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TRANSLATIONS
Here The Golden Bough necessarily needs to be quoted: "... Isis put the coffer by and went to see her son Horus at the city of Buto, and Typhon found the coffer as he was hunting a boar one night by the light of the full moon. And he knew the body, and rent it into fourteen pieces, and scattered them abroad. But Isis sailed up and down the marshes in a shallop made of papyrus, looking for the pieces; and that is why when people sail in shallops made of papyrus, the crocodile do not hurt them, for they fear or respect the goddess. And that is the reason, too, why there are many graves of Osiris in Egypt, for she buried each limb as she found it. But others will have it that she buried an image of him in every city, pretending it was his body, in order that Osiris might be worshipped in many places, and that if Typhon searched for the real grave he might not be able to find it. However, the genital member of Osiris had been eaten by the fishes, so Isis made an image of it instead, and the image is used by the Egyptians at their festivals to this day. 'Isis', writes the historian Diodorus Siculus [the earlier text is from Plutarch], 'recovered all the parts of the body except the genitals; and because she wished that her husband's grave should be unknown and honoured by all who dwell in the land of Egypt, she resorted to the following device. She moulded human images out of wax and spices, corresponding to the stature of Osiris, round each one of the parts of his body. Then she called in the priests according to their families and took an oath of them all that they would reveal to no man [cfr Odysseus as Noman] the trust she was to repose on them. So to each of them privately she said that to them alone she entrusted the burial of the body, and reminding them of the benefits they had received she exhorted them to bury the body in their own land to honour Osiris as a God. She also besought them to dedicate one of the animals of their country, whichever they chose, and to honour it in life as they had formerly honoured Osiris, and when it died to grant it obsequies like his ..." The last part, I suggest, identifies the animal growth with the vegetable growth (of corn etc). In spring both animals and vegetation proliferate. The periods of kiore - henua - maro in G, I guess, represent the different 'fields' in which the parts of Osiris are buried. Where is Te Varu Kainga? Where is Osiris buried? Noman knows. The fishes took the important part. Therefore the Pe'i fish has his place in the calendar. Without the important part there is no more 'multiplication'. Earth is waning. 14 pieces there were, minus 1 (swallowed by the fish). It leaves 13, and 364 / 13 = 28. 14 * 28 = 392 = 192 + 200. 392 / 8 = 49 = 7 * 7. We should look in the text of G for number 392:
4 tagata are in the center of each triplet. Gb6-9 has 3 featers at the top, Gb6-6 none. Gb6-12 and Gb6-15 seem to have lots of short ones. Maybe sun has the first row and moon the second? But there are 6 + 6 feathers around the head in Gb6-14 (where 6 * 14 = 84), and there are 5 + 5 = 10 at Gb6-16 (where 6 * 16 = 96). Honu has his location in the 2nd of the 'quarters', possibly in spring (3 feathers, as in the number of phases of the day in Hawaii). We have - tentatively - located honu to the 2nd quarter, the best part of spring. In G these 7 + 5 glyphs seem to say that they have to do with fire and earth:
Ga5-10 is the first of them, and 5 * 10 = 50. Ga6-24 marks a sort of final, and 6 * 24 = 144 = 12 * 12. All the numbers in between are meaningful, too. 5 * 12 = 60 (the solar double-month, the solar 'flame'). 5 * 14 = 70 (the number of glyphs in the first half of the kiore - henua calendar). 5 * 22 = 110 (eleven is 'one over') and 5-22 marks a full cycle for the sun. 5 * 25 = 5 * 5 * 5 (not only a square but a cube). 5 * 28 = 140 (a well known number in our rongorongo experiences). The 18th period is home for the 3 first honu glyhs, the 20th next triplet. And in between comes a dark period.
The triplet in the 20th period seem to be more well-fed. But I have commented (at maitaki in the dictionary):
The last one of the 7 in the first row is located among glyphs showing the end:
It is of another kind, together with the 1st and 4 of the 5 in the second row:
There are 6 (red-marked) honu glyphs with what could be 2 separate entities in the background, and 6 (blue-marked) without such signs. I guess the background (in the red-marked glyphs) partly is a sign of vai and partly of viri which has fallen on its face. The triplet of double-holed honu could be the remnants of the 6 red-marked, their 'mummies' (like Osiris). Each set of double holes would then represent a solar double-month (a 'flame'). The triplet of double-holed 'mummies' would also represent the 2nd set of solar double-month in the year. Ga7-25 comes beyond the last kiore - henua period:
Presumably we should take away 50 (of those 57) from the ordinal numbers, because then 190 will be 140 = 7 * 20. It follows that Ga7-25 will be not 195 but 145 = 5 * 29. And 7 * 25 = 175 > 150. 7 * 26 = 182 or half a 364-day long year. 7 * 29 = 203, not very exciting (although 2 + 3 = 5 complements 7). Maybe we should compare with 5 * 29 at Ga7-25. Clearly Gb1-3 has a special function. It comes as a great single 'mummy' after the triplet of double-hole 'mummies. Maybe it represents the rest of the year (beyond 354, 359, 360, 364, 365, or 366), the important time of new year creation. There is one honu remaining, presumably the new year one, a red-marked it is:
It surely is the new year sun baby. 275 = 11 * 25. We recognize in Gb2-22 the same type of sign as in Gb5-10:
And we can see the top flame in Gb2-23 as a sign of his canoe. Haú in Gb2-25 is the same as that in Gb2-17, but it has developed a 'foot' with toes. 2 * 25 = 50. But I have not shown all the honu glyphs in G. Time for that now:
I was not interested in more than those from Ga5-10 to Gb2-19. There are 4 more (redmarked above). |
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