TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

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At vaha mea in this glyph dictionary a reversal from 'black' to 'red' (at Ab4-68--69) was suggested, a judgment based primarily on the form of these two hoea glyphs in comparison with other similar ones in Tahua:


Ab4-63	Ab4-64	Ab4-65	Ab4-66	Ab4-67

Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab4-70	Ab4-71	Ab4-72

To reinforce the argument numbers were used:

... Counting glyphs from the specially designed vaha mea (in Aa6-67) to the exceptional hoea (in Ab4-69) we find a powerful numerical signal:

	499
Aa6-67		Ab4-69
0		500

500 may seem to be a coincidence (although for me it suggests a hundredfold rima - 'fire, fire') ...

In the rongorongo system of measuring glyph distances, it is not always the normal counting that counts. 500 is just to draw our attention, and the main signal to observe is 314 (100 * π), i.e. the fact that Ab4-69 is the next to 314th glyph on side b. Half a cycle is completed at Ab4-69 (because the whole cycle is computed by using 2π, or 628).

Aa6-67 and Ab4-69 serve as markers defining half a cycle. Therefore both of the glyphs are aberrant from the norm (in order to catch attention) ...

... Together with the following mea we are very close to vaha mea, as if there was a word play (haha mea) together with a glyph play


Aa6-67	Ab4-68--69
vaha mea	haha - mea

In Aa6-67 the (sun) fish is designed as if being swallowed by a hoea glyph. At summer solstice the opposite of mea occurs - the dark season will begin.

Ab4-68--69, half a cycle later, has mea at right ...

4 * 70 = 280 at Ab4-70 could mean 140 days. The 'ghostly' (cfr the 'broken' neck line) manu kake is very close to loosing his two heads:


Ab4-68	Ab4-69	Ab4-70 (314)	Ab4-71	Ab4-72

By force of their 'broken' necks and, secondarily, by being close together we can now see the two manu kake as a pair:

	27
Ab4-43		Ab4-71
	28

30 glyphs before ua in Ab4-70 another identical ua is located. Together they suggest rain is coming, and we remember the 'Beast' (Aa6-66). Furthermore, we get a clue to what the special henua-sign at right in period 6 could mean:

	6		22
Ab4-40		Ab4-47		Ab4-70	Aa6-66
	30

It could be added that 6-66 probably is here to be interpreted as 6 + 6 + 6 = 18, because 180 days from winter solstice midsummer is reached. And the assymmetry in the two ua glyphs are repeated in the vomit of the Beast. Presumably there are two similarly formed entities in ua, maybe a sign of conjunction.

I had intended to go forward with also the pairs of manu kake in the internal parallels, but now I had secopnd thoughts - it will take too much effort and too much place in the dictionary.

A preliminary effort has, however, resulted in these four pages:

Internal parallel 1 consists of Aa3-6--15 / Ab2-34--40, the central part of which is:


Aa3-8	Aa3-9	Aa3-10	Aa3-11


Ab2-35	Ab2-36	Ab2-37	Ab2-38

Internal parallel 2 is much longer, and the part we are interested in could be described as:


Ab3-7	Ab3-8	Ab3-9	Ab3-10	Ab3-11	Ab3-12


Ab5-16	Ab5-17	Ab5-18	Ab5-19	Ab5-20

Both parallels will be discussed briefly: internal parallel 1, internal parallel 2.

We can begin by showing the whole parallel:


Aa3-6	Aa3-7	Aa3-8	Aa3-9	Aa3-10

Aa3-11	Aa3-12	Aa3-13	Aa3-14	Aa3-15


Ab2-34	Ab2-35	Ab2-36	Ab2-37

Ab2-38	Ab2-39	Ab2-40

The hahe glyph type (Aa3-9, Ab2-38) is unusual and we will therefore save the main part of this discussion to that 'chapter', and instead here concentrate on manu kake.

Aa3-10 is fairly normal, with a raised 'future' wing and old birds both at left and right, none of them has a 'ghostly' character. The bird at right seems to be somewhat older (a more curved beak), the bird at left somewhat more well fed. 3-10 probably indicates a solar period (30 or 300 days).

Ab2-37 has undulating wings, the wing tip at right ending in a sign which we do not yet understand. Its body is short, maybe meaning winter when the sky roof is low. Although its neck appears to be long, compensating the short body stature, the general impression is that the glyph is 'broad'. 2-37 does not say anything, but that probably is because 2-36 has been destined for the preceding hahe glyph. 2-36 suggests on one hand twice 36 (which we who are born in Western Culture maybe identifies as two years), on the other hand 236 (= 8 * 29.5).

The Mamari moon calendar has 2 * 36 = 72 glyphs, and there - we can guess - it means the two 'faces' of the moon, waxing and waning. Following this lead we can suspect 2-36 to indicate that a pair of cycles have come to an end. And then we can guess that 236 is also meant to indicate 2 * 118 - that two cycles each with 4 months à 29.5 nights have ended. Manu kake can then be the first glyph in a new 'year'.

The curios 'heads' in Ab2-37 could allude to fists, no light yet released (but soon). In Aa3-10 an important sign is the 'birth' at the top (the location of the sun). The 'spreading out' in hau tea (Aa3-15) is also a sign of the sun (while, on the other hand, ragi in Ab2-40 has a moon crescent).

Let us now count:

side a			side b
274		395	118		545
	Aa3-10 (275)			Ab2-37 (119)
670			664

118 says the moon measure 29.5 has been used on side b.

On side a 275 = 11 * 25 could allude to the idea of 11 as 1 more than the full measure for the sun (10) - a way to indicate the birth of a new sun. The word 'eleven' means 'one left over after having counted to ten'.

The parallel is beginning with on one hand the first glyph in line b3:


Ab3-1	Ab3-2	Ab3-3	Ab3-4	Ab3-5	Ab3-6


Ab5-11	Ab5-12	Ab5-13	Ab5-14	Ab5-15

On the other hand it begins after 10 glyphs in line b5, which in turn have another internal parallel.

The parallel ends after on one hand 31 glyphs, on the other 25 glyphs:


Ab3-26	Ab3-27	Ab3-28	Ab3-29	Ab3-30	Ab3-31


Ab5-32	Ab5-33	Ab5-34	Ab5-35

We should add the ordinal numbers for kake manu:


Ab3-7	Ab3-8 (845)	Ab3-9	Ab3-10	Ab3-11	Ab3-12


Ab5-16	Ab5-17 (1011)	Ab5-18	Ab5-19	Ab5-20

And measure distances:

side b
174		165		323
	Ab3-8 (845)		Ab5-17 (1011)
664

Not much is gained, though we can observe that 845 = 5 * 169 and the distance from one manu kake to the next is 166. A new year seems to be born at Ab3-8 (at a point of turning the 'hourglass' upside down), 166 glyphs later it seems to end.


Ab5-1	Ab5-2	Ab5-3	Ab5-4	Ab5-5

Ab5-6	Ab5-7	Ab5-8	Ab5-9	Ab5-10


Aa4-63	Aa4-64	Aa4-65	Aa4-66	Aa4-67

Aa4-68	Aa4-69	Aa4-70	Aa4-71	Aa4-72