TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The Swedish word rev means a fishing line - the means by which fishes are lifted up from the water up into the air. Metoro said reva in the same situation in a few instances, e.g.:


Ea6-37	Eb3-17	Eb3-18
ka reva* te ika*	kua moe - kua reva* te ika*	tama - reva* ika*

Another meaning of rev is reef - once again the idea of coming up from the watery deep. The waves are lifted up on the reef.

... In Eb3-17 moe refers to the 'sleepy old bird' glyph type. Its meaning seems to be the opposite of the glyph type at left in Eb3-18 (tamaiti or tama for short). When somebody is 'finished' (euphemism for dead) somebody else will soon be ready to take his place. Death and birth are mutually necessary. The new life (re)appearing at birth is a baby, 'little child', tamaiti (iti = little) ...

Kui drowned and Fakataka gave birth to a baby on the reef. To be uplifted on the reef is to be born to this world of ours. Possibly the spirit of Kui was uplifted from the deep to the sky above, and possibly this step was necessary before the baby could thrive (cfr Ulu and Mokuola).

In the Mamari moon calendar Ohua is located as glyph number 26:


Ca7-8	Ca7-9	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12 (24)

	Ca7-13	Ca7-14 (26)	Ca7-15	Ca7-16

Ca7-17 (29)	Ca7-18	Ca7-19		Ca7-20 (32)

	Ca7-21	Ca7-22	Ca7-23	Ca7-24 (36)

If waxing moon is mapped in the same way as waning sun, the rising 'fruit' should be located 26 / 36 = 13 / 18 from the beginning of the 'season'. In the Mayan calendar we should find it 180 + 130 = 310 days (= 15½ months) from the beginning of the year, viz. in Moan, a month when night is falling and the mouth is closing, and the bat is rising:


5 Tzek	6 *Xul*	7 Yaxkin	8 Mol

9 Ch'en	10 Yax	11 Sac	12 Ceh
		200
13 Mac	14 Kankin	200	15 Moan

16 Pax	17 Kayab	18 Cumhu	19 Vayeb

1 Pop	2 Uo	3 Zip	4 Zotz

Hua Reva is located at day 295, the last of the days before the dark cloth is falling.

Furthermore, Ga1-16 comes 240 glyphs beyond Gb1-18, a glyph similar to Ha6-6 and Pa5-52 (which mark the turnaround of sun at noon):

		178			58
Gb1-18 (248)	Gb1-19		Gb7-17 (428)	Gb7-18		Ga1-16 (488)
	*180 = 2 90**			60

Twice 248 = 496 (= 16 * 31), and then comes Ga1-25:


Ga1-15	Ga1-16 (488)	Ga1-17	Ga1-18

Ga1-19	Ga1-20	Ga1-21

Ga1-22	Ga1-23	Ga1-24 (496)	Ga1-25

Ga1-25 occupies, we have seen, a crucial place in the structue of the text, as illustrated for instance in this table:

	258						208
Gb1-6		Ga1-22	Ga1-23	Ga1-24	Ga1-25	Ga1-26
	*261 = 9 29**
*472 = 16 29 + 8 (= 16 * 29.5)**

By measuring to 16 * 31 (counted from Gb8-30) a new cycle will begin with Ga1-25. The new cycle maybe is meant to cover 16 * 28 = 448 days, because 472 - 24 = 448.

In Ha6-6 (at noon) we count to 36 and in the parallel Pa5-52 we count to 260, numbers peculiarly similar to 26 at Ohua and 36 at Omotohi.

Ga1-16 comes 192 days after the sun fish has been lifted up into the air, and probably determins the end of a season:

Gb3-5 (296) Ga1-16 (488)

0 192

131 58

Gb3-5 (0) Gb7-17 (132) Gb7-18 (133) Ga1-16 (192)

132 / 2 = 66, and 192 / 2 = 96. 132 / 3 = 44, and 192 / 3 = 64. And 60 / 2 = 30 and 60 / 3 = 20. Let us take a quick look to see if the glyphs can say whether we should divide by 2 or by 3:

a1	30	b1	26	66
a2	29	b2	35
a3	24	b3	5
a3	24	b3	25	25
a4	27	b4	33	58
a5	30	b5	29	87
a6	29	b6	28	115
a7	34	b7	31	146
a8	26	b8	30	176
sum	229	sum	242

Glyph number 66 is Gb5-8 and glyph number 64 is Gb5-6:


Gb5-5	Gb5-6 (360)	Gb5-7	Gb5-8	Gb5-9	Gb5-10	Gb5-11	Gb5-12

Surely 64 is the right number rather than 66, and 3 * 64 = 192 suggests we should also count to 2 * 64 = 128:


Gb7-12	Gb7-13	Gb7-14	Gb7-15	Gb7-16	Gb7-17 (132)

Gb7-14 (with ordinal number 14) induces us to conclude Gb7-13 is the last glyph of a season. The double eyes in hau tea says we are at solstice.

	63			63		62
Gb3-5 (0)		Gb5-6 (64)	Gb5-7 (65)		Gb7-14 (129)		Ga1-16 (192)	Ga1-17
296		360	361		425		488	489
	64		64		64
	192

We cannot continue, it takes too much effort and time. But I guess we could divide 64 / 2 = 32 and say that 192 = 6 * 32.