TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The first moe glyph which we ought to consider is that in Sunday:


Hb9-17	Hb9-18	Hb9-19	Hb9-20	Hb9-21

The week belongs to the moon, there are 4 weeks in a 28-day month. The domain of the moon is the dark time, the night, and the henua glyphs at the beginning of the days of the week have lines across to indicate this fact.

Sun cannot be seen during the night. But the glyphs for Sunday are drawn with circumferences which are closed, they do not illustrate 'ghosts' (unseen abstractions). Sun is real. He is on the other side of the earth.

At first glance moe in Hb9-21 could be understood as the end of Sunday night. However, the neck is vertical and straight, which here should be interpreted to mean that the morning light is beginning to lift the sky-roof up. The stance of the bird is drawn to illustrate this.

When the light from the moon is beginning to be perceived before moon herself has become visible the technical term is koata. When light from the sun is beginning to disperse the darkness of night the technical term could be takoa. Or maybe tokotokoa.

The bottom of the dark henua at the beginning of Sunday is sloping upwards, the vertical distance is becoming shorter, presumably because sun is bringing light in at the end of the night sky. We can compare with how the bottom of the daylight henua in Kb4-14 is sloping upwards - a sign of arriving darkness:

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29	Kb4-10	Kb4-11	Kb4-12	Kb4-13	Kb4-14

If daylight is intruding already with Hb9-21, we can see a pattern for manu rere in the week - they arrive as last glyph in respective night:


Hb9-17	Hb9-18	Hb9-19	Hb9-20 (4)	Hb9-21


Hb9-39	Hb9-40	Hb9-41	Hb9-42	Hb9-43	Hb9-44	Hb9-45	Hb9-46	Hb9-47 (31)


Hb9-51	Hb9-52 (36)	Hb9-53	Hb9-54	Hb9-55	Hb9-56	Hb9-57	Hb9-58 (42)

The rule of the sky has 4 quarters, down on earth the king governs in periods of 31 days, and in the black underworld 42 is the measure. I guess.

36 (at Hb9-52) is a measure for the light from the sky falling on earth, counted in 10-day periods. A final doublemonth (420 - 360) is allotted to the dark time. But also Hb9-17--20 are black. 36 - 4 = 32 is the true measure for the sun beams fertilizing earth - the time when sun generates growth.

In G there are 3 glyphs which obviously belong together, among the 10 which I have classified as moe:


Ga1-20	Ga2-3	Ga3-2	Ga6-6	Gb2-13	Gb2-29

Gb2-30	Gb3-12	Gb4-22	Gb8-24

Ga2-3 is 'spooky' while Ga6-6 and Gb3-12 are without any break in their outlines. 6 * 6 = 3 * 12 = 36, which is no coincidence. The numbers refer to the regular 360-day solar year.

Ga6-6 and Gb3-12 are not drawn exactly alike. A quick look is not enough to determine whether two glyphs are alike. A close scrutiny is necessary, and we can then see that the beak in Ga6-6 is slightly thicker than that in Gb3-12. Also the 'foot' is thicker. These signs probably indicate that the spring bird (on side a) is giving 'stronger' light than the light from the bird on side b.

The 'ghost' characteristic is seen also in Ga3-2 (the number of which reverses 2-3):

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1	Ga2-27	Ga2-28	Ga2-29	Ga3-1	Ga3-2 (62)	Ga3-3	Ga3-4	Ga3-5

Ga3-2 proves its character by being located one month beyond Ga2-3:

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Ga2-3 (34)		Ga3-2 (62)
30

472 - 15 * 30 = 22 = 20 + 2. This fact may have something to do with the strange numbers 34 and 62 (instead of 32 and 60).

It is significant to find the 4th member of the moe group located in the first period of spring, the 'ghost' of previous year is coming back fully alive in Ga3-3. A reversed S can be seen in moa.

Moe glyphs precede, it seems, moa glyphs. This is a play not only with glyphs, but also with words.