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TRANSLATIONS
The method of counting months I learnt as child was wrong (or I have forgotten the proper way to do it). Obviously the counting must begin at the little finger of the left (dark) hand, growth evolves from little to big. The index finger of the right hand is the ordering principle 'personified' - sun. Beyond midsummer the counting continues by using the dark indexfinger (moon). After 4 fingers and 3 gaps, together 7 (as the number of kuhane stations on side a of G), a discontinuity occurs (the serpent rope goes straight down through the turtle) and the freezing midwinter forces gradually will force sun downwards. In December ('the 10th month') we have 'proof' that another system later prevailed, where each finger was counted as one month. But the discontinuity must have been there:  The 10-month system was pushed (grew) to a 12-month system by introducing the two great kings (Ceasar and Augustus) as thumbs in the middle. At the same time they killed themselves, because thumbs - they had thereby proven - were not more than ordinary fingers. They became mortals instead of eternal pharaohs (fire kings). If we go back again, to the 10-month system, we find 4 + 3 = 7 on the left (spring) hand. 4 means the night half and 3 the light half, we know. But here it is reversed - it is the knuckles which are 4, not the valleys. In the dark land (first wheel of the bicycle year) everything is 'upside down' compared with the well ordered back wheel world created by human (by using what they have stolen from the gods high above).
This is how the well ordered creation of human mind looks like from the other side. The valleys become like mountain peaks and the mountains are reversed into valleys. It is visualized when you pray and clasp your hands, making the bridge over the gap secure. Most of the planets can only be observed during the nights, not in daytime. The 'net' cast upon the night (from the world of light) should therefore be found on side a. It is unclear how the counting should proceed on the right hand by using the left index finger. Nothing is very clear in the dark. But let us try:
The way down should be the way up in reversed order. It is interesting to find Mercury in the Janus position, at the door (opening) to next year. The watery quick-silver is the provider of new life. A new year will be born by actions done there:
Beyond breaking the staff of order (Hatinga Te Kohe) a renewal must take place, and when the baby has been born the mother will die (One Tea). These are the glyphs in K which I have documented in the glyph catalogue under ragi:
All belong on side a, half of them in a1 and the other half in a4. In G, on side a, we also have 6 ragi glyphs, but the disposition is different. I have redmarked glyphs which are parallel with those in line Ka4:
Let us concentrate on the ragi signs in line a4 of K, they are part in a sequence of events which I guess has to do with fetching down the fire from the sky:
Presented this way we can imagine Ka4-7 to be the last month of the first wheel of the bicycle. A calendar inside the greater calendar is no problem, it is rather the norm it seems in the rongorongo texts. There are three rising lines in henua, a characteristic sign of spring, and in Ka4-10 there are two horizontal lines, a characteristic mark for the 2nd cycle. In the last month kiore is only a ghost and henua quite small. Further more, in the 6th kiore-henua group we encounter a new season, maybe integrating the new year beyond Ka4-12 with what I guess is summer beginning at Ka4-15:
If so, then before the beginning of the summer season there is room in the text for telling about the order established by 'light'. Aa1-5--8 possibly illustrate how the sky roof is held high above:
Aa1-13--15 can correspond to Ka4-13--15, explaining how a new year comes into beeing, but also - by implication and by using the same fundamental structure - how the season of present sun comes into being. Aa1-1--4 refers to waxing and Aa1-9--12 to waning. Aa1-8 has here been given a place as the 8th station, yet visible before the midsummer turnover. In K the arrangement seems to locate midsummer at day number 150 (maitaki), creating a pattern with 6 followed by 4 (= 10), if we regard kiore-henua as just markers between the sections:
In other words, Ka4-1 at 68 - indicating an important cardinal point resembling 168 (= 12 / 13 * 182) - 'is' the 1st of the months and Ka4-11 'is' the last one. And this is what I wrote earlier: ... A waning moon sign is located at top right in Ka4-11:
The parallel sign in Ga3-20 is a waxing sun sign. The sun light is gaining in strength and the moon light is - comparatively seen - diminishing in importance. For the moon concave to the left means waning in the rongorongo system, while for the sun it presumably means waxing ... In retrospect my doubts have come partly true. Ka4-11 is not standing in early spring - which I have suggested - but is at the opposite side of the mountain, in late autumn. But there is a double focus - at close hand we can see the 10-month pattern in which the moon sign can at best be regarded as a sign borrowed from the moon to the sun. In the greater frame, though, what I have written appears to be right - moon (the dark season) is waning, and soon sun will reappear. The close at hand picture is obvious and needs no further sign, but the greater picture is not obvious, thats why a waning moon sign was inserted. |
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