TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

I hesitate if I should add at the end of the page in the dictionary:

... A gradually increasing darkness could be the reason behind having only one wing in Ha12-7 and two in Ha12-9. The wings may be signs of viri, and we can compare with the egg-laying bird in Ga5-8:

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

But it is not clear why a sign of darkness should appear at the beginning of the quarter of light. Maybe we should think of the reverse: viri is falling on its face. If that is the reason, however, then it would be curious to have the same sign at Ha12-7 and Ha12-9:


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

Maybe indeed darkness is falling on its face also here? Fists full with light appear.

636 - 400 = 236 possibly should be halved to get 118 days. If so, then the eating sky glyphs could refer to the opening of the sky roof (which comes before light comes down to earth):


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

The vaha mea glyphs with Y and maro would indicate the first quarter is in the past. Vaha mea are signs for opening the year.

I try once more, and decide to change the page into:


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.

A gradually increasing darkness could be the reason behind having only one wing in Ha12-7 and two in Ha12-9. The wings may be signs of viri, and we can compare with the 'egg-laying' bird in Ga5-8:

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

Here, however, we probably should interpret the viri sign to mean 'light' rather than 'darkness'. Ga5-8 stands at the beginning of the season when sun is arriving. Turning viri from its normal upright position into a horizontal one is like making viri falling on its face.

Logic then makes us deduce that 236 glyphs from 400 to 636 in H presumably is equal to 236 / 2 = 118 days. The glyphs arriving just before confirm:


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

At left are powerful sky eating arms, at right there are 8 signs of maro connected to Y on vaha mea. 12 * 3 = 36, and 630 is the reversal of 36 (times 10). Vaha mea, we know, indicates the season when the sky roof is opening up after new year. Together with Y and maro it means that season is over.

The double glyphs presumably refer to the moon with her two faces (waxing and waning), and 4 + 4 = 8 maro feathers is a sign of her leaving. The central fish (Ha12-3) probably is waning moon, because 7 glyphs earlier another such fish is without a 'cutmark' across:

Ha11-127

We can conclude from the arguments above that the two fish manu kake in H probably are standing at the beginning of the 'quarter' when sun arrives, 118 days after new year.

This was an important addition, I think. It is now possible to continue a bit more with comparing H and G:

The 'eating sky' sign is in G located in the 5th period, and ordinal number 80 for Ga3-20 could refer to the moon:

4
4	Ga3-17	Ga3-18	Ga3-19
5
5	Ga3-20 (80)	Ga3-21
6
6	Ga3-22	Ga3-23	Ga3-24

16 feathers on haú and 3 * 22 = 66 possibly refers to the end of the moon season. And maybe these 3 periods belong together. With sun having 300 days, it sums up to 366.

Instead of two moon fishes (as in H) there is only one (Ga3-23), but it probably signifies the 3 faces waxing, full, and waning. The left fin is much stronger than the right (waning), and in between we can see full moon.

Next comes another set of 3 periods:

7
7	Ga4-1 (84)	Ga4-2	Ga4-3	Ga4-4
8
8	Ga4-5	Ga4-6
9
9	Ga4-7	Ga4-8

84 = 6 * 14 seems to indicate where the moon cycle is over. 3 months of moonlit nights are in the past, which we can read at left in Ga4-2. The parallel tagata in K is eating, and we have entered a season when the force of light has reached also down to the earth:

Ka4-16

4 * 16 = 32 indicates 'multiplying'.

Maybe the two periods 8-9 describe the 4 lunar months (4 * 29.5 = 118) lying ahead.

Periods 8-9 may be a preview of the future, because day 119 - we have seen - is not due until Ga5-8:

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