TRANSLATIONS
There are only 10 Tahitian 'pillars', maybe
because of an ancient system with 10 months:
... Hua Reva
means that the 'fruit' (hua)
is being uplifted (reva),
but the 'fruit' is not the moon. It is the spirit of the sun who is uplifted
towards the sky like a fish from the sea. 10 * 29.5 = 295 is the location of
the
kuhane
station
Hua
Reva. Or
counted according to regular sun months: 10 * 30 = 300 ...
We could now add: Or counted according to
Ana-nia - 10 * 28.5 = 285. Yet, there is also a sign of 28:
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Gb2-27 (283) |
Gb4-17 (338) |
56 = 2 * 28 |
The page reva is due:
Reva
indicates the upper regions:
Reva
To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva,
1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the
background of the landscape, such a person standing on
top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te
maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of
shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o
te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in
the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga.
To hang, to suspend, flag, banner;
hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up,
to balance; hakarevareva, to wave. T Pau.:
reva, a flag; fakarevareva, to hang up, to
suspend. Mgv.: reva, a flag, a signal. Mq.:
éva, to hang up, to be suspended, to wave a signal.
Ta.: reva, a flag, banner; revareva, to
wave. The germ sense is that of being suspended ... any
light object hung up in the island air under the steady
tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification
involved in the wave sense is no more than normal
observation. Churchill.
Mgv.: 1. A plant. Ta.: reva,
id. Mq.: eva, id. Sa.: leva, id. Ma.:
rewa-rewa, id. 2. To cross, to pass across quickly;
revaga, departure. Ta.: reva, to go away,
to depart. Ma.: reva, to get under way.
Churchill.
Ta.: The firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.:
lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere,
the visible heavens. Churchill. |
"LEWA,
s. Haw., the upper air, region of
clouds; v. to swing, float in the
air, move back and forth; hoo-lewa,
to vibrate, float in the air, carry
between two persons, as a corpse, a
funeral.
Tah.,
rewa, the firmanent, an abyss;
rewa-rewa, to fly about, as a flag.
Mangr.,
rewa, the overhanging firmanent,
a tent, a flag.
N. Zeal.,
rewa, the eyelid.
Marqu.,
ewa, to suspend; s. the
middle.
Sam.,
leva (of time), long since; v.
be protracted.
Fiji.,
rewa, high, height; vaka-rewa,
to lift up, to hoist, as a sail.
Malg.,
lifa, v. to fan oneself, s.
flight; rafraf, a fan.
Goth.,
luftus, the air.
Sax.,
lyfti, air, arch, vault.
O. Engl.,
lift, air.
Lat.,
limbus (?), fringe, flounce.
Sanskr.,
dev, div, primarily
'jacere, jaculare', according to A.
Pictet (Orig. Ind.-Eur., ii. 466),
subsequently 'to play at dice', play
generally. The permutation of d
and l may be observed in the
Latin levir, brother-in-law (the
husband's younger brother) = Sanskr.
devŗi,
devara,
id.
If
dev
or div
has derived the sense of 'throwing dice'
from an older sense 'jacere, jaculare',
to throw, to hurl, that sense may be a
derivative from a still older one, 'to
lift up, swing about, be suspended' =
the Polynesian
lewa,
rewa,
'to be suspended, to vibrate'. And thus
we can also understand the origin of the
Goth. luftus,
the Sax. lyfte,
the O. Norse
loft,
Swed. lowera,
lofwa,
Engl. luff."
(Fornander)
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The basic idea is
that the sky 'fish' (moon, sun etc) is ready to be lifted up from
the watery region (which for the sun comes at Te Pei). The Maya indians
are helpful by their 'adaptation' of the phases of Venus:
phase |
observed periods |
periods in the Mayan 'map' |
difference |
morning star |
263 |
236 |
- 27 |
black |
50 |
90 |
+ 40 |
evening star |
263 |
250 |
- 13 |
black |
8 |
8 |
0 |
sum |
584 |
584 |
0 |
Te Pei at 8 * 29.5 = 236 is the last day of the first
half (472 / 2 = 236), the 'morning', of the year, and then it
turns around:
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Gb1-6 (236) |
Gb1-7 |
Sun is being 'driven out, banished' (pei) from the island
and he becomes a 'tasty fish' (pe'i) which can be caught
in the 'deep waters'. Down there it is completely black.
A
quarter later it is time to take him up again. The cycle cannot
stop. He will become an 'evening star'. 236 + 90 = 326 or close
to Akahanga at 11 * 29.5 = 324.5. The spirit of the sun
goes up into the night sky already at Hua Reva, his body
is then buried at Akahanga.
But his skull is taken care of separately, in order to be
completely dried out and later hanged high in the daytime sky
again:
...
Ure Honu was
amazed and said, 'How beautiful you are! In the head of the new
bananas is a skull, painted with yellow root and with a strip of
barkcloth around it.'
