TRANSLATIONS
The discovered technique to allude to ordinal numbers at other positions in time-space makes the rongorongo texts even more complicated. Let us hope Ab3-65--66 is an exception:
If we look at Ab3-54 (corresponding, maybe, to 354 = 12 * 29.5 = Hatinga Te Kohe) we find:
Yes (unfortunately), we can see the 'break' (hati) - but it is a reverse Hatinga Te Kohe. The 'breaker' comes first (Ab3-49) and the 'wave' (Ab3-52) later. We can compare with the true Hatinga Te Kohe with haati glyphs in Aa8-68 and Aa8-81:
More similarities appear on closer look:
The 'missing link' in Aa8-80 has been restored in Ab3-50. (8 * 8 = 64 is the last square on the chess board.) We must leave this new dimension for the moment. Instead I want to invest some precious time on the use of ihe tau:
At Hua Reva (Aa7-48--49) one ihe tau was encountered, at Hanga Takaure two (though in a single glyph):
The distance between them is 944 - 590 = 354 = 12 * 29.5 - not very strange because Hanga Takaure is the 15th station and Hua Reva the 9th. 354 / 2 = 177 days = 6 kuhane stations. I remember there is a third ihe tau 'station' of importance, arriving immediately after the 'calendar for the night':
Logic tells me to count 944 + 354 = 1298 in hope of reaching these three ihe tau glyphs, but no - it is not enough. 42 + 670 (side a) + 586 = 1298. 664 (side b) - 84 (b8) = 580, i.e. Ab8-6 is the glyph:
1298 / 2 = 649 days = 22 kuhane stations. Hanga Takaure is number 15, and we must move 7 stations further:
1334 - 1298 = 36 may be a sign. With 2 kuhane stations left, it means 2 * 29.5 = 59 days = 118 glyphs in Tahua. 1298 + 118 = 1416 = 1334 + 82. 1334 is te pito (Ab8-43). We move 42 glyphs from there to the end of side b, and then another 40 glyphs from the beginning of side a:
I cannot see any sign of Mauga Hau Epa here. If we move back one station, to Peke Tau O Hiti, i.e. go back 29.5 * 2 = 59 glyphs, we are back on side b. 1416 - 59 = 1357.
Maybe we should disregard Nga Kope Ririva (not on the island), Peke Tau O Hiti, and Maunga Hau Epa. The total measure could be 3 * 7 = 21 stations:
The red-marked stations are 'red' (important stations of light), arriving as number 7 in the 'week' after a 'black' station (Te Pei, One Tea, and Hanga Hoonu). |