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TRANSLATIONS
We can surely update the table with Te Pei, the zero station. To simplify things I have added the stations pairwise:
In K there is no glyph missing at the beginning, which means the π glyph (Ka3-14) becomes number 60 (= 30 + 29 + 1). We can compare the last glyph in G with the left part of Ka1-1:
My denomination of π for Ka3-14 does not mean I am convinced the full double cycle of the year should be 4 * π, or 4 * 60 = 240, it is more to focus interest and make it easier for the memory. The idea of a 'year' measuring 240 days is, though, not impossible, a calendar round which does not bother with the rest of the 365.25 days. 10 double periods for the sun, 12 in each period - exactly as we have tabulated earlier. 240 - 192 = 48 = 4 * 12, and 4 periods would lie outside the K text. Instead of 260 days in the light, followed by day 261 (= 9 * 29) when sun 'falls', there could be an additional calendar round, 20 days shorter. This evidence indicates that Gb8-30 should be counted as the first glyph, and consequently that the counting to 366 at Hanga Te Pau is no mistake. One Tea thereby will have only 27 glyphs, instead of 29 which the rhythm implies. With the beginning of Te Kioe Uri a new doublemonth begins. The second half of the preceding doublemonth is Te Piringa Aniva. When the whole island gathers it symbolizes Te Pito O Te Kainga, I think, the center from which everything develops. The horizon is one and the same, yet in the west sun goes down and moon up, while in the east sun goes up and moon down, as if there were two different holes. The way up appears to be different from the way down. Where is Te Poko Uri in K? It should have ordinal number 60 + 59 = 119 = 7 * 17 (a bad number):
Kiore has partially lost contact with mother earth, and there is no growing maro string. 119 = 100 + 18 + 1. Another such glyph is Kb3-8 (26 glyphs ahead):
Earlier I wrote: ... the thin arm, it looks, is the forearm, while the elbow is high up close to the body. Maybe the picture in Kb1-104 is meant to show a person tipping forward, falling on his face (vero). Presumably the end glyph in period 23 is meant to be read together with Kb1-104. Kb1-104 has a 'knee' bent upwards, while the leg in Kb2-8 is oppositely oriented ... Vero in Ga5-17 does not appear in K. But the ordinal number for Kb1-20 is 117. And the period number is 17. If somebody is falling on his face at 119 it should be Te Kioe Uri:
The uplifted leg, we have earlier found, seems to define a quarter (of some cycle) in Keiti:
Henua in Eb4-12 is shorter than henua in Eb3-25. Eb3-20 has numbers suggesting 60 (= 3 * 20), which maybe indicates that from Eb3-20 Te Kioe Uri is beginning. The shorter henua in Eb4-12 (4 * 12 = 48) possibly indicates his period is coming to a close. He has had his 4 quarters.
If Te Kioe Uri is illustrated as honu, we can see him gradually disappearing at the beginning of glyph line Kb2:
The strange vertexes in Kb2-2 (at 121 = 2 * 60 + 1) in a way resemble a few other glyphs (Ab7-1, Ca9-16, Cb6-29, L1-40, and Ra8-103), but it is an unusual sign - therefore a strong mark. In Kb2-3 the elbow and knee of ariki forms an oval, as if to indicate a new season ahead. 3 feathers are in the past and 2 ahead. The 3-feather cycle should be Te Kioe Uri and the 2-feather cycle Te Poko Uri. They are a pair with 5 (fire) feathers (fire), odd (male) coming first and even (female) completing the double cycle. Ariki in Kb2-3 should be compared with ariki in Ga5-24:
The gesture is opposite and the feathers too. The distance from Kb2-3 to Ga5-24 is 134 - 122 = 12 days. In G time has run farther. Honu is not vanishing, he has rather intensified his presence. His apex possibly lies at Ga5-26 (5 * 26 = 130 and 136 as ordinal number). In Ga5-28 he is no longer so fat.
12, it seems, is used for measuring cycles. And cycles, it seems, have two parts - the male (rising) half and the femal (sinking) half. In E we can suppose Te Kioe Uri to cover a 24-day cycle:
I have here modified the two parts (male respectively female) to have 14 (female) respectively 12 (male) glyphs, one of the aspects being modified by the other - a tendency often used in the rongorongo texts, I think. A new glyph line begins 20 glyphs counted from the beginning of the calendar (at Rei in Eb3-20). Another factor to consider is how Metoro suddenly changed to reversed order (henua - kiore) at Eb4-12. I guess he wanted to tell that Te Kioe Uri is falling on his face in Eb4-12 (4 * 12 = 48). In Eb3-26 (3 * 26 = 78) a cardinal point is illustrated by the split bottom, and in front lies a season of the sun (tapa mea with 6 feathers oriented the normal way). In Eb3-36 (3 * 36 = 108) the bottom is ghostly and the 'kiore' has sunk down, then follows the recycling station at position 18 and Nga Kope Ririva is his last station before he is gone. Eb4-11 (at 30) is a 'midnight' henua, special among the 4 such glyphs in E:
If we compare with night and day, Te Kioe Uri perhaps could be regarded as the time from early dawn to midnight. 14 to measure up to noon and 12 from the point of reversal. |
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