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TRANSLATIONS
When sometimes my ambition is limited to only document and make clear, my subconscious mind takes the opportunity to focus attention on important facts which have been missed. Thus, the complex chain of events which followed when the limit of Hatinga Te Kohe was changed from Gb5-1 to Gb4-33 and the limit was redefined as the beginning and not the end, ultimately lead to an observation of the probable role of Aa8-80. The map at the outset, before these changes, seemed, though, to be rather reasonable:
At bottom in Aa8-80 there are two rhombs which are one, then comes a break (time runs upwards in the history of growth) followed by a single rhomb. In the scheme of the kuhane voyage I had associated this break with the break defined by 354 (at Hatinga Te Kohe). But Aa8-80 now became relocated and in the new map it is embedded in Akahanga:
It is valuable to see the glyphs in both texts at once. Gb4-4 corresponds to Aa8-64--65 and the 3 + 3 feather marks are arranged as left / right (past / future) in G, while in A the creator seems to have preferred a vertical distinction between past and future arranged as 4 + 4. At left (in the past) there are 3 'stones' half visible, while in front there appears to be a moon number (4 waxing and 4 waning). Gb4-4 can be read as 4 + 4 = 8. Alternatively we can read Gb4-4 as 4 * 4 = 16, and 8 * 64 in Aa8-64 as 512 = 16 * 32. In that case 16 may be referring to the moon and 32 to the sun - 16 by being 1/4 of 64 (8 * 8) and 32 by being half 64. The light of the moon can be imagined as stretching 16 days (waxing), while the light from the sun must be halved (he is on the other side half his time both in the diurnal and in the yearly cycle). If moon is left in charge beyond midsummer, she is not up to the task until Hatinga Te Kohe. 32 (sun) + 16 (sun king) + 16 (moon) = 64. In days: 177 + 88.5 + 88.5 = 354, which does not agree (because fractions cannot be permitted). The cycle must instead be for instance 360: 180 + 90 + 90 = 360. Or 364: 182 + 91 + 91. We should pinpoint Aa8-80 in Akahanga:
Still it is difficult to take it in. There are so many signs which must be contemplated in due course. Judging from viri in Ab1-1 a new time should begin beyond the first 12 days of Akahanga:
Yet, at the beginning of Hatinga Te Kohe there is a split between the old and new times:
... From Aa8-80 to Ab1-37 there are 6 + 36 = 42 glyphs [i.e. 3 weeks]. 670 - 6 = 664 = the number of glyphs on side b. 664 - 36 = 628 = 200π. I.e., 1334 = 400π + 36 + 42 ... The old sun expires, I think, already in Hua Reva (in the 10th lunar month). In the following Akahanga he is buried and after 12 days a new little viri announces a new time count. The old count ended with the cut-off viri in Aa8-26 (in Hua Reva). 1275 is the measure from the little up to and including the cut-off viri glyph. 1334 - 1275 = 59, the gap in time from the cut-off viri to the little one. 59 = 2 * 29.5, one lunar month. Two full cycles (400π) extend for 2 * 628 = 1256 glyphs. Aa8-80 presumably is telling us that the 2nd cycle is ending, there is a gap, and then the 1st cycle will begin again. It ought to be the two cycles of the sun (in contrast to the moon cycle ending at 354). Side a has 670 glyphs, and we can count 670 + 36 (at the beginning of side b) = 706. If we then reduce by 6 (at the end of side a) we reach 700. Side b has 664 glyphs, and we can count 664 - 36 = 628 (200π). Side b could represent the sun cycle when he is present, the 36 last signs (18 last days) of Akahanga could refer to the same sun cycle of next year, but only in Hatinga Te Kohe will the sun fish rise again. The lunar year (354) terminates at Ab1-38, because the lunar and the solar years must be coordinated at the beginning of the year. The solution is to let 36 glyphs at the beginning of side b represent the last phase of the lunar year and let the new cycle begin only when Hatinga Te Kohe has been reached. In this light Hatinga Te Kohe means that moon is breaking the old cycle. Moon determines when the new cycle can begin. |
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