TRANSLATIONS
At the beginning of the G text another 22 - 25 pair appears:
This pair is in contrast to such pairs as Ga6-22, 25 and Gb1-22, 25:
The distance between the tao pair and the pair of rau hei in line a6 is 10 fortnights:
Can we find something similar in K?
First we notice how Ka1-22 (moon) here is reflected in Ka2-1 (tao) into a sign of sun (Ka2-4). Neither number 22 nor number 25 can agree with 22 and 25 in G. And tao in Ka2-1 is unusual in form. Listing all tao glyphs in K we can guess there is a relationship between Ka1-9 and Ka2-1 on one hand and Ka2-4 and Kb1-13 on the other:
But we can alternatively perceive this pattern, which seems to be more clear:
Let us add ordinal numbers:
171 - 110 = 61, as if two months. 9 and 25 forces me to look for the 3rd member of Pythagoras' theorem. But exactly here (as if a glyph pun) there are no less than 4 glyphs missing:
The strangely drawn right part of Ka1-11 can be imagined as having a rectangular triangle at its bottom left. Not one other vaha kai among all the rongorongo texts has any straight feature. It confirms that the missing unknown quantity (16 = 4 * 4) has been 'swallowed'. |