TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The first page of honui:

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. When I classified glyphs according to type it was the hole in the center of the glyph which I decided to use as a characteristic of the honui type. A consequence is that such a glyph as e.g. Bb11-20 was classified as honui:

Bb11-20

It is primarily, though, a glyph of the ariga erua type. It is also listed as such.

Another instance of glyphs on the border line between one type and another is a number of honu glyphs with holes in them. Such, however, I have not listed as honui, only as honu. Examples:


Gb3-15	Qa6-12	Na3-105	Wa3-102

Cb6-13	Db1-108	Ga7-26	I1-18

Clearly the hole can have different qualities, it can be large or small or medium in size, it can be regular or irregular, and there can be more than one hole. Such variations indicate the presence of signs.

Honu glyphs with holes in them are not listed as honui because they have not the tagata characteristics. If there were no holes in the honui glyphs most of them would have been classified as tagata. Glyphs which look like tagata but have one or more holes in them are not tagata but honui.

I have not mentioned the holes inside the circular shapes of such glyphs as vai and vaha kai:


vai	vaha kai

The meaning of these two glyph types do suggest 'hole', for vai is presumably connected with the birth of spring sun and vaha kai with his disappearance through the 'mouth' in the west half a year later:


Ga5-4	Ga5-5	Ga5-6	Ga5-7 (118)	Ga5-8	Ga5-9


Gb5-5	Gb5-6	Gb5-7	Gb5-8	Gb5-9	Gb5-10 (364)

364 - 118 = 246 = 2 * 123 = 6 * 41. These numbers are possibly not very important. What matters is rather 5 and 7 ('fire' and 'his mother'), together 5 + 7 = 12, respectively 5 and 10 ('fire' and its end).

Furthermore, 35 (= 5 * 7) has appeared repeatedly in our long journey. We cannot look at all such instances, but one can be mentioned:

G calendar
period no.	number of glyphs
1, 2, 3	8 + 4 + 7 = 19	35	19
4, 5, 6	3 + 2 + 3 = 8		27
7, 8, 9	4 + 2 + 2 = 8		35
10, 11, 12	2 + 3 + 2 = 7	35	42
13, 14, 15	4 + 3 + 5 = 12		54
16, 17, 18	3 + 6 + 7 = 16		70

Another glyph type not mentioned is haú where there are variants which describe full cycles:


Sa4-202	Bb12-16	Bb12-19

Sb2-33	Aa4-14	Ab1-15

I4-128	Aa5-50	Aa7-59

Ka4-13	Aa4-60	Gb4-16

Ka4-13 (with 4 * 13 = 52) certainly carries the meaning of a full cycle:

5
5	Ka4-11	Ka4-12
6
6	Ka4-13	Ka4-14	Ka4-15
7
7	Ka4-16	Ka5-1 (84)

4 * 13 = 2 * 26 suggests a season of the sun, and Ka4-14 is a 'π number', and Ka4-15 indicates by way of a fat henua in front a season of plenty, all signs of the arrival of a new sun.

In the 7th period the 5th glyph line arrives - cfr the numbers in Ga5-7 (at vai above) - and maro will sprout from henua again, and people will eat (Ka4-16) because of the 'multiplying' from the new sun. 4 * 16 = 64, the whole 'chessboard' will be filled.

The holes in Bb12-16 and Bb12-19 are formed like an egg respectively a zero:


Bb12-16	Bb12-19

The egg is an obvious sign for the season of plenty which arrives with the sun in spring. Zero on the other hand would rather suggest the empty state when there is nothing left.

The extremes meet, however, because only when there is nothing left of winter can spring sun arrive.

The signs of omega catches the idea in a 'nut-shell': Ω and ω - the cosmic egg respectively the empty egg-shell after the 'chicken' has left.

12 * 16 = 192, the number of glyphs in K. 12 * 19 = 228, a number we also have encountered several times earlier:

7

Ab4-48 Ab4-49 Ab4-50 Ab4-51 Ab4-52

Ab4-53 Ab4-54 Ab4-55 Ab4-56 Ab4-57

4-57 generates 4 * 57 = 228, and 5 together with 7 could be another sign. A 'square' (4) is completed with Ab4-57, and we notice Ab4-51, a vai without any moon crescents. There are 10 feather signs on haú.

Ab4-55--56 are numbers 299-300 (counted from Ab1-1), i.e. they could represent the middle of the sun's 300-day long journey (with 2 glyphs per day).

Ab4-57, therefore, can be regarded as 'zero' - nothing left.

Another instance:

... Counting glyphs from Bb1-1 the ordinal number of the first manu mata e toru is 177 = 3 * 59, which possibly could explain the first etoru:

176 50 699

Bb5-14 (177) Bb6-25 (228)

177 = 3 * 59 750

927

The second etoru could refer to 3 * 250. In Bb5-14 the basic sign is tagata, a fully grown 'person', and 177 = 6 * 29.5 also indicates that a midpoint has been reached. In Bb6-25 the basic sign is vae kore, an expectation of new light (also hinted at by the beak which is formed like a reversed viri) ...

228 is here the ordinal number of Bb6-25 counted from Gb1-1. The reversed viri sign says, however, that the new light has arrived - 'zero' is in the past. Possibly we should raise the ordinal number to 229 (to avoid 'nothing left') by beginning to count from the last glyph on side a:


Bb6-14	Bb6-15	Bb6-16	Bb6-17	Bb6-18	Bb6-19

Bb6-20	Bb6-21	Bb6-22 (225)	Bb6-23	Bb6-24

Bb6-25 (228)	Bb6-26	Bb6-27	Bb6-28

6 * 24 = 144 = 12 * 12. We have seen that manu kake stands inside the door, and the same should be true for moe.

Counting from Ba1-1 instead, Bb6-25 will be number 228 + 421 = 649. If 2 glyphs correspond to 1 day, then Bb6-26 will be the 2nd half of day number 325. The maitaki sign on the beak of moe says we should think of Bb6-25 and Bb6-26 as a pair.

6 * 25 = 150 could be the last glyph in the 1st half of 300 days, and Bb6-26 would then be the 1st glyph in the 2nd half. The maitaki sign says the light is in the past, not in front.

Furthermore, we must observe honui at Bb6-22 (sun, 6, combined with 'π', 22). It is number 225 (counted from Bb1-1). The hatchmarked fish clearly belongs together with the hatchmarked henua at left in Bb6-22. If hatchmark means 'black' (uri) then the season of 'greenery' is over. 225 = 15 * 15. Counted from Ba1-1 the number will be 225 + 421 = 646 = 2 * 17 * 19.