TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The summary page:

The maitaki (beautiful) glyph seems to refer to the high sky ruling the first half of the year.

The glyph is divided by a straight vertical time line, with at left the past and at right the future.

Often the future is different from the past, and then the differences are illustrated by the sizes and forms of the 'balls'. An extreme example is Aa6-68 which describes the end of spring time and the onset of the season of rain and low clouds:


Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68

At the new year break in time the distance between the old and new years is illustrated by henua instead of a vertical string, as e.g. in Eb6-1:


Eb5-35	Eb6-1	Eb6-2

Excursion:

The 'thunder twins' in G.

I cannot continue longer than this before coming to the summary page, I think. But much more needs to be done with maitaki, therefore the excursion.

From Gb8-6 to Gb8-30 there are 24 glyphs. If we add them to 236 we reach 260:

	23		234
Gb8-6		Gb8-30		Gb1-6
*260 = 13 20**

The sacred Mayan tzolkin has 20 daynames combined with the numbers 1 - 13. Definitely something similar is to be found before Gb1-7. My difficulties with assigning kuhane stations before Te Pei perhaps depend on this.

The first excursion page:

The Thunder Twins mentioned in Thursday could represent two seasons following the 'deluge' in high summer. In midwinter the two 'years' are sitting low and back-to-back like Janus, but in high summer (Hb9-42) they are standing and united, face-to-face:


Hb9-40	Hb9-41	Hb9-42	Hb9-43	Hb9-44	Hb9-45	Hb9-46

Lightning (kava) comes with the rain clouds, and the Thunder Twins could be two equally long seasons in the 2nd half of the year.

I have listed 26 glyphs in G as maitaki. Two of them are relevant in the present discussion, the only ones which combine maitaki and henua:


Ga5-5	Gb4-3

Admittedly Gb4-3 is far from obvious. The head of tagata is a sign of maitaki and at right (below the 'waves') is a sign which I once classified as henua. Nothing else is suitable according to my system of classification. But it is a 'ghostly' henua.


Ga1-17	Ga1-21	Ga3-11	Ga3-17	Ga4-20	Ga5-5

Ga5-10	Ga5-13	Ga7-8	Ga7-14	Ga7-18	Ga7-19

Ga7-24	Ga8-6	Ga8-10	Ga8-17	Ga8-21	Ga8-26

Gb2-22	Gb4-3	Gb4-26	Gb4-27	Gb6-5	Gb7-23

Gb7-30	Gb8-17

I seem to have assembled these maitaki glyphs correctly, because they number 26:

5		13		6
	Ga5-5		Gb4-3
26

Half of them (13) lie between the key glyphs.19 come before Gb4-3. The distribution of maitaki appears to be rather even according to this. However, only 8 are on side b. Only 7 if we regard Gb8-17 as part of the 'tzolkin'.

Gb4-27 is not drawn as powerful as Ga3-17, Ga5-13, and Ga8-6. Indeed there is a difference also between the latter three:


Ga3-17	Ga5-13	Ga8-6	Gb4-27
medium	strong		weak

We ought to count:

	46		85		137		124	76
Ga3-17 (77)		Ga5-13 (124)		Ga8-6 (210)		Gb4-27 (348)
*272 = 4 68**							*200 = 4 50**

The last of these maitaki is weak and it is connected with the preceding 'running away' glyph:

				20
Gb4-1 (322)	Gb4-2	Gb4-3	Gb4-4	20	Gb4-25	Gb4-26	Gb4-27	Gb4-28 (349)
28

Perhaps a figure running away means exactly that - he is leaving abruptly. In Aa1-3--4 it will then mean that the 'sky' (ragi) is running away, implicitly meaning the dark winter sky:


Aa1-3	Aa1-4

The 'beak' is like a thorn (tara), presumably saying 'deluge' (tarai = watery part of the year). I once decided Ga1-1 has a tara glyph type sign at top right, and it could be a correct decision:


Ga1-1	Ga1-2	Ga1-3	Ga1-4	Ga1-5

The last vai glyph is Gb8-11, and the hand held high is empty:


Ga5-7	Gb2-27	Gb3-5	Gb3-25	Gb4-2	Gb4-23	Gb8-11