TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

This discussion has given much, not only that number of glyphs probably are equal to number of days in H (and P) too, but also that kake manu glyphs evidently occupy what can be called Janus positions, i.e. they look back on an old year and forward to a new year.

In H the fish type manu kake is at the final of a 364-day long year, and important distances apparently are measured in multiples of 26:

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

The bird type manu kake instead is tuned to another type of year. To reach 400 from 364 it is necessary to first add 26 and then 10. 360 = 260 + 100.

The successful excursions into manu kake in G and H should induce us to once again venture into the text of H, because it has 3 more manu kake to offer. We will therefore take a quick look at this pair of fish manu kake:


Ha12-7	Ha12-9


Ha12-6	Ha12-7	Ha12-8	*Ha12-9 (636)**	Ha12-10	Ha12-11

The distance from 400 to 636 is 236 (equal to 8 * 29.5):

	235
*Ha8-5 (400)**		*Ha12-9 (636)**
	236

It seems that the bird type manu kake could rule the time from new year to summer solstice. Then sun moves downwards, to his 2nd wife, his winter maid in the land of the fishes.

There are 3 wings on these two fishy double-birds. If such wings serve to mark the darkness below them - which has been suggested earlier (at the egg-laying bird in G) - then the progressing darkness could be numerically alluded to (1, 2, ...).

Mauga at right in Ha12-8 has 3 feathers at left and 3 at right, indicating a point of balance (between the forces of light and darkness). Another, similar, point of reversal from which darkness will win the tug of war, is the fish which turns around in Ha12-3:


Ha12-1	Ha12-2	*Ha12-3 (630)**	Ha12-4	Ha12-5

At left there are powerful sky eating arms, at right 8 signs of maro connected to Y of vaha mea. 12 * 3 = 36, and 630 is the reversal of 36 (times 10).

The fat bird in G seems to be a parallel to the fish type of manu kake in Ha12-9. It stands at the beginning of the 2nd quarter and is 'multiplying':

17
17	Ga5-4	Ga5-5	Ga5-6	Ga5-7 (118)	Ga5-8	Ga5-9

Later follows a phase where the egg is gone:

26
26	Ga6-19 (160)	Ga6-20
27
27	Ga6-21	Ga6-22	Ga6-23
28
28	Ga6-24	Ga6-25	Ga6-26

The first 5 glyph lines on side a have 140 glyphs (Gb8-30 not counted). 140 - 118 = 22. The egg-laying season is very short, 19 days later it is over.

	40
Ga5-8 (119)		Ga6-19 (160)
42

The '7th flame of the sun' is the time when next generation is created. A third member of the group comes very much later, maybe the 'sun chicken' himself:


Gb7-25	Gb7-26	Gb7-27	Gb7-28	Gb7-29	Gb7-30

If we count from Ga1-1 he will be number 438 = 6 * 73. It is a parallel to 420 in expressing one more than a full cycle (360) - what I have called the '7th flame' - because we can interpret 438 as also being one more than a full cycle: 5 * 73 = 365.

By a leap of imagination I suddenly suspect the last manu kake glyph in H, of a peculiar sort, to have a corresponding 'one more' position. 648 + 358 + 19 + 15 = 1040 = 26 * 40:


Hb8-101	Hb8-102	*Hb8-103 (1024)**	Hb8-104	Hb8-105

Hb8-106	Hb8-107	Hb8-108	Hb8-109

Hb8-110	*Hb8-111 (1032)**	Hb8-112	Hb8-113

Hb8-114	*Hb8-115 (1036)**	Hb8-116	Hb8-117

Hb8-118	*Hb8-119 (1040)**	Hb8-120	Hb8-121	Hb8-122	Hb8-123

We notice the double hipu sign hinted at in Hb8-114, and then hanau comes in what probably is position 1036. Curiously 1036 = 28 * 37, which can be imagined as one more than a full cycle (because 37 = 36 + 1).