TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Ha8-5 is just one of 5 manu kake, but probably the only one of the bird type:


*Ha7-20	Ha8-5	Ha12-7	Ha12-9	Hb8-119

The parallel glyph in P to the partly destroyed *Ha7-20 is of the fish type:


*Ha7-20	Pa6-48

7 * 20 = 140 could indicate the season of 'fish' (winter) is over. Adding the rest of the glyphs in line a7, i.e. *51 - *20 = *31, Ha8-5 will arrive as number *36:

	*35
*Ha7-20		Ha8-5
	*36

The distance from Ha8-5 to the remaining (following) manu kake glyphs is, though, much longer. Therefore they should not belong to early spring if Ha8-5 does.

Taking away 36 from 400 leaves us with 364, and both manu kake are in a way thereby defined:

	*26		*8
Ha7-20 (364)		Ha7-47 (391)		*Ha8-5 (400)**
	36

The face-to-face pair of birds occupy a position beyond the end of one year and the beginning of next, it seems. Even if the structures of G and H are quite dissimilar, they both use multiples of 26 and a final at 14 * 26 = 364:

77		26		258
	Ga3-18 (78)		Ga4-21 (105)		Gb5-10 (364)
*78 = 3 26**			*260 = 10 26**

The distance between the bird pair and the fish type manu kake is 26 in both cases, but they come in opposite order.

The distance between the bird pair and the bird type of manu kake is 8 in H, but 16 in G (and they come in opposite order):

	16		281
Ga3-1 (61)		Ga3-18 (78)		Gb5-6 (360)
*300 = 20 15**

	*26		*8
Ha7-20 (364)		Ha7-47 (391)		*Ha8-5 (400)**
	36

We can count backwards in H and arrive at the remnants of a glyph at position 359. To make it more interesting we can also compare with the parallel P text which is intact at this place:

	...	...	...
*Ha7-15 (359)**	*Ha7-16	*Ha7-17	*Ha7-18	*Ha7-19	Ha7-20 (364)


Pa6-39	Pa6-40	Pa6-41	Pa6-42

Ha7-11	Ha7-12	Ha7-13	Ha7-14


Pa6-43	Pa6-44	Pa6-45
	...	...
*Ha7-15 (359)**	...	...


Pa6-46	Pa6-47	Pa6-48	Pa6-49	Pa6-50
...
...	*Ha7-19	Ha7-20 (364)	*Ha7-21	*Ha7-22

Pa6-48 has ordinal number 363 counted from Pa1-1, and we can guess we should add 1 in order to reach 364, i.e. let the counting begin from the last glyph on side b - the same pattern as in G.

Also in P do we count 1 glyph per day. Both the H and P texts (and presumbaly also the Q text) evidently must stretch for more than one cycle, if we think of 364 days as one cycle. But maybe there should be 4 cycles in order to form a square. Or at least 3 if we can leave the 4th quarter in the dark.

We should notice that Pa6-48 gives the same signal as the number of glyphs on each side of H, viz. 648.

599 + *559 = *1158 glyphs in the P text should be changed in our minds into 1159 (we should count *Pb11-60 twice):


*Pb11-55	*Pb11-56	*Pb11-57	*Pb11-58	*Pb11-59	*Pb11-60

Hb10-45	Hb10-46	Hb10-47	Hb10-48	Hb10-49

And then, miraculously, we discover 11-59 at Rei. What does it mean? Of course, it must mean 22 times 29.5, i,e, 22 kuhane stations.

If we count 22 * 29.5 we reach 649, one more than 648 = 8 * 81.