TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

In the 3rd sun-is-present period of the 1st half year, according to G, a rising fish follows a variant of mea ke:

3
3	Ga3-10	Ga3-11	Ga3-12	Ga3-13	Ga3-14	Ga3-15	Ga3-16

The location of this mea ke, immediately after haú at Ga3-14 (suggesting π) and before the rising fish, presumably indicates the end of a time of darkness, a break in time.

Of the six lines forming the triplet of wedges at the top of normal mea ke glyphs only half of them remains. A 'glyph play' apparently has put the three missing ones as 'toes' in haú.

The 'turtle' (hônu) at Ga3-12 stands at the end of the old year, and a new fire must be alighted. The 'head' of the old year has already begun to sprout (Ga3-11). The moon sign is missing on ragi in Ga3-10, and possibly it instead is located at the top of Ga3-11.

The two 'eyes' in hau tea (Ga3-10) characterize the time of solstice, and perhaps they also are alluding to the two 'eyes' of the 'nut' at bottom in Ga3-11.

The glyphs perhaps should be read in pairs:

male	female

Ga3-10	Ga3-11

Ga3-12	Ga3-13

Ga3-14	Ga3-15

In Kb4-15 we find a reverse situation (compared to Ga3-15):

26
26	Kb3-14	Kb3-15	Kb3-16

Also here the glyph is following immediately beyond a 'π-glyph' - which hardly is a coincidence.

We can read that henua (the time of sun light on the island) is in the past and that darkness (mea ke) is what follows.

8 * 19 = 152 and equal to the ordinal number of Kb3-15 (counted from Ka1-1). 19 sígnifies 'sun is finished'. Ga3-15 has ordinal number 75 (counted from Gb8-30), which possibly alludes to 3 seasons for the sun. A season can be illustrated as a square, and 3 * 25 = 75. Ga3-15 is in period number 3 of those periods which end in kiore + henua.

Kb3-15 is in period 26, which - we should remember - is the number for the last kuhane station of the current king (viz. Hanga Moria One).

1	*Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai A Te Taanga*	9	*Hua Reva*	17	*Pua Katiki*
2	*Te Pu Mahore*	10	*Akahanga*	18	*Maunga Teatea*
3	*Te Poko Uri*	11	*Hatinga Te Kohe*	19	*Mahatua*
4	*Te Manavai*	12	*Roto Iri Are*	20	*Taharoa*
5	*Te Kioe Uri*	13	*Tama*	21	*Hanga Hoonu*
6	*Te Piringa Aniva*	14	*One Tea*	22	*Rangi Meamea*
7	*Te Pei*	15	*Hanga Takaure*	23	*Peke Tau O Hiti*
8	*Te Pou*	16	*Poike*	24	*Mauga Hau Epa*
*(24/2) 30 = 360**
25	*Oromanga*	26	*Hanga Moria One*	residences of the current king at Anakena
27	*Papa O Pea*	28	*Ahu Akapu*	residences for the future and the abdicated kings
*(28/2) 30 = 420**

Structure is fundamental. 16 at Poike can be interpreted as half 32, the measure of sun growth during the first half of the year. In a way Poike is the central pillar of sun's voyage from the north towards the south, marking spring equinox.

On the other hand, time is measured by the moon travelling from the west towards the east, reaching to Hanga Takaure (15) as if it was full moon. She gives birth at full moon, she is Te Nuahine at Hanga Takaure.

At Kb4-8 (9 glyphs later) another mea ke sign arrives:

26
26	Kb3-14	Kb3-15 (152)	Kb3-16
27
27	Kb4-1	Kb4-2	Kb4-3	Kb4-4	Kb4-5
28
28	Kb4-6	Kb4-7 (160)	Kb4-8	Kb4-9

The wedges inside the oval at left are oriented in the opposite direction compared with those outside at mea ke.

The location towards the end of the season of sun-is-present-on-the-island makes it reasonable to guess that Kb4-8 indicates summer solstice. He leaves abruptly at that time.

Viri at Kb4-6 has position 3 * 53 = 159 (counted from Ka1-1), and 3 is a number which suggests the 3 'feathers' of spring, while 53 signifies one more than 52 (similar to 29 being one more than 28).

The 'gnomon' at Kb4-7 is glyph number 100 counted from Ga3-15.

	46					46
Ka3-15		Kb1-11	Kb1-12	Kb1-13	Kb1-14		Kb4-5	Kb4-6	Kb4-7
1		48	49	50	51		98	99	100
		24				24
Ka4-14	Ka4-15		Kb1-9	Kb1-10	Kb1-11			Kb2-14	Kb2-15
-	1		25	26	27			52	-

Considering our suggested time table for the 1st half of the year Kb4-7 is located at a position ca 7 days before spring ends:

sun light barred	spring	sun leaves
ca 59 days	ca 108 days	ca 25 days
ca 192 days

Viri at Kb4-6 marks another end point, viz. 4 * 6 = 24 (and 3 * 53 = 159), while the 'gnomon' has 4 * 7 = 28 and 10 * 16 = 160. Viri therefore probably refers to the sun and the 'gnomon' to the moon.

Kb1-13--14 will then also refer to the moon, they are halfway through the 100 days long distance from Ka3-15 to the 'gnomon'.

Kb1-10, on the other hand is number 26 - half 52 - and should refer to the sun. 99 (Kb4-6) - 26 (Kb1-10) = 73 = 365 / 5. But Kb1-13--14 are also sun-related, because 99 (Kb4-6) - 51 (Kb1-14) = 48 = twice 24, and 50 (Kb1-13) equals 5 * 10 (and the picture in the glyph clarifies that the 'sun-sails' have turned around (compared with Kb1-9).

Does not this 'prove' that we should count two days per glyph in K and that midsummer occurs between Kb1-9 (2 * 106 = 212) and Kb1-13 (2 * 110 = 220)? But that would imply a revised table:

sun light barred	sun present	sun leaves
ca 118 days	ca 216 days	ca 50 days
ca 384 days

We should not be lead astray by the G text and it would be strange if the K calendar covers only half the year. The fist is full and time is turning at Kb4-19:

Kb4-19

From the fist (nut) another (ké) season takes its nourishment, and the connection between them is illustrated by a sun type of path reaching a maximum halfway in between.