TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

On side b the first 6 hipu glyphs apparently tell about the events from the beginning of Hua Reva until the last day of the solar year (at Hanga Te Pau):


Gb2-27	Gb3-30	Gb4-17	Gb4-30	Gb5-3	Gb5-12 (366)

Sun has 10 months with 30 days in each, according to the solar year scenario, and these 300 days are located between Ga3-7 and Gb5-12:

	135		162
Ga3-7 (67)		Ga7-33 (203)		Gb5-12 (366)
*136 = 100 + 6 6**		*164 = 100 + 8 8**
*300 = 10 30**

The square of sun (6) 'inhabits' the first part of the solar year, the square of moon (8) the second part.

Now this seems to be an important discovery. First it affirms my (questionable) classification of Ga7-33 as belonging to hipu - it does so by allusion. Then it supports my earlier ideas about 300 days as one way to count the solar year. Sun has 3, whether it be fingers, hundreds or tens (as in 30 days in a month).

472 - 300 = 172 = 4 * 43. Or we could think that 2 hundreds belong to the sun and 2 hundreds to the moon, leaving 72 = 360 / 5 as an extracalendrical time, not belonging to either of them. And other possibilities, of course.

There are only these two tagata pau glyphs in the text of G. There is none in K and none in C. In A there are three (redmarked below), but also other glyphs which may be relevant:


Aa2-7	Aa3-58	Aa4-26	Aa6-11

Aa6-12	Aa6-43	Aa6-83	Aa8-19

Ab2-9	Ab2-43	Ab2-60	Ab3-30

Ab3-41	Ab4-72

To these 14 glyphs can be added for comparison the 17 under hipu in the glyph catalogue:


Aa2-7	Aa3-58	Aa4-25	Aa4-26	Aa4-63	Aa4-78

Aa5-28	Aa6-10	Aa6-14	Aa6-43	Ab2-9	Ab5-1

Ab6-31	Ab6-51	Ab6-53	Ab7-16	Ab8-56

I have missed Aa6-12 and will add it now.

Let us count and primarily use the three redmarked glyphs:

	135			194		30
Aa2-7		Aa3-57	Aa3-58		Aa6-12		Aa6-43
97		232	233		428		459
	136		*195 = 13 15**		32
364

6 * 12 = 72 = 360 / 5 while 6 * 43 = 258 may be its opposite in some way.

3 * 58 = 6 * 29, and we have 6 times 12, 29, respectively 43.

I have counted ordinal numbers (233 etc) from Aa1-1. Using 459 we can count 4 * 59 = 236 = 8 * 29.5 and similarly 428 can induce us to count 4 * 28 = 112 = 8 * 14.

233 will then be 2 * 33 = 66 = 132.

I have added Aa2-7 (and Aa3-57) in order to use the resemblance to Ga3-7, which measures out 136. From 97 to 233 is equal to from 67 to 203.

364 emerges as 332 + 32, where 332 can be read as 3 times 32, and we could count 4 * 32 = 128 = twice 64. There are 2 cycles in the year, each like a perfect square measuring 8 by 8.

364 is also equal to 136 (equal to the distance from Ga3-7 to Ga7-33) + 228 (which can be interpreted as π - measured as 22/7 - combined with 8).

But 228 is also 12 * 19, or maybe rather twice 6 * 19 - there are two pau (hipu) signs in Aa6-43. The double signs implies the 2nd cycle is reaching to its end. 459 / 2 = 229.5 and it suggests that Te Pei is located at the end of the 2nd cycle. Which presumably means that Te Pou is the beginning of the 1st cycle. The year would then begin not at winter solstice but at summer solstice.

8 * 29.5 = 236 = 4 * 59.