TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

On side b of Tahua - at a position exactly corresponding to that of the glyph on side a which shows what can be imagined as the spring sun fish being devoured at midsummer - an interesting variant of the mea ke sign appears:


Ab6-66	Ab6-67	Ab6-68	Ab6-69	Ab6-70

Ab6-71	Ab6-72	Ab6-73	Ab6-74	Ab6-75

The person in Ab6-66 keeps his loaded fist high and it becomes the top rhomb in the vertical triplet, a kind of glyph play which probably is like a mirror of what we can see in Aa6-66:


Ab6-66	Ab6-67

Aa6-66	Aa6-67

In Aa6-66 the vomiting person empties his stomach, whereas in Ab6-66 the measure has been refilled. We can draw the conclusion that the left part of Ab6-67 is going away, a type of glyph which is predominantly found on side b.


Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69	Aa6-70

Aa6-71	Aa6-72	Aa6-73	Aa6-74	Aa6-75	Aa6-76

						6
Aa1-78	Aa1-84	Aa4-69	Aa5-8	Aa6-82	Aa8-80	6
						30
Ab2-45	Ab3-50	Ab5-7	Ab5-37	Ab5-39	Ab5-41

Ab5-48	Ab5-50	Ab5-52	Ab5-55	Ab5-58	Ab5-67

Ab5-68	Ab5-80	Ab6-2	Ab6-38	Ab6-39	Ab6-40

Ab6-66	Ab6-67	Ab6-69	Ab6-70	Ab6-72	Ab6-73

Ab6-74	Ab6-75	Ab6-88	Ab6-90	Ab7-27	Ab7-62

Not much is said here about the curious constellation Ab6-66--67 and its relation to Aa6-66--67. The triplet of rhombs must wait until we arrive at maitaki, and the number circus has not yet been clarified.

Tahua with its long text lines can express the number of the beast (666) this way, but it is not possible with any of the other tablets.

Possibly there is a connection between the number of the beast and 216 (= 6 * 6 * 6):

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

216 is suitable for sun-is-present also because 2 * 16 = 32 (half the 'chessboard').

The whole chessboard is twice 32 = 64, but twice 216 = 432 gives 4 * 32 = 128 or two chessboards.

118 + 50 = 168 will also give two chessboards (16 * 8 = 128).

Let us document the distances between the two 'beast' glyphs:

481		657		194
	Aa6-66		Ab6-66
	482		1140
1334

481 + 194 = 675 = 3 * 3 * 3 * 5 * 5 = 3 * 15 * 15 = 9 * 75

657 = 3 * 3 * 73 = 9 * 73.

482 = 2 * 241.

1140 = 3 * 19 * 20 = 19 * 60.

658 = 2 * 7 * 47.

Not much so far indicates that the numerical distances are interrelated in some interesting way. But surely there must be more to it. Let us try to introduce also the 2nd glyphs of the pairs:

481			656			193
	Aa6-66	Aa6-67		Ab6-66	Ab6-67
	482	483		1140	1141
*1334 = 2 667**

656 = 16 * 41 = 8 * 82 = 4 * 164.

481 + 193 = 674 = 2 * 337.

483 = 3 * 7 * 23 = 21 * 23 = 3 * 161.

1141 = 7 * 163.

1334 - 658 = 676 = 2 * 2 * 13 * 13 = 26 * 26.

658 = 14 * 47.

The only possible clue is 26 * 26 = 676. Extending the idea we can count 36.5 * 36.5 = 1332.25 or close to 1334.

Aa6-68 and Ab6-65 are similar:

*480 = 8 60**					654					*192 = 8 24**
	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68		Ab6-65	Ab6-66	Ab6-67	Ab6-68
	481	482	483	484		1139	1140	1141	1142
1334

192 (half 384 and equal to the number of glyphs in K) may be relevant. 480 = 20 * 24 is also interesting.

1334 - 192 - 480 = 662 = 2 * 331.

1334 - 192 = 1142 = 2 * 571.

1334 - 480 = 854 = 2 * 7 * 61.

In spite of all this effort only one outstanding factor can be discerned, viz. that beyond 'the number of the beast' (6-66) - halfway around 1334 - comes 6-67, which should make us remember the odd numbers167 and 267:

In the K text 167 = 192 - 25:


Kb4-14	Kb4-15	Kb4-16	Kb4-17
167	*168 = 12 14**	169	170
		...	19
Kb4-18	Kb4-19	Kb5-1
171	172	173
22

In E, we have:

	40			40
Eb3-8		Eb4-11	Eb4-12		Eb5-11
1		42	43		84
	40			40
Eb5-11		Eb6-17	Eb6-18		Eb3-8
84		125	126		167 (1)

Sirius is related to 267:

			*96 = 8 12**
Gb2-9	Gb2-10	Gb2-11		Gb5-10	Gb5-11	Gb5-12
265	266	267		364	365	366

9 * 29.5 = 265.5, and 167 in E above is not really 167, the distance of the cycle is 166.

Possibly we should interpret 1334 as a more precise measure: 1334 / 8 = 166.75.

And then half the distance (6-67) will be 83.375.

84 could be an approximation of 83.375 and 168 an approximation of 166.75.

end of sun-on-island	Sirius	end of year
ca 166 = 66 + 100	ca 266 = 66 + 200	ca 366 = 66 + 300

Maybe the creator of Tahua thought the year had a duration of 366.75 days:

sun barred	sun-on-island	Sirius barred	Sirius present
ca 66	ca 100	ca 100	ca 100
ca 366