TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Kava comes first, then vaka:

... At the end of the old year, when old sun has stopped moving and a new one is needed, the whole community is engaged in activities preparing for the new year, sweeping out all the old. So it was among the Maya and so it presumably was also on Easter Island.

... the name [Vindler, one of the epithets of Heimdall] is a subform of vindill and comes from vinda, to twist or turn, wind, to turn anything around rapidly. As the epithet 'the turner' is given to that god who brought friction-fire (bore-fire) to man, and who is himself the personification of this fire, then it must be synonymous with 'the borer' ...

The Sibyl's prophecy does not end with the catastrophes, but it moves from the tragic to the lydic mode, to sing of the dawning of the new age:

Now do I see / the Earth anew / Rise all green / from the waves again ... / Then fields unsowed / bear ripened fruit / All ills grow better ...

The ceremonies held reflect what is happening up in the sky. A new fire on earth will be in harmony with a new fire in the sky. Kava will make the eyes more sensitive, generating an illusion of returning light.

Possibly the kava glyph type sometimes illustrates a bolt of lightning. At other times the glyph type may depict a ginger root.

The kava glyph type seems to have been used in the rongorongo calendars to mark where the new fire is generated ...

... Churchill has pointed out that kavakava (rib) is related to vakavaka:

"P Mgv.: vakavaka, the breast. Mq.: vakavaka, vaávaá, rib. Ma.: wakawaka, parallel ridges. We shall need all the available material in order to determine the germ sense of this word. Sa.: va'ava'a, the breast-bone of a bird; fa'ava'a, the frame as of a slate. To.: vakavaka, the side. Fu.: vakavaka, the side below the armpit. Ha.: hoowaa, to make furrows.

In all these we may see the idea of ridge or depression, or of both, as primal (Rapanui, Samoa, Marquesas, Maori, Hawaii), and as secondary the part of the body where such appearance is common (Mangareva, Tonga, Futuna)."

Eve was created from the rib of Adam. The 'canoe' (tao) is - like the earth oven - heated from the fire of dry wood (toa).

In Aa8-31, the 5th (fire) glyph beyond viri with a 'lopped off head' (Aa8-26) should be followed by a tao glyph:

3			53			520		752
	Aa8-30	Aa8-31		Aa8-85	Ab1-1		Ab7-26		Aa8-26
*2 29**				*522 = 18 29**			*754 = 26 29**

I have listed these 7 glyphs (following Aa8-31) with tao:


Ab2-80	Ab3-71	Ab3-73 (240)	Ab3-74

Ab4-41	Ab4-76	Ab7-16

240 is the ordinal number counted from Ab1-1, which means that from Aa8-31 the ordinal number will be 54 + 240 = 294 = 7 * 42. If we add 239 + 240 + 241 = 3 * 240 = 720, and then also 54, we will reach 774 = 18 * 43.

In G we can look in the other direction - where, before the two tao glyphs, is kava?:

	258						208
Gb1-6		Ga1-22 (1)	Ga1-23	Ga1-24	Ga1-25	Ga1-26
	*261 = 9 29**
*472 = 16 29 + 8 (= 16 * 29.5)**

I have listed 3 kava glyphs in G, and they are located in the last quarter of the text:


Gb5-25	Gb6-3	Gb7-31
379	386	442

The glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30 (which means the last glyph in line b4 will have number 354 = 12 * 29.5). Counting from Gb5-25 to Ga1-22 we have 472 - 379 + 22 = 115 = 5 * 23 glyphs. If we add 3 more (to reach Ga1-25 - with the same ordinal number in the line as Gb5-25) the number will be 118:

	117
Gb5-25		Ga1-25
379		497
*118 = 4 29.5**

From Gb6-3 the distance is 118 - 7 = 111, and from Gb7-31 it is 118 - 63 = 55 (= 5 * 11). Counting instead to Ga1-22 we get 108 respectively 52, quite important numbers both of them. While Gb5-25 seems to be related to Ga1-25, Gb6-3 and Gb7-31 may rather be connected with Gb5-22 (where 22 = 2 * 11).

The glyph type kava is, it seems, a picture of the twists and turns necessary for moving forward into next 'limb' of the 'land' (in timespace):


kava	henua