TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Also in G there is a 'rising fish' type of manu kake:

13
13	Ga4-16	Ga4-17	Ga4-18	Ga4-19
14
14	Ga4-20	Ga4-21	Ga4-22

Together with the first (the 'bird' type) of the pair of manu kake in G it measures out 45 glyphs (days):

60		43		125
	Ga3-1 (61)		Ga4-21 (105)
	45

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First we should notice that the bird manu kake is drawn to be more powerful than the fish manu kake, exactly as in E:


Ga3-1	Ga4-21

Eb5-29	Eb5-30

In E this is quite clear, in G it is only hinted at. But more is not necessary, because Ga4-21 is obviously 'wilting', no firmness at all.

The soft and rounded shape in Ga4-21 is in contrast with the stiff and straight shape of Ga3-1. We could say that the bird manu kake is 'male', and the fish manu kake is 'female'.

Next we will compare the preceding manu rere in Ga4-16 (where 4 * 16 = 64, a sign of growth) with manu rere in the 2nd period:

2
2	Ga3-6 (66)	Ga3-7	Ga3-8	Ga3-9
13
13	Ga4-16 (100)	Ga4-17	Ga4-18	Ga4-19

Maro at right in Ga4-16 seems to indicate the limit of a season beginning at Ga3-6, which impression is confirmed by ordinal number 100 (counted from Gb8-30).

The season measured out should be a season of spring sun. Not only can we read this from 4-16 (because spring sun generates growth), but also from 3-6 (as in 36 = 6 * 6) and from ordinal number 66.

If we arrange this assumed early spring season from Rei in Ga2-27, it will measure 42 glyphs (6 weeks):

	2		4		33
Ga2-27 (58)		Ga3-1 (61)		Ga3-6 (66)		Ga4-16 (100)
42

We should look for another sign of 42 - redundance was used in the rongorongo texts - and maybe we can connect the bird manu kake with Ga4-19:

1
	Ga2-27	Ga2-28	Ga2-29	Ga3-1 (61)

	Ga3-2	Ga3-3	Ga3-4	Ga3-5

13
13	Ga4-16	Ga4-17	Ga4-18	Ga4-19 (103)

In Ga3-1 there is a little vertical 'measure' sign (GD122) formed by the right side of the neck - it is prolonged a bit down into the body of the bird. The sign is quite clear once you have recognized it.

Knowing what to look for it is then possible to count 42 glyphs forward and identify another such subtle, slightly prolonged, vertical line - 'hidden' as the right side of henua. But here it is necessary to look also at the other kiore - henua glyphs in G, to see whether my proposal is reasonable. And the result proves to be negative.


Ga3-5	Ga3-9	Ga3-16	Ga3-19	Ga3-21	Ga3-24

Ga4-4	Ga4-6	Ga4-8	Ga4-10	Ga4-13	Ga4-15

Ga4-19	Ga4-22	Ga4-27	Ga5-3	Ga5-9	Ga5-16

Ga5-21	Ga5-29	Ga6-4	Ga6-8	Ga6-11	Ga6-16

Ga6-18	Ga6-20	Ga6-16	Ga6-18	Ga6-20	Ga7-4
		*Several other glyphs (than Ga4-19) look rather similar (as regards the form of henua). No 'proof' can therefore be found here.*
Ga7-10	Gb8-2	*13 blackmarked glyphs have aberrant kiore* mouths. 32 - 1 (Gb8-2) - 13 = 18, in other words 32 = 18 (sun) + 14 (moon).**

Reconsidering, it is rather obvious that the closed fist held high has not let out any finger (of light) yet. In manu kake the beak at right is still 'juvenile' (not to mention the beak at left):

	4			32
Ga3-1 (61)	4	Ga3-6 (66)	Ga3-7	32	Ga4-16 (100)

The measure mark (GD122) at right in manu kake probably refers to the yearly cycle of the sun:

		297
Ga2-29	Ga3-1 (61)		Gb5-5	Gb5-6 (360)
	300

The early spring sun season ends after 12 periods, it appears, and then comes a new Rei, this one presumably relating to the fish manu kake:

13
13	Ga4-16 (100)	Ga4-17	Ga4-18	Ga4-19
14
14	Ga4-20	Ga4-21	Ga4-22
15
15	Ga4-23	Ga4-24	Ga4-25	Ga4-26	Ga4-27

The left beak is bent at its end, a sign of old age. The beak at right belongs to another bird, a young one. It is not as strong as the right bird in Ga3-1 but about the same age, it is a weak bird. An old bird at left and a young weak one at right, together it becomes a poor prospect, a sign of 'wilting'.

14 is half 28, and maybe therefore the kiore - henua periods refer to a calendar for the month? The wilting shape could mean waning. It would explain the two dark tao glyphs (2 as in the 2nd of the two faces of the moon), the dark internal wedge marks changes the value of tao into its opposite, to a pair of cool watery things.

The light is tapering off according to henua in Ga4-27 - which is as it should because full moon is reached with the 15th night.

Finally, it also explains the moon crescent signs at top left in the two Rei:


Ga2-27	Ga4-17

Bottom means the past, and in Ga4-17 it is a fat sign at bottom left.

Given that kiore - henua together with a growing maro indicates the season of growth, the waning seems to be due to the 'make-up' of man. What should come - if the calendar begins around winter solstice - is spring equinox. Not waning but more waxing. Maybe the dark double-canoe indicates how the old winter half of the year is leaving.

And perhaps the wilting fish manu kake has a fish at bottom in order to refer to the 'fish' season (winter). The bird manu kake cannot release any finger until the fish manu kake has left, it seems.