura glyphs by looking on the front side of Mamari:

25 46
Ca1-26 Ca3-22 Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25
Ca4-1 (77) Ca4-2 Ca4-3

I noticed 'balls on strings' in Ca4-1 and decided to classify this glyph as hura. And because of its closeness I then added also Ca4-2 as such an example. But had it had not been so close - and thereby obviously in some way related to hura in Ca4-1 - I maybe would not have done so.

Rogo in Ca3-25 and other circumstances (for instance hau tea with Janus eyes in Ca4-3) show us that the time is the beginning of the solar year. The 'nut' in Ca1-26 is beginning to sprout in Ca4-2.

Possibly the complex picture in Ca4-2 is meant to show what happens down on earth once Sun has began to move again. If so, then the preceding phase should be light returning in the sky, which might be the message in Ca4-1.

 

 

These are my hura glyphs in Mamari:

Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 Ca5-14
Ca13-8 Cb6-19 Cb6-20 Cb6-21 Cb7-18 Cb12-23

The glyph type is rare and only in Ca5-14 is there a clear case of hura. Yet it has additional signs, the form is slightly irregular. The top left 'ball' is larger than the rest.

Furthermore the place where the 'string' is attatched to the 'ball' is where we expect it to be at left in the glyph, but for the pair of 'balls in front the position has been 'pushed forward'. Maybe it means Ca5-14 stands at a border line where what comes in front is different from what has been.

The pair of 'balls' in front appear to be more heavy than those at left, more mature.

 

 

At moko it was stated that the last 4 glyphs in line Ca4 were to be read together with those at the beginning of line Ca5. There are 12 glyphs which seem to form a group:

Ca4-26 Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29
Ca5-1 Ca5-2 Ca5-3 Ca5-4
Ca5-5 (110) Ca5-6 Ca5-7 Ca5-8

I have redmarked 6 of them which form 'parallel' triplets. We must notice, though, that the left sign (rakau) in Ca5-5 is the same as the glyph which marks the 'end of Old Sun':

end of Old Sun 4 black nights birth of New Sun
Ca4-20 Ca4-21 Ca4-22 Ca4-23 Ca4-24 Ca4-25

Therefore the 'story' in line Ca4 continues in line Ca5. The number of 'feathers' is 6 + 6 = 12 on rakau but 5 + 5 = 10 in the sign at right. Maybe it means the season of Sun lies ahead.

We can read 5-5 (in Ca5-5) as 5 * 5 = 25 (Saturn) or we can possibly read 5 + 5 = 10 (Sun) - or maybe we should read both - the time of change from the old year to the new year is still the subject.

The number of 'feathers' in Ca4-25 is 5 + 5. Or maybe it is 6 + 5 = 11 in order to indicate 'one more' (year). In Ca5-5 the ordinal number of the glyph counted from Ca1-1 is 110 = 11 * 10, and the following glyph is a tamaiti (where 5 + 6 = 11 and where 5 * 6 = 30).

Assigning planetary colours we can see that the little child (tamaiti) comes in Monday:

Ca4-26 Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29
Ca5-1 Ca5-2 Ca5-3 Ca5-4
Ca5-5 (110) Ca5-6 Ca5-7 Ca5-8

The same tamaiti in Ca4-27 is also in Monday, and the distance from one to the other is 8 glyphs. This would not have been possible unless the new glyph line began in between.

The great open mouths and lean bodies of the mago pair at the end of line Ca4 is in contrast with the smaller mouths and more well fed bodies of the second mago pair. Also Metoro noticed the difference, because he said kua vaha te mago erua (opens the mouth the pair of sharks) respectively simply erua mago (second shark pair).

We know from earlier what it means: the young ones are hungry but not those who have reached maturity (zenith). In other words, Moon (8 and double 'faces') will turn around between the pairs of mago:

Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29
Ca5-1 Ca5-2 Ca5-3 (108) Ca5-4 Ca5-5
Ca5-6 Ca5-7 Ca5-8

Venus is in Ca5-3 (where 5 * 3 = 15 presumably refers to full moon) and the design seems to show the face of full moon as a separate entity at the top end. Number 108 is famous, cfr e.g. at honu.

