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TRANSLATIONS
A bicycle has two wheels. How do you know which is the front wheel and which is the back wheel? Answer: The front wheel is at the front end and the back wheel is where you sit down. Time moves forward and to avoid mishap you should look in front of you. Once upon a time the front wheel had another size than the back wheel:
(Wikipedia)
The regular lunar year once probably ended at 12 * 29.5 = 354 days. If then an odd 13th month (with 14 days only) was used to reach past the solar cycle of the year (354 + 14 = 368), then the 'back wheel' was smaller than the 'front wheel'. Or was there not and additional 14 days also at the end of the front cycle? What is the opinion according the K text? That there are two cycles in the K calendar has now been established:
The bicycle of the sun has a larger back cycle than front cycle. At least that is the first impression. But, we remember, there was another 22 at the very front - it is a tricycle (or maybe a bicycle with a distance measuring wheel separate at the very front).
The creator of K has presumably designed three wheels in order to present the idea of a time sequence. When time moves on growth occurs. The back wheel should be larger. On the other hand the head goes off at midsummer and growth must start anew. A hidden group of 22 glyphs, equal to the glyphs in line Kb1, amalgamates front wheel with back wheel:
In Kb1-12 a childish 'person' comes immediately after a Rei glyph. This 22 group is 'hidden' because it overlaps both the 3rd and 4th earlier defined 22-groups:
5 signifies the fire of the sun which ends at Kb1-7, and 14 the fortnights of the moon which become more important from then on. The front wheel has disappeard, illustrated as legs no longer in contact with the land (henua) in Kb1-22. So it is no bicycle. We have 6 ordinary wheels: 1 (a2) + 2 + 3 = 6. But beyond the end of the regular calendar 'cycle' a 7th wheel is found:
1 (a2) + 2 + 3 + 1 (beyond) = 7. The hidden 22 is the 8th group. It is no bicycle it is rather a spider. Or better: an insect with 2 antennas. The glyphs can be used as a calendar with each glyph equal to one day. But the glyphs tell a more complex story. If we let each glyph stand for 2 days, the text of K will stretch for 2 * 192 = 384 days (= 354 + 30). Manu kake at Kb1-7 will be number 104 * 2 = 208. Or to be more exact it will correspond to days 207-208. Let us say 207.5 and then measure the distance to Sirius (Te Pou). Sirius is definitely not located in the 'front wheel' but in the 'back wheel'. Measured by kuhane stations Te Pou is located at 9 * 29.5 = 265.5, i.e. 58 days later than manu kake. In the text of K we can look for Sirius at glyph number 266 / 2 = 133. It means we should look for glyph number 36 on side b (and we understand why there are 97 glyphs on side a):
Here we recognize the sign 2-14 (as both 2 * 14 = 28 and as alluding to 3-14). Sirius is located 100 days before the end of the true solar year. 365.25 - 265.5 = 99.75, i.e. 100 is the best measure. We still do not know, though, when the true solar year calendar cycle is beginning. It may have been determined by winter solstice, by the rising of Sirius, or by something else. But we have learnt the whereabouts of Sirius in K. Its arrival marks the end of the cycle which begins in the 6th period:
Kb2-15 has the same ordinal number in the line as Ka4-15, and the distance between the glyphs is 134 - 82 = 52. This number of glyphs can be multiplied by 2 and then we find a period of 104 days (the same number as the ordinal number of glyphs at manu kake). 104 days is equal to 8 * 13 days. Is this the length of the season of high summer?
Where is manu kake in this beutiful map?
If manu kake stands at summer solstice, which we expect, then it does not stand in the exact middle of the 208 days (104 glyphs) of our supposed 'high summer'. Manu kake comes 6 weeks beyond Ka4-15 and from manu kake to Sirius there are 8 weeks. The midsection of 'high summer' looks like this:
In our own calendar summer solstice lies 10 days before the beginning of July (the month of the brutally murdered Ceasar). 10 is the measure of the sun, but equally well we could have given him 4 (= 104 - 100) quarters. Expressed in our own calendar we can say that possibly 'high summer' according to K was measured as 4 * 26 days beginning 52 days before 'July 1', i.e. somewhere close to 'May 8'. A trace in our own calendar of the 'bicycle' idea remains. As a child I learnt the peculiar pattern of the number of days in each month by counting on the knuckles of my left hand, pointing with the index finger of my right hand. You starts with January having 31 days (represented by the knuckle corresponging to the index finger of my left hand. Then followed in the 'bay' between the knuckles of my index and long fingers February - an exceptionally 'low' dip, then March once again was 'high' on the knuckle corresponding to my left hand long finger, implying 31 days. April was 'down' (30 days) before May again was on a knuckle (31). It was very easy to remember. When June arrived 'low' it was 30 days, and July was given 31 by being located on the knuckle of my little finger. Then I had to shift and continue on my right hand, pointing with my left index finger. August (knucke of right hand index finger) was therefore also 31 days (not 30 which would follow from a more regular pattern ). It nicely explained why both July and August had 31 days, in spite of following after each other. It also - now - illustrates why right hand corresponds to sun and why a new cycle must begin after 7 months. A gap then comes, shifting from one hand to next. The gap in a way corresponds to a 'bay', because then a new knuckle comes. Shifting from one hand to the next illustrates the 8th 'hidden land'. |
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