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TRANSLATIONS
If the 16 kuhane stations in G should refer to 16 different parts of the solar year, then each kuhane station cannot have 29.5 days. Though 22 days is possible: 16 * 22 = 352. And, we remember, in Tahua there is room for 22 kuhane stations à 29.5 days: 22 * 29.5 * 2 = 1298. With 22 stations distributed over the solar year, each station would get 16 days. 22 * 16 = 352. With 28 stations a solar year would limit the length of each station to 13 days. 28 * 13 = 364. The sequence of kuhane stations allows many possibilities, not only different lengths in days for each station but also calendars with different numbers of stations. Our task is primarily not do unlock the secrets of this kind but to read the glyphs. We can, however, use the kuhane stations when reading the glyphs because we can identfy them in the glyphs. Numbers give stablitiy to this process, and when the glyphs are being interpreted the numbers can be used to either support or deny the suggested readings. One of the firm results of counting is that each kuhane station in Tahua takes twice as many glyphs as in G. And now we have reached One Tea. At poporo in the glyph dictionary there was no discussion around the One Tea glyphs in G. Neither was there any at hau tea, though we would have expected a hau tea glyph at One Tea. Instead another sign for 'white' was used in G:
The 'black' viri wings in Te Puoko Uri (Ga5-8) are inverted into 'white' viri wings at One Tea (Gb8-1). It may be of value to refer here to what was written earlier regarding this and other matters relating to One Tea:
Moving to Tahua we count 2 * 443 = 886. 886 - 41 = 845. 845 - 670 = 175. The number of glyphs in b1 and b2 are 82 respectively 85. 175 - 82 - 85 = 8, i.e. Ab3-8 is the last of the 4 glyphs we should look at. Maybe by intention the creator of Tahua defined the last glyph of One Tea to arrive 845 glyphs beyond Ab8-84, because 845 = 5 * 169, where 169 is both the number beyond 168 (= 6 * 28 = 2 * 84) and equal to 13 * 13. 8 * 84 (as in Ab8-84) = 4 * 168 = 24 * 28 = 672. Furthermore, 3 * 8 (as in Ab3-8) = 24 = 168 / 7. One Tea ought to be one of the main points to define in the calendar, because moon 'dies' here. In G it is the last station on side b.
Manu kake in Ab3-8 is the last glyph of One Tea, and seems to express something similar to Te Pei:
Top center in Ab3-8 has a sign which may be the opposite of the sign of birth often seen in hanau (birth) glyphs, e.g. in Ab4-55:
We can update our table with One Tea:
A close look at Ab3-6 reveals how the maro string of feathers is divided in tow parts, definitely a sign of a break (hatiga, tohi). Having noticed this, we can observe in Ab3-5 how the maro string is preparing itself for the division, there is a dislocation where the cut will come. The first column should in principle have no numbers, because we have arrived at the conclusion that 29.5 may be a false lead. The number of days for each station should be constantly the same all through the kuhane stations, but what the number is may differ between the texts and it is far from certain that 29.5 is relevant. For practical reasons, though, I will let the numbers remain as they are, because they give a needed stability to our work. |