 

 

In order to reach 20 another 8 glyphs must then be added and the 18th glyph among the 20 is our hura glyph:

Ca5-9 Ca5-10 Ca5-11
Ca5-12 Ca5-13 Ca5-14 Ca5-15 Ca5-16

The hura day is connected with Mars and in the following 'fire bird' we can imagine the 'new fire' rising in the sky.

Manu rere hetuu (Ca5-15) is glyph number 120 on side a, and because 5 * 15 = 75 = 300 / 4 we can guess the time could be spring equinox, the time when the 'fire bird' (Sun) returns to make summer. Maybe he will stay for 7 months, because there are 7 'feathers' at right in Ca5-16. With those 6 at left we can count for instance to 364 / 13 = 28 and 7 * 28 = 196. Number 169 is similar to 196 and 169 + 196 = 365, i.e. 13 * 13 + 7 * 28 = 365.

Saturn in Ca5-11 has a great marama formed like the waning moon. Saturday is the last day in a week and therefore I have separated Ca5-9--11 from Ca5-12--16.

Monday (Ca5-13) is glyph number 4 * 29.5 = 118 (= 472 / 4). We can compare with the great 'midnight' henua in day 30:

Ca1-19 Ca1-20 Ca1-21 Ca1-22 Ca1-23 Ca1-24 Ca1-25
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 Ca2-5 Ca2-6 (32)

There are 88 days from it to henua in Ca5-13:

84
Ca2-4 (30) Ca2-5 Ca2-6 Ca5-12 Ca5-13
88

Counted from the 'nut' in Ca1-26 we will reach 91 days at maitaki, counted from Ca2-1 it will be 90 days:

89
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 Ca5-12 (117)
91 (= 7 * 13)

 

 

A fairly good case has now been argued for hura in Ca5-14 marking spring equinox:

Ca5-12 Ca5-13 Ca5-14 Ca5-15 Ca5-16

But we can do better. Metoro said kua haga te mea ke at Ca5-14, which may be translated as 'the harbour (haga) has been reached (kua haga) for mea ke'. The term mea ke probably refers to winter solstice which the glyph type mea ke seems to illustrate:

mea ke

There are 392 glyphs on side a and if we think the new year should begin with Ca2-1, then the year will be 365 + a fraction of a day (a not completely drawn glyph):

*Ca14-18 (381) *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20
355 356 357
*Ca14-21 *Ca14-22 *Ca14-23
358 359 360
*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26
361 362 363
*Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
364 365 392 - 26 = 366
Cb1-1 Cb1-2 Cb1-3

But there are several alternative ways to count, e.g. to begin from glyph number 30:

84
Ca2-4 (30) Ca2-5 Ca2-6 Ca5-12 Ca5-13
88
*Ca14-18 *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20 *Ca14-21 (384)
351 352 353 384 - 30 = 354 = 12 * 29.5
*Ca14-22 *Ca14-23 *Ca14-24 *Ca14-25
355 356 357 358
*Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
359 360 361 392 - 30 = 362

13 * 29.5 = 383.5 and possibly this explains the strange picture in *Ca14-21.

The oblique bottom end of henua in *Ca14-24 is oppositely oriented compared to the oblique bottom end in Ca5-16. The meaning of this obliquity sign seems to be to indicate the direction of change in light (diminishing respectively increasing).

265
Ca5-12 Ca5-13 Ca5-14 Ca5-15 Ca5-16 (121) *Ca14-24 (387)

121 = 11 * 11 and 387 = 9 * 43. A confirmation that we have counted in a correct way (i.e. from Ca5-16) is given by 38 * 7 = 266. This number hardly means a summer which stretches for 266 days, instead it is presumably to be read as a sign, possibly indicating that '26' (the number connected with the Sun King) is ruling for 6 months. If the number of nights in a month is counted as 20 according to Moon, then the number of days in a month could be counted as 26 according to Sun.