TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

By using numerical cues it is possible to relate koti (Ab4-36) with the first of the hanau glyphs with 'cap' at right:

side b			side a
279		384	286		383
	Ab4-36 (280)			Aa4-36 (951)
280		670		384

The number of glyphs on side a is 670 and on side b 664, together 1334. The distance between Ab4-36 and Aa4-36 is also 670 (= 384 + 286) glyphs, and the distance from Aa4-36 up to and including Ab4-36 is 384 + 280 = 664 glyphs.

If a 'cut' (koti) in the text is done to the right of Ab4-36 a reasonable interpretation is that 140 days now are in the past. To the right side of 670 glyphs in the center we find 384 glyphs (and also beyond Ab4-36 to the end of side b). By dividing the number of glyphs by 2, to convert into days, we will have the ubiquitous 192 days.

The last 4 days of the 140-day season beginning with viri at Ab1-1 we recognize from our previous hanau research. The 4 days are described by the 8 first glyphs of the 14 we have considered as a group (= henua periods 4-5):


Ab4-29	Ab4-30	Ab4-31	Ab4-32
137		138

Ab4-33	Ab4-34	Ab4-35	Ab4-36 (280)
139		140

Probably Ab4-33--36 should be regarded as a period separate from Ab4-37--42, we can now conclude.

At the other side of the tablet Aa4-36 is the first half of a day, and we maybe should begin counting anew with Ab4-37 as glyph number 1 in order to reach reasonably low day numbers:


Aa4-36 (671)	Aa4-37	Aa4-38	Aa4-39	Aa4-40	Aa4-41
day 336		(day 337)		(day 338)

I have put day 337 and day 338 within parenthesis, because the words of Metoro suggest a new point of departure at Aa4-39, ki uta ki te pito o te henua (away from the sea, to the navel of the land). A rising fish at Aa4-41 is in harmony with this interpretation. Metoro said pito only 5 times during his reading of the 4 tablets.

This proves that by counting new insights can develop. 36 and 42 presumably allude to 360 and 420, where 360 = 6 * 60 and 420 = 7 * 60 (the '7th flame of the sun' added to 360).

420 - 140 = 280. Koti at Ab4-36 can be regarded as the station ⅓ of the way to 420 days.

The glyphs, on the other hand, rather suggest that it its the halfway station which has been reached:


Ab4-29

Ab4-30	Ab4-31	Ab4-32

Ab4-33

Ab4-34	Ab4-35	Ab4-36 (280)


Ab4-37	Ab4-38

Ab4-39	Ab4-40	Ab4-41	Ab4-42 (286)

Two 'quarters' (each inaugurated by a curious toki sign - the 'reverse' of koti) are followed by the 2nd part of the year, where 2 tagata signs are integrated with toki evolved even longer. The long necks in Ab4-29 and Ab4-33 are followed by people standing up and shorter necks.

In Ab4-37 a toa sign is held high, presumably meaning 'the season of straw'. In Ab4-38 tagata is not only a sign but the basic glyph, probably meaning the cycle is completed in the 4th 'quarter'.

Counting only the glyphs which have no toki sign (the blue glyphs), we have this structure:

1	3	6	10
2	3
3-4	4

But the division (2-view) is beginning already in the 2nd of the 'quarters', indicated by the appendix hanging at right in Ab4-34:


Ab4-34	Ab4-35	Ab4-36 (280)

With koti as the 6th of the glyphs without toki, only ⅔ of 6 remain.