TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Two of the honu glyphs in the G text have big holes:

230	2		98		140
		Gb1-3 (233)		Gb3-15 (332)
*232 = 8 29**		100

The numbers indicate they are a pair, e.g. is 233 mirrored in 332 (a consequence of 100).

Another way to order them is to view them together with the three similarly formed honu without holes, and a new pattern will then emerge:

183		43		65	178
	Ga5-10 (121)		Ga6-24 (165)			Gb6-26 (409)
*228 = 12 19**				*244 = 4 61**

183		43		67		98		76
	Ga5-10		Ga6-24		Gb1-3		Gb3-15		Gb6-26
*295 = 10 29.5**					*177 = 6 29.5**

Gb1-3 (and indirectly then also Gb3-15) surely is connected with Gb6-26. 6 lunar months (177 nights) begin with Gb1-3 and end with Gb6-26. Half a year (183 days) then follows, until a special season arrives with Ga5-10.

Ga6-24 is via Ga5-10 indirectly related to Gb6-26, but also directly:

	243		63
Ga6-24 (165)		Gb6-26 (409)
*244 = 4 61**		*64 = 4 16**

244 - 64 = 180, i.e. from Ga6-24 to Gb6-26 there are 180 + 64 days, and then follows another period of 64 days (to the end of side b).

295 - 228 = 67 = 244 - 177. A year with 10 lunar months (295) is 67 days longer than 192 + 36 days. A 'square' of double-months with 61 days in each is 67 days longer than 6 lunar months (177).

In Ga5-10 and Ga6-24 the honu sign is at left, in the past. Therefore the season of this type of honu will be 177 + 183 = 360 days.

Noteworthy is the shape of henua, with a straight short end at bottom and a 'sucked in' one at the top. Maybe it means that the beginning of this henua season is in the light from the sun but not its end.

Next pages (the last of those investigating honu glyphs with holes in the G text):

From what has been said it is clear that beginning with Gb1-3 a regular solar year with 360 days stretches up to Ga5-10:

	43		67		98		76		183
Ga5-10		Ga6-24		Gb1-3		Gb3-15		Gb6-26
*4 28 = 112**				360

Probably honu in Gb1-3 and Gb6-26 stand at solstices - they have no legs, i.e. do not move. A gradual increase in height is seen during the 177 days from Gb1-3 up to and including Gb6-26. Gb1-3 has no head and evidently is located at Te Pei, beyond summer solstice. Gb6-26 should therefore be at winter solstice, at the other extreme - which must be very high.

Maybe the peculiar sign in Gb1-3 where the head should have been alludes to waves. Water ought to be involved at this point of time. John the Baptist is located at midsummer. The Small Eyes (Matariki) also bring rain. The big 'eye' in Gb1-3 (and in Gb3-15) presumably is the same type of sign as in the double small 'eyes':


Ga7-25	Ga7-26	Ga7-29

A hole (mata) inside a honu glyph probably means 'water'. Instead of light there is darkness brought by rain clouds, a 'deluge'. The year seems to begin anew from a state of total darkness. Let there be light, God said.

"... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day." (Hamlet's Mill)

By removing stars from the sky there will be holes. Through such holes will come torrents of water.

God removed stars in the Pleiades and out poured the deluge through two open holes. He did not remove all the stars, it seems, only two. Are these two holes what we see in the triplet of honu glyphs? They are drawn very alike, and they could be the same honu (and the same two holes) seen thrice.

The holes are drawn very small, and they could represent the two holes in the Pleiades, where two stars were removed.

Why did God remove the two stars? Presumably he wanted to plant them like seeds. Two new half years must be created. It was smart to take the stars from the Pleiades, because then he did not need to bother with watering the new plants, it would be done through the two holes.