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TRANSLATIONS
From the 'little clod of earth' side a describes the 2nd half (the back side) of sun on the island. He arrives in the east and nothing is said on side a about the eastern half of the island. Likewise, on side b nothing is said about the western half of the island corresponding to waxing moon. Nothing is said about the front side of the island, only the south (moon) side is described. Moon is the year builder, therefore the back side of the island is the proper side to inscribe a map. Moon does not rule over the front side, therefore only the 2nd halves of the sun and moon paths over the island can be mapped on the back side. But the glyphs in the text can tell also about the front side. The texts on the rongorongo boards are out in the sun, for the males to work with (while kaikai is for women). Going up the mountain is equal to going down - in theory. Let us take a quick look at the text of K to see if there is another (mirror) henua like Te Pou standing at an equal distance from the apex:
No, the point is qualitatively different. But we may have placed the mirror at the wrong place:
No, mago (with closed mouth) in Ka4-14 seems to be the corresponding mirror glyph (with 14 as ordinal number in the glyph line). It may be a celestial reference point, but it is no pole. Time does not reflect in a mirror, it always keep on going forward. The maitaki glyph (cfr Ka4-8) has 3 semicycles at left and 3 at right. 6 is the sun number and only 3 parts are needed to describe the day. The central vertical line probably is a sign of measurement. But it looks like the surface of the sea, in which the three islets are mirrored. 75 glyphs means days 149-150. From the middle of Ka4-8 to the middle of manu kake (also with a vertical line) there are 29 glyphs. 207.5 - 149.5 = 58 days. Kb2-14 (Te Pou) is not divisible, it is male. |
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