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TRANSLATIONS
In K there must be 23 glyphs before number 24 occurs, and with 24 as the first glyph in the 1st period in a sequence of equally long periods, and with a total length of 192 = 8 * 24 glyphs, the last of the periods will be only 24 - 23 = 1 day. It is unavoidable:
In contrast, in the 'net' of G there is an undulation between 30 and 29. The 'zero' period is 1 less than 30, quite the same phenomenon as in K. But this 1 does not reappear at the end (as in K), because the number of glyphs in G is not 16 * 29.5 = 472 - it is one less:
Not only is there 1 glyph 'missing' at the end - there are 2 glyphs 'missing'. Because with only 1 glyph 'missing', the last period (One Tea) would have 29 days (glyphs) and the expected final period with 1 glyph would be absent. The explanation is the undulation between 30 and 29. Because both the first true period (Te Piringa Aniva) and One Tea are 29-glyph periods. At Te Piringa Aniva we count 1 * 29.5 = 29.5, but we must continue to Ga1-30. At One Tea we count 15 * 29.5 = 442.5, but we must continue to Gb8-2. We have found that the K text probably should be divided into 16 periods. ... 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) ... The first glyph line in K has 24 glyphs, which is in agreement with the suggestion that we should count to multiples of 12 instead of multiples of 24 - it is easy to imagine 24 as equal to twice 12. There should be two turns on the timepiece before next 'day' arrives. Let us therefore update the K table:
It looks good. Number 169 (ika hiku, the 'tail fish') initiates the last of the double-periods (the 15th of the periods - one more than the full measure of 14 periods):
In G another such glyph arrives 15 positions later, but the text of K is different:
I have also redmarked the 'fire generator' which is given a place at the end of the 5th (of course!) period and has 3-14 as an allusion to π. 60 glyphs means 60 days, i.e. after two 30-day months (= 5 * 12 days) light will come back again. In G it coincides with the beginning of Te Kioe Uri:
The 'Black Rat' stands at the end of the dark period and is involved in creating new light, I imagine. The body of moa shouting in Ga3-3 is shaped like a flame, and the ordinal numbers 60-64 presumably allude to 360-364. If so, then the periods remaining is 300 days or 10 times 30. In manu kake (Ga3-1) the left side has a shorter wing and a shorter neck than the right side. We can interpret it to mean that in the forward direction (right) the sky roof will be higher than in the past (left). Another manu kake comes later, in which the opposite phenomenon is indicated:
In K there is only one manu kake:
132 - 104 = 28. Furthermore, 472 - 192 = 280, which maybe indicates that G describes 10 months à 28 illuminated nights which have no room in K. |
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