The hanau glyph type is used at times when 'birth'
is taking place. The person depicted is sitting down with legs
apart.
What
more specific the time is can often be seen by
supplementary signs, e.g.:
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Ab4-29 |
Aa4-55 |
Ab1-37 |
toes at right |
Y held high |
hanau
between ihe tau and reversed ihe tau |
Toes visible
could mean that sun is shining, and the high neck in Ab4-29 suggests
midsummer. A toa (Y) sign
held high at right means the 'season of straw' is arriving. Ab1-37
has ordinal number 707 counted from Aa1-1, which can be interpreted
as the first half of the 354th day (counting 2 glyphs per day), i.e.
it probably stands at Hatinga Te Kohe (the breaking of
the staff), last station of the sun (12 * 29.5 = 354).
When
a hanau glyph has no visible 'offspring' it may be because
the glyph is in the vicinity of another hanau glyph with shows such a 'fruit', and
the meaning then could be 'season of birth' rather than 'birth'.
Or it
may be because the hanau sign is used not 'literally' but as a
method to draw attention to a new season which is on its way.
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Probably it is the moon who is
born at Hatinga Te Kohe. At Ab4-29 and at Aa4-55 some other person is
being born. A gradual development can be seen, beginning with Ab3-62:
The 'baby' is growing with time,
given that we begin counting from Ab1-1 (not as when counting to Hatinga
Te Kohe). The first phase comes with Ab3-62, and this is the way I once
tried to divide the text into more manageable pieces:
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Ab3-48 |
Ab3-49 |
Ab3-50 |
Ab3-51 |
Ab3-52 |
Ab3-53 |
Ab3-54 |
Ab3-55 |
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Ab3-56 |
Ab3-57 |
Ab3-58 |
Ab3-59 |
Ab3-60 |
Ab3-61 |
Ab3-62 |
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Ab3-63 |
Ab3-64 |
Ab3-65 |
Ab3-66 |
Ab3-67 |
Rei at Ab3-60 (surely
suggesting 360) is preceded by a vae kore exhibiting a prominent
'heel'. I have listed 29 vae kore glyphs in Tahua:
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Aa1-1 |
Aa1-9 |
Aa1-10 |
Aa1-63 |
Aa1-76 |
Aa1-79 |
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Aa2-11 |
Aa2-19 |
Aa4-31 |
Aa4-33 |
Aa4-71 |
Aa5-1 |
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Aa5-75 |
Aa6-5 |
Aa6-6 |
Aa6-31 |
Aa6-48 |
Ab1-73 |
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Ab3-14 |
Ab3-22 |
Ab3-28 |
Ab3-59 |
Ab3-68 |
Ab4-22 |
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Ab5-22 |
Ab5-34 |
Ab5-65 |
Ab6-8 |
Ab6-14 |
Also Ab3-68 has this type of heel,
and it initiates a 24 glyph long interesting sequence ending
with - which surprised me to find - one more of those henua-ending glyphs
we have been studying:
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Ab3-68 |
Ab4-14 |
But I do not have to change
anything of what I wrote in the glyph dictionary about the 8 'periods'
ending by henua and some other sign, because the discussion began by
comparing the first 3 of those 8 periods with the parallels in G and K.
Anyhow the table presented at the
beginning of that discussion is in need of updating for various reasons:
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6 |
5 |
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Ab4-15 |
Ab4-20 |
Ab4-33 |
Ab4-42 |
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6 |
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5 |
Ab4-21 |
Ab4-23 |
Ab4-43 |
Ab4-47 |
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5 |
7 |
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10 |
Ab4-24 |
Ab4-28 |
Ab4-48 |
Ab4-57 |
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8 |
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Ab4-29 |
Ab4-32 |
Ab4-58 |
Ab4-62 |
sum number of glyphs |
18 |
sum number of glyphs |
30 |
The first adjustment must be to
include a new first period, which I guess will contain 8 (up to and
including Ab3-67) + 24 = 32 glyphs:
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Ab3-60 (1) |
Ab4-14 (32) |
Ab4-15 (1) |
Ab4-20 (6) |
227 |
258 |
259 |
264 |
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Ab4-21 (1) |
Ab4-28 (8) |
Ab4-29 (1) |
Ab4-42 (14) |
265 |
272 |
273 |
286 = 226 + 60 |
32 + 6 + 8 + 14 = 60 are all even
numbers, and they can be translated into 16 + 3 + 4 + 7 = 30 days. Probably
the Rei glyphs tell us there are only two sequences, 16
respectively 14 days long. Therefore, the previous discussion in the glyph
dictionary was not so bad:
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Ab3-60 (1) |
Ab4-14 (32) |
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Ab4-15 (33) |
Ab4-20 (38) |
Ab4-21 (39) |
Ab4-28 (46) |
Ab4-29 (47) |
Ab4-42 (60) |
We can see a pattern - sun rules
the first 32 glyph long sequence and moon the second 28 glyph long sequence.
Could it mean that in a solar calendar with 30 days in each month the
first 16 days are the sun's and the final 14 days the moon's? I believe that
is a good proposal. There is also a symmetry with 260 respectively 140. The last week of the month will
then begin with Ab4-29, where the next month's sun will be born:
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Ab4-29 (47) |
Ab4-30 |
Ab4-31 |
Ab4-32 |
24 |
25 |
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Ab4-33 |
Ab4-34 |
Ab4-35 |
Ab4-36 (280) |
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27 |
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Aa4-37 |
Aa4-38 |
Ab4-39 |
Ab4-40 |
28 |
29 |
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Ab4-41 |
Ab4-42 (60) |
30 |