TRANSLATIONS

Ka1-24

Ka4-8 (75)

Kb4-13 (166)

Kb5-15 (187)

52 = 4 * 13

164 = 8 * 8 + 100

TRANSLATIONS

In K there is an interesting maitaki glyph to study:

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29	Kb4-10	Kb4-11	Kb4-12	Kb4-13 (166)	Kb4-14
30
30	Kb4-15	Kb4-16	Kb4-17	Kb4-18	Kb4-19

Its ordinal number (counted from Ka1-1) is 166, in agreement with my suggestion that 166 is of great importance, similar with 266 (Te Pou at 9 * 29.5) and 366 (Hanga Te Pau):

182	168	14	28
182	167	15	30
182	166	16	32

Kb4-13 has a variant of the hand gesture 'waving goodbye' connected to maitaki. Probably it means that the 'season of maitaki' is ending. The similar hand gesture in p.m. supports this interpretation:

Aa1-30

There are only a few maitaki glyphs in K, and one can speculate how they are ordered.

The long Tahua text probably is using 2 glyphs per day, and maybe in the short K text there are 2 days per glyph. Twins are lucky. There is a.m. and p.m., there is one calendar for the daylight and another (separate) for the night time. The night is divided by midnight into two halves, Matariki is is likewise a pair, i nika and i raro, etc.

The 'odd' text then becomes G, with 1 glyph per day. But in G it is quite evident that the text on side a is different from that on side b, and that way there are twins.

If K also has 1 glyph per day, it would result in a calendar which is covering only half the year. Or it should be read twice - not likely. Therefore, the main question to consider is whether it is a text with 2 days per glyph or not. If it has 2 days per glyph, then the end of the text can be seen to have a non-existent glyph where we would expect to find the last days of the year (365-366):

	...
Kb5-10		Kb5-12	Kb5-13	Kb5-14	Kb5-15	Kb5-16	Kb5-17
364		368	370	372	374	376	378

8 'feathers' in haú (Kb5-14) presumably does not mean that we should count 372 / 8, because the result (46.5) is not a whole number. Instead, we could count 372 / 31 = 12 (i.e. Kb5-14 could show the end of a year with 12 months à 31 days).

Kb5-12 could be the first glyph beyond the end of the solar year measured as 365.25 days. 5-12 is perhaps alluding to 5 * 12 = 60, and maybe 368 is to be read as 360 and 8. The double 'eyes' probably indicate a 'Janus situation'. The glyph resembles Ga1-26 in general outline:


Ga1-26	Kb5-12

In the complex Kb5-15 the structure in the center is similar to that in Eb6-1:


Eb5-35	Eb6-1	Eb6-2

Assembling the main maitaki glyphs in K it comes last:

The total number of glyphs in the text, 192, will then be equal to 164 + 28. However, the table illustrates but one of several possible alternatives.

It is quite possible, for instance, to maintain that the parallel with G makes it obvious that only half the year is covered by the text in K. The problem of balancing the text by incorporating twins can be solved as in G - by dividing the text into 'halves':

	22		50
Ka1-1		Ka1-24		Ka4-8 (75)
23		*52 = 4 13**

90		20		4
	Kb4-13 (166)		Kb5-15		Kb5-20 (192)
*91 = 7 13**		*26 = 2 13**

13 * 13 = 169, a 'square' measuring out the important spring, and we can add this alternative to our table:

182	169	13	26
182	168	14	28
182	167	15	30
182	166	16	32

The odd number 23 can be motivated by a wish to reach 75 in the first 'half' of the calendar. With 300 as the number of days for the sun, a quarter is 75 days. 26 is less of a problem, because it is the number for the last residence (Hanga Moria One) of the sun king. The last residence is also hinted at by adding 7 and 2 to reach 9 (multiples of 13).

91 is a quarter of 364, and added to the first quarter (75) we have 166, leaving 26 glyphs for Hanga Moria One.

Only 16 of them are necessary to reach 182, though, and we have 10 glyphs 'outside' the regular calendar, those beyond henua in Kb5-10:

	...
Kb5-10 (182)	...	Kb5-12 (184)	Kb5-13	Kb5-14

Kb5-15	Kb5-16	Kb5-17	Kb5-18 (190)	Kb5-19	Kb5-20

In Kb5-18 there are 2 'feathers' at left and 3 at right. Maybe they refer to the maitaki system of 'stones':


Ka1-24	Ka4-8	Kb4-13	Kb5-15

In Ka1-24 we can read 4 'months' and in Ka4-8 there are 6 'months, 2 respectively 3 'stones'. In Kb5-15 there are only 3 'months' - or rather 'quarters' - the 4th is converted into an arm with hand downwards (no light). Rearranging the glyphs (Kb5-15 is necessary for generating the new fire) we can see that 2 'stones' may refer to the 'night' of the 'year':

	4			22
Kb5-15		Kb5-20	Ka1-1
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That is, the structure of the central regular calendar can be 'mapped' like this:

	50		90
Ka1-24		Ka4-8 (75)		Kb4-13 (166)
*52 = 4 13**			*91 = 7 13**

52 and 91 should not be added, because 52 + 91 = 143 (an ugly number) and there should be twins.

In Kb5-18 (with 5 * 18 = 90) the 3 'feathers' at right presumably refers to what we can see in Kb5-19, next generation. The 2 'feathers' at left could refer to the 'twins'.

50 days at the beginning of the year (the glyphs between Ka1-24 and Ka4-8) sun is 'absent', then there is a quarter (90 days) when he is 'present'. It resembles the 14 days of waxing moon.

6 * 31 = 186 is at Kb5-14 and we have confirmation by haú. Beyond 31 there must come a dark time, and 6 * 32 = 192.

As to the meaning of maitaki, it may primarily be 'the light of the sun' (not the Pleiades). 166 could mean the 1st 'sun season', leaving aside (outside the short K text) the following 100 days of the 2nd 'sun season' (up to Te Pou), and also the 3rd 'sun season' (up to Hanga Te Pau). If so, then Ka3-20 (with 3 * 20 = 60) refers to the 'zero season of the sun', which explains why there is a mea ke sign at the top:


Ka3-15	Ka3-16	Ka3-17	Ka3-18	Ka3-19	Ka3-20 (66)	Ka3-21