Ure Honu
stayed for a while, (then) he went away and covered the roof of
his house in Vai Matā. It was a new house. He took the
very large skull, which he had found at the head of the banana
plantation, and hung it up in the new house. He tied it up in
the framework of the roof (hahanga) and left it hanging
there ...
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Not only the skull
has been dried out completely, also the thatching on the roof of the new
house must be dry. It is a sign of the end of the year. 236 + 250 = 486 = 2 * 263 is the
number of days when Venus adorns the sky, the time when sun is shining on her. We need
to count more than a cycle around the text of G to reach 486:
a1 |
14 |
30 |
b1 |
26 |
16 |
a2 |
29 |
b2 |
35 |
a3 |
24 |
b3 |
30 |
a4 |
27 |
b4 |
33 |
a5 |
30 |
b5 |
29 |
a6 |
29 |
b6 |
28 |
a7 |
34 |
b7 |
31 |
a8 |
26 |
b8 |
30 |
sum |
229 (230) |
sum |
242 (472) |
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Ga1-11 |
Ga1-12 |
Ga1-13 |
Ga1-14 (486) |
Ga1-15 |
Ga1-16 |
The symmetrical
arrangement suggests we should focus on Ga1-13 at 485 = 5 * 97.
Also, the ordinal number -14 indicates a new season should begin there (i.e.
the old season should end with Ga1-13). The message is foremost one of ending,
though there are 3 'feathers' in front (spring).
16½ * 29.5 = 486.75, which measure indicates Ga1-16, another
spirit being lifted up to heaven. (16½ - 10) * 29.5 = 191.75 or rather 192.
The hanau glyph type (cfr Ga1-12 and Ga1-14) occurs
also at Hua Reva, 200 glyphs earlier:
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Gb2-27 |
Gb2-28 |
Gb2-29 |
Gb2-30 |
Gb2-31 (287) |
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196 |
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1 |
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Gb2-31 (287) |
Ga1-12 (484) |
Ga1-14 (486) |
200 |
Does the hanau
glyph type says that somebody is being uplifted from the water into the sky?
250, the Mayan evening star measure, is equal to the sun square (25) times
10. It has also been noted in the text of G. It must be at Gb1-20 (we are
never more going to change the counting from Gb8-30), the last glyph before
the extraordinary Gb1-21:
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Gb1-14 |
Gb1-15 |
Gb1-16 |
Gb1-17 |
Gb1-18 |
Gb1-19 |
Gb1-20 (250) |
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Gb1-21 |
Gb1-22 |
Gb1-23 |
Gb1-24 |
Gb1-25 |
Gb1-21 stands at
the beginning of a new season.
We have not ventured beyond 496 (= 486 + 10) earlier. Let us have a look at
glyph number 500:
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Ga1-20 |
Ga1-21 |
Ga1-22 |
Ga1-23 |
Ga1-24 (496) |
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Ga1-25 |
Ga1-26 |
Ga1-27 |
Ga1-28 (500) |
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Ga1-29 |
Ga1-30 |
Evidently 500 announces the
arrival of Te Piringa Aniva.
We have not calculated with 236 + 90 + 250 = 576.
We must do that (and also add a final 8 to reach the full cycle 584):
576 - 472 = 104 (= 4 * 26). 30 (a1) + 29 (a2) + 24 (a3) + 21
(a5) = 104:
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Ga5-17 |
Ga5-18 |
Ga5-19 |
Ga5-20 |
Ga5-21 (576) |
20 |
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Ga5-22 |
Ga5-23 |
Ga5-24 |
Ga5-25 |
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Ga5-26 |
Ga5-27 |
Ga5-28 |
Ga5-29 (584) |
From there a new 'earth' will rise
again:
21 |
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Ga5-30 |
Ga6-1 |
Ga6-2 |
Ga6-3 |
Ga6-4 |
22 |
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Ga6-5 (590) |
Ga6-6 |
Ga6-7 |
Ga6-8 |
It seems clear that the Mayan
structure for Venus was known and used by the creator of the G text. 20
times 29.5 = 590 fits rather well with the Venus cycle 584.
The meaning with 10 months (instead of 12 or 13) in a year is now even more
clear than before. Not only are 10 the number of fingers ('fire') but also
half the cycle determined by Venus.
584 / 2 = 292 (=
192 + 100) and we can see a connection between Gb3-1 (the 10th glyph of
Hua Reva) and Gb3-4:
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Gb2-27 |
Gb2-28 |
Gb2-29 (North Star) |
Gb2-30 |
Gb2-31 |
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Gb2-32 |
Gb2-33 |
Gb2-34 (290) |
Gb2-35 |
Gb3-1 (Venus) |
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Gb3-2 |
Gb3-3 |
Gb3-4 (Moon) |
Gb3-5 |
Gb3-6 |
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Gb3-7 |
Gb3-8 |
Gb3-9 (300) |
Gb3-10 |
Gb3-11 |
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Gb3-12 |
Gb3-13 |
Gb3-14 (305) |
Gb3-15 |
Gb3-16 |
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Gb3-17 |
Gb3-18 |
Gb3-19 (310) |
Gb3-20 |
Gb3-21 |
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