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Te Kioe Uri
This is the first of
31 glyph sequences ending with kiore-henua (and growing
maro). The 8 glyphs begin with
Rei at
Ga2-27:
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Ga2-27 |
Ga2-28 |
Ga2-29 |
Ga3-1 |
Ga3-2 |
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59
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= 2 * 29 |
= 2 *
29.5 |
= 2 * 30 |
= 2 *
30.5 |
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2 * 31 |
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Moa crying out in Ga3-3 has a body shaped like a
flame, presumably telling that here is the beginning
of the calendar part for spring sun. |
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Ga3-3 |
Ga3-4 |
Ga3-5 |
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64 |
65 |
Redmarked are
glyphs which can be regarded as defining Te Kioe Uri
in 5 different 'currencies' (viri glyphs apparently use
29 and Rei marks a beginning, therefore also this
currency is included).
The Black Rat possibly has its
name from sun ('the rat') and from the dark fresh greenery
growing in spring (uri = green, not only black):
... ki oti te toga, he-uri te maúku o te kaiga ...
once winter is over, the grasses grow green ...
Rei in Ga2-27 has a sign like a new waxing moon at top left. Ga2-28
has an upside down 'fish' with a rhomb-like sign, maybe
referring to a moon double-month (59 nights). Both 29 and 29.5 are measures relating
to the lunar month.
In Ga2-29, on
the other hand, it is the sun who defines the month. 12 * 30
= 360, and the first of the double-months of spring is Te
Kioe Uri. He is drawn like niu, but with a closed
outline (full of life like a firmly closed sea shell):
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Te
Kioe Uri |
niu |
We can compare
with Aa1-13, where niu has its usual place (at the end
of the year):
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Aa1-9 |
Aa1-10 |
Aa1-11 |
Aa1-12 |
Aa1-13 |
Aa1-14 |
Aa1-15 |
Ga3-1 is manu
kake, the 'climbing bird'. He is drawn assymmetric, with
a longer beak at right. It means the height to the sky
roof is greater in the forward direction (towards high
summer) than in the backward direction (towards winter
solstice). Once again it is the spring which is referred to.
Ga3-2 possibly
describes how the season (henua) which is beginnin
is a season of 'eating' (= growing). The open mouth is
directed towards henua.
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The last two
sentences are questionable. The open mouth probably
refers to sun as such, only indirectly to eating. Sun is
necessary for growing food, and an open mouth could
suggest this fact.
Sun is high in the sky, and in a glyph with sun vertically adjoining another
sign, such as henua for instance, he must be above and looking down in
order to mark the connection with the other sign. Therefore, the constellation
sun and henua is rather primarily to be read as 'the season of spring' (shown by
the periods ending with kiore + henua glyphs). Ga3-2 is consequently an
indicator of the beginning of spring, not very different in meaning from Ga3-1.
The very special Aa6-66 can be read as sun above and a flow of water below - the
season of water is coming:
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Aa6-65 |
Aa6-66 |
Aa6-67 |
Aa6-68 |
Aa6-69 |
Aa6-70 |
But here we can definitely read the
water as arriving from the mouth of the sun (he has taken on his Rain God
garment). With henua (Ga3-2) there is no such connection, instead there
is a gap between sun in the sky and earth below. A new year begins in the dark,
when the sky is lying down on earth, when light cannot come in between. Vaha
meha in Aa6-67 shows the absence of light.
Vaha mea in Ga3-4 has a similar position (only moa has
intruded). It is a fat vaha mea, the spring sun is inside, and at the top
mea ke shows that the shadows of winter solstice are still
present.
I think these reflections
should be included in the glyph dictionary. Therefore I will add a new page:
... Ga3-2 possibly
describes how the season (henua) which is beginning
is a season of 'eating' (= growing). The
open mouth is
directed towards henua.
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Ga2-27 |
Ga2-28 |
Ga2-29 |
Ga3-1 |
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Ga3-2 |
Ga3-3 |
Ga3-4 |
Ga3-5 |
The open
mouth probably refers to sun as such, only indirectly to
eating. Sun is necessary for growing food, and an open
mouth could suggest this fact.
Sun is high
in the sky, and in a glyph with sun vertically adjoining
another sign, such as henua for instance, he should
be above and looking down in order to mark the connection
with the other sign. Therefore, the constellation sun and
henua is rather primarily to be read as 'the season of
spring' (shown by the periods ending with kiore +
henua glyphs). Ga3-2 is consequently an indicator of the
beginning of spring, not very different in meaning from
Ga3-1.
The very special
Aa6-66 can be read as sun above and a flow of water below -
the season of water is coming:
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Aa6-64 |
Aa6-65 |
Aa6-66 |
Aa6-67 |
Aa6-68 |
Aa6-69 |
Aa6-70 |
But here we can
definitely read the water as arriving from the mouth of the
sun (he has taken on his 'Rain God garment'). With henua
(Ga3-2) there is no such connection, instead there is a gap
between sun in the sky and earth below.
Time begins in
the dark, when sky is lying down on earth, when light cannot
come in between. Vaha meha in Aa6-67 shows the
absence of light.
Vaha
mea in Ga3-4 has a similar position (only moa has
intruded). It is a fat vaha mea, the spring
sun is inside, and at the top a mea ke sign shows
that the shadows of winter solstice are still present.
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The close conjunction of sky with
earth at the beginning of time is described in myths with the god children inside,
in between, struggling to get space (implying light).
In Aa6-66 we have another sign, not mentioned in the dictionary page above,
which confirms the reading suggested: The mouth of sun is formed like earth (henua).
It is not the usual wedge-mark or curve, it is the upper part of a rectangle
('square').