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TRANSLATIONS
"Rain-making chiefs always build their villages on the slopes of a fairly high hill, as they no doubt know that the hills attract the clouds, and that they are, therefore, fairly safe in their weather forecasts." (The Golden Bough) At the top of the 'hill' there is a level place for the sun to 'rest in peace'. Before the flood running downhill the Rain God has two stations:   The Cosmic Serpent comes first and then he is inside mother earth, formed as a waxing moon crescent as observed north of the equator. Maybe Aa1-9--10 represents the same kind of twisting around as seen when the Rain God is climbing the upside down Cosmic Serpent, and inside the earth is equal to below the horizon in the west (Aa1-11--12):
Kuukuu was the planter according to Manuscript E, while hohora is to spread out clothes as a carpet, to unroll, and tetea is equal to having many descendants:
The 'fruit' which is bound up (herehua) is the sun himself who is being arrested by some hair of woman. It is the time for creating lots of new offspring. Take a seat on my mat, mister! Aa1-10 with en face face marks summer solstice. We should remember the flowing of skirt of Chalchiuhtlicue, where the sun man is seen twisted around:
 He is swimming in the flood and his coffin comes at right. Restating the beginning of Tahua:
Sun has 6 stations before summer solstice and 2 after, together being the perfect number 8. According to the G text interpreted as kuhane stations Te Pei and Te Pou are the only stations with Te beyond summer solstice. The Rain God has only one station for landing on earth and planting his feet. In Tahua there are 4 glyphs for 'earth'. Probably these 4 glyphs represent 'the 4 corners of earth'. There are 2 manu kapa in G, and they inhabit Te Pei:
234 = 13 * 18 = 9 * 26. The kava arm in the centre of Gb1-12 has a sun symbol as thumb. I decide to add Gb1-12 to the kava glyphs (I have missed it earlier). The other 3 kava glyphs come later on side b:
I happened to notice that the last 4 glyph lines (b5-b8) have together 118 = 4 * 29.5 glyphs, and therefore I tried to count from the beginning of this 'earth' (from Gb5-1). 'Fire' is illustrated only at Gb5-25.
The first 4 glyphs lines on side b together measure out 124 = 4 * 31 glyphs, hardly a coincidence. The first 'twin' quarter is sun oriented, the 2nd moon oriented. One 'thumb' in Gb1-12 and two in Gb5-25. A kind of tara is exhibited at bottom right in Ha6-1, at the beginning of noon:
Maybe the creator is alluding to tarai, deluge, thinking of the midsummer. The creator of Q ended his text at noon - you cannot describe what is under the surface. The Rain God has 6 stations from the beginning with him paddling quickly in a canoe until he once again comes to the sea:     These 6 Rain God stations correspond to Aa1-1--12, I believe. The rest of the 13 Rain God stations describe something else. The text in G is 472 / 29.5 = 16 months long. 4 + 4 of these come on side b, but we must count 31 days instead of 29.5 during the first 'quarter'. 4 * 31 + 4 * 29.5 = 124 + 118 = 242 days. The beginning of moon counting comes with Gb5-1:
Necessarily 354 must be a multiple of 29.5 and it is 12, we have reached Hatinga Te Kohe, where the walking stick of old sun breaks and he is falling on his face. There should be 8 months on side a too, is the immediate conclusion. But, we remember, One Tea is ending her nights before reachíng to the end of her measure 29.5:
In Gb8-1 a moon type of 'summer solstice' appears. At full moon comes the end. The last line (Gb8) has 30 glyphs. Therefore, 25 glyphs remain beyond One Tea. There are 230 glyphs on side a (including Gb8-30). If we add 230 + 24 (not counting Gb8-30 twice), we reach 254, as if alluding to 354. There ought to be a break also at 154 (= 7 * 22), which means at Gb5-19 if we count from Gb8-6:
Counting from Gb8-30, the number of Gb5-19 will be 154 - 24 = 130, also a number indicating a final for the sun. To reach 154 we have to move another 24 glyphs ahead, to Ga6-13:
Why is there a manu kapa in Ga6-14? (I missed it when earlier saying there are 2 manu kapa in G.) Maybe because 155 = 5 * 31 and the period number (24) indicates a final. The measure 5 * 32 = 160 should point at the dark season necessary, I guess:
The 'eating' season of the sun is over (Ga5-24 and Ga5-27). The kuhane measure 5 * 29.5 = 147.5 points at maitaki in Ga5-13:
If we count the normal way, from Gb8-30, the number of Ga5-13 is 148 - 24 = 124 = 4 * 31. Is this an attempt to synchronize moon and sun? |
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