TRANSLATIONS
It should be possible to redmark also Roto Iri Are:
This is the only multiple of 29.5 glyph which is tagata - a full 'man' has been counted. As a 'proof' I refer to the number of glyphs in K, viz. *192. We know that the texts of G and K are parallel, and that 192 = ½ 384. And we can be fairly certain that the year was described as two cycles, with one beginning in midwinter and the other in high summer. The text of K has such kiore+henua glyphs which indicate the first of the two cycles. 192 corresponds to the midpoint of Nga Kope Ririva (177 + 15 = 192), or 6½ kuhane stations. But that may be irrelevant. 192 = 2 * 96 = 4 * 48 = 8 * 24. On The Eighth Island it is probable that the text of K was divided into 8 sections (i.e. half those 16 divisions of G). Let us 'cast' such a 'net' on K:
We can note that 7 * 24 = 168 = 12 * 14 occur in K, and the glyphs concur with the special occasion:
In G the halfway point to 360 has been reached and it happens in Nga Kope Ririva. Instead of 12 * 14 (= 168) the ordinal number is 12 * 15 (= 180). The common factor is 12, which indicates each cycle should be divided into 12 parts. Thus the multiples of 24 in the table above correspond to multiples of 59 in G - each multiple should be divided in two. Then the number of periods will be 16 (exactly as in the full text of G). 13 * 28 = 364 is the result if we double 168 (reaching 12 * 28 = 336) and then add an odd period (in a way corresponding to Roto Iri Are). This may be a better way to describe 364 than identifying it as 26 fortnights or as 52 weeks. The serpent should not be hidden. |