TRANSLATIONS
With Akahanga the sun (or sun king) has been dead and buried. In G there are still 4 of the 16 kuhane stations left in the text. In A there is room for 22 stations, but we do not know how many stations are described. The station beyond Akahanga is Hatinga Te Kohe and it comes very close to the end of side a in Tahua:
The rule of old sun ends, it seems, with Hatinga Te Kohe, the 12th of the 16 kuhane stations listed in G and the last one on side a of Tahua. Let us continue with the first station on side b of Tahua, which should be Roto Iri Are. First, though, we will update our table with Akahanga:
Roto Iri Are was not commented upon at poporo in the glyph dictionary, being one of those stations which lie between the multiples of 59. But we have later discovered the connection between Roto Iri Are and Te Piringa Aniva:
They are both located at 'Saturday', the dark day when a new fire must be ignited. 'Friday' is a dangerous day (and the Maya were very afraid of Venus), and the parallel with Hatinga Te Kohe makes one wonder what happens with the king, 'the dark rat', at Te Kioe Uri. In G the creator seems to have avoided the problem by letting the station of the youths (Nga Kope Ririva) - 'Sunday' - come before 'Saturday' (Te Piringa Aniva):
A safe landing after a leap is assured at Gb6-1, where 384 lies beyond the frightening 13 * 29.5 = 383.5.
In Tahua we will find Roto Iri Are as 4 glyphs, beginning with 383 * 2 - 1 = 765 and ending with 768. 768 - 41 = 727. 727 - 670 = 57. When a long time ago I tried to document the text of A I found this to be a difficult place, the glyph order was broken in several places. We can now understand why - there cannot be order at Te Piringa Aniva or at Roto Iri Are. It is turbulent dark time when 'gods are born'. Maybe the undulating wing variant of manu rere exhibits a turbulent time? There are 8 such in Tahua and half of them are close to Roto Iri Are:
We should notice at Ab1-54 the same 'person' as at Hua Reva, another difficult time:
765 - 590 = 175 = 7 * 25 is the distance from one to the other, and the details are not the same, i.e. much information is embedded in the signs. From Hua Reva to Roto Iri Are measures 3 kuhane stations (a lunar quarter). 3 * 29.5 * 2 = 177 glyphs. Aa7-49 is at the end of Hua Reva and Ab1-54 at the beginning of Roto Iri Are. |