TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

There now remain only the last 5 glyphs on our hipu list:


Ga3-7	Ga7-33

Gb2-27	Gb3-30	Gb4-17	Gb4-30	Gb5-3	Gb5-12

Gb6-18	Gb7-26	Gb8-3	Gb8-6	Gb8-7

But Gb8-3 will not be discussed here, it will be saved until hua. Suffice it to mention that it comes a quarter after Hatinga Te Kohe (445 - 354 = 91).

Gb8-6--7 obviously belong together. They can be explained by referring to 112 (= 4 * 28 = 16 * 7):


Gb8-6 (448)	Gb8-7	Gb8-8	Gb8-9	Gb8-10

Gb8-11	Gb8-12	Gb8-13	Gb8-14	Gb8-15

Gb8-16	Gb8-17	Gb8-18 (460)	Gb8-19	Gb8-20

Gb8-21	Gb8-22	Gb8-23	Gb8-24	Gb8-25

Gb8-26	Gb8-27	Gb8-28	Gb8-29	Gb8-30 (472)

448 = 16 * 28 = 4 * 112, i.e. by using the measure 28 instead of 29.5 there will be 24 glyphs covering the final season. 472 = 16 * 29.5 = 8 * 59 = 4 * 118.

It is a dark time, the sky (ragi) has no sign of the moon, the light from the sun cannot reach her, we can see at right in Gb8-7. At One Tea the last light (life) of the waning moon went away, the 'queen' died.

The two final glyphs (labelled puo by me) stand there like mile-stones:

				21
Gb8-5	Gb8-6 (448)	Gb8-7	Gb8-8	21	Gb8-30 (472)
Gb8-5	*24 = 4 6**

8 * 8 = 64 and 8 * 30 = 240.

Not as mill-stones. The similarity in sound conveys a similarity in meaning. The mill grinds into small pieces, and if you try to count them they will be 'millions'. The beach of One Tea must contain millions of sand particles. The ocean 'mill' (the waves) produced them.

Gb6-18 has a sign at right which looks like an upside down hipu:


Gb6-17 (400)	Gb6-18	Gb6-19

It should therefore mean the opposite of hipu - viz. a striving upwards (as if there were flames inside a balloon). The fists held high agree in meaning.

Possibly the 3 fists each represents one quarter of sun, while the great 'fist' (upside down hipu) comes as the 4th (and most important of the quarters). The location is Tama - a new year is waiting to be born:


Gb6-17 (1)	Gb6-18	Gb6-19	Gb6-20

Gb6-21	Gb6-22	Gb6-23	Gb6-24

Gb6-25	Gb6-26	Gb6-27	Gb6-28

Gb7-1	*Gb7-2 (14 29.5)**	Gb7-3 (414)	Gb7-4 (16)

Gb7-26 is located at 437, beyond 14 * 31 = 434 but not as far away as One Tea (at 15 * 29.5 = 442.5):


Gb7-5	Gb7-6	Gb7-7

Gb7-8	Gb7-9 (420)	Gb7-10	Gb7-11

Gb7-12	Gb7-13	Gb7-14	Gb7-15	Gb7-16

Gb7-17	Gb7-18	Gb7-19 (430)	Gb7-20	Gb7-21

Gb7-22	Gb7-23	Gb7-24	Gb7-25	Gb7-26

Gb7-27	Gb7-28	Gb7-29	Gb7-30

A new sun is released at 10 * 42 = 420, and 10 glyphs later we can see a rising fish identical with the one in Gb7-26. Presumably it is the same fish which was released earlier:

		8		6
Gb7-9 (420)	Gb7-10	8	Gb7-19	6	Gb7-26 (437)
18

A gradual development is evident. In Gb7-26 it looks as if the released fish has become pregnant with a sun head, connected by a navel string to a sign more looking like hua ('fruit') than hipu.

Counting from tamaiti in Gb7-3 there are 24 glyphs, and the little 'knob' at bottom identifies the cycle:

	23
Gb7-3 (414)		Gb7-26
24

7 * 26 = 182 is the final proof we need to conclude that a new half year is about to begin.

The hipu in Gb7-26 has a child inside.

I think the rongorongo boards were read while sitting with your back towards the north, so the sun could light on the surface:


Gb6-17	Gb6-18	Gb6-19	Gb6-20

The future lies at right in the glyphs, likewise at right according to the flow of the glyphs. From left to right moves also the sun, warming the back of the reader. North of the equator the Maya Indians too had their backs in the sun, which explains why their glyphs are looking towards left, the path of the sun goes towards the west.

The year is beginning at the middle, at 'noon'. Gb6-17 is the first of the half-years at Te Pei, evidently a time of regeneration, a place far down in the sea in the south. Gb6-18 shows how the contents of the sun fist is coming down and after reaching a low point is rising again like a hot spirit inside a balloon.

Gb6-19 has the head en face to show the winter solstice. The forward foot illustrates 3 as in 'a.m.' sun. Gb6-20 illustrates the midnight tree with hanging balls like in a Christmans tree.

In the text of G the typical hipu glyph appears in the season when sun is 'liquidated' (Hua Reva etc). Hipu glyphs do not belong on side a (the first part of the year when sun is waxing).

In Gb5-12 (Hanga Te Pau) and in other tagata glyphs with a swollen foot (va'e pau) this sign is a hipu sign:

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

In Ga7-33 the turnover at high summer has bent down the sun 'fist' into an allusion to the hipu sign, but here it is at the top end. The season of 'liquidation' lies in front.

Water is heavy and moves downwards, we can imagine hipu glyphs to be filled with water. Calabashes function as drinking vessels. An upside down hipu sign means the opposite - a container like a balloon, striving upwards due to flames inside:


Gb6-17 (400)	Gb6-18	Gb6-19

Excursion:

Counting distances between tagata pau glyphs in A.

At Hanga Te Pau winter solstice has not arrived, the head is turned to the right.

If we combine hipu with its inverse, the hot-air balloon, we have water and fire together inside a container, maybe that is what the puo glyphs illustrate.