TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

I cannot yet in the glyph dictionary mention the cycle of Venus. It is not necessary for Hua Reva, and it is all very complicated anyhow.

But it is necessary to introduce the possible connection between Hua Reva and the North Star. I need to change in the text.

I will redmark Gb2-29 and then delete the following table and text counting to 29 from Gb2-27 as number zero. I must keep it as easy as possible. This is the new updated page:

Hua Reva

During the waxing phase of the moon it is observed rising from a beginning at the horizon in the west towards full moon and zenith. The Mamari moon calendar has evidently located the night Ohua as glyph 26 of those 36 needed to reach Omotohi (full moon). Both according to Englert and Métraux Ohua is the night immediately before Otua (or Atua), i.e. night number 9 respectively 12.

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.

Below are listed 6 * 5 = 30 glyphs:


Gb2-27	Gb2-28	Gb2-29 (285)	Gb2-30	Gb2-31

Gb2-32	Gb2-33	Gb2-34 (290)	Gb2-35	Gb3-1

Gb3-2	Gb3-3	Gb3-4 (295)	Gb3-5	Gb3-6

Gb3-7	Gb3-8	Gb3-9 (300)	Gb3-10	Gb3-11

Gb3-12	Gb3-13	Gb3-14 (305)	Gb3-15	Gb3-16

Gb3-17	Gb3-18	Gb3-19 (310)	Gb3-20	Gb3-21

Gb2-35 has an arrangment of hua poporo presumably illustrating that sun has only 3 quarters (berries), how at the top (midsummer) one berry seems to be lost, and how at bottom right (the last quarter) another berry is missing.

The oval in Gb3-5 looks like the moon in the night Ohua, not quite like a sphere yet.

The very last glyph in what presumably is the longest of the calendar cycles in G has number 496 (= 16 * 31). 10 * 30.5 = 305 is Gb3-14, certainly alluding to π, meaning a cycle has ended. As a confirmation we find its ordinal number beyond Gb2-27 to be 22 (hinting at the formula π = 22 / 7). Moreover, from 305 up to and including 496 there are 192 glyphs, an important number, which here aquires the property of being very close to 2 * 22 / 7 * 30.5 (= 191.71).

A new season is about to be born in Gb3-13, because sun is going away and a new cycle will take its beginning at Gb3-14. Its length is 192 days = the circumference of a circle with radius 30½. There is a hole instead of an eye in Gb3-14, and an empty space is illustrated also in Gb3-16.

Gb3-9 is characterized by ominous numbers (a triplet of 9 and 17). The glyph depicts how tapa mea is transformed into a verocious gap, filled with teeth (9 of them). The idea is that sun will be swallowed. The following glyph stands beyond the limit (1 more than the full measure 300 days for the sun) - 8 feathers at left are balanced by 8 at right.

Hua Reva is an important station. Probably the 10th Tahitian 'pillar', the North Star, is the destination of the spirit of the sun going upwards.

I have also changed a few details and then added the redmarked text, with a hyperlink in order to describe the relationship between Hua Reva and Ana-nia:

The North Star

We do not know the name of the North Star on Easter Island, but on Tahiti it was Ana-nia (the pillar high up), the 10th and last of the 'pillars'.

Ana-nia, pillar-to-fish-by

North Star, α Ursae Minoris

89° 02' 01h 49

Although it is very near the point with declination 90º, it anyhow circulates around the pole. Any 'fixed' point on the sky 'roof' must rotate, even the imaginary infinitesimal point of the pole itself. Its rectascension is 1h 49, a fact which is important. Because south of the equator 0h is autumn equinox, which means Ana-nia should rise in the east 27 days beyond day 270 (= the theoretical autumn equinox counted as ¾ of 360 days).

If we disregard the 49 minutes, we can add 270 + 15 and reach day 285, which is possible to locate as glyph number 285 in the text of G (given we count from Gb8-30), if we include also the 49 minutes, we arrive at Gb3-6:


Gb2-27	Gb2-28	Gb2-29 (285)	Gb2-30	Gb2-31


Gb3-2	Gb3-3	Gb3-4	Gb3-5	Gb3-6 (297)

We are at Hua Reva. The very high neck in Gb2-29 alludes to the North Star. The pe'i fish is drawn up from the deepest point in the sea to the highest point in the sky.

We can identify the 'fish being uplifted' kuhane station with the 10th Tahitian 'pillar', the 'pillar to fish by' (Ana-nia, the North Star). At Hua Reva sun is quickly hoisted up to the North Pole, presumably to be reborn north of the equator at this time (or somewhat later).

"... the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ..." (Hamlet's Mill)

Irrespective of this rule sun goes north at Hua Reva. He does not go to the south pole, because that is where he has been since Te Pei.