TRANSLATIONS
The glyphs surrounding Aa2-7:
Next comes the glyphs around Aa6-43:
Impossible or not, we can always try. A quick count through the glyphs of R results in the following table:
226 + 194 = 420 (and I admit that I at first reached 421). But 7 * 60 is a better number. Ra2-20 will then be glyph number 50 and Ra2-21 number 51. I imagine that Ra2-22 (in an intact glyph line) must have position zero. Although R is a rather short text it appears that we maybe should count 2 glyphs per day also in R. But the glyphs seem to suggest that we should count 3! 420 / 3 = 140. When Metoro said heke mata at Aa6-36 and Aa6-38 in contrast to heke nuku at Aa6-34, we can identify the probable main reason being the difference perceived at bottom left in the three glyphs. Nuku seems to imply the dark earth, while mata could mean light from fiery eyes:
On the other hand the light fingers are turned downwards - not possible to see from above. Maybe pare alludes to parera, the sea bottom. Down under the apron (pareu), in the crotch of mother earth (at Mahuika), everything is being dissolved. A very straight henua at the bottom is a reality, though not possible to see. 'Ghosts' are open, very straight glyphs are real but invisible, normal glyphs are in between - they have closed perimeters but are not perfect. The ua billows at the top are drawn horizontally, because they describe the sea waves (not the vertical rain water).
In Aa6-38 the middle 'finger' is drawn vertical, a sign functioning like a demarcation line. 6 * 38 = 228 = 12 * 19. But we have located Aa6-38 at 454 = day 227. Maybe we should start counting 2 glyphs earlier than at Aa1-1. This is an important question and we should visualize the situation. I happened to notice that in S there is a sequence of glyphs including tagata pau:
I have not registered Sa3-126 as hipu in my glyph catalogue and will do so now. |