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TRANSLATIONS

These 7 glyphs from K are variants of toga:


Ka2-12	Ka2-14	Ka2-16	Ka2-18	Ka2-20	Ka3-4	Ka3-12

But only Ka2-18 has the typical toa sign (Y), and we can compare it with Bb8-42:


Ka2-18	Bb8-42

The beginning of the K text is the origin of my colour chart (cfr at gagana). The structure of the week (with the planets as I have coloured them) can be extended to a higher level, and the lever to accomplish it are the toga glyph in the table above.

Therefore this is the place where it should be done, where we ought to use our precious time for an excursion.

The toga glyph type basically appears to be like a rising fish with an arm at right. The toa sign is not necessary.

The pages of the excursion:

Let us start at the beginning of side a of Tahua. This 7-glyph sequence is famous because of the Russion students who once discovered the parallels between the H, P, and Q texts through them, the 4-fold vae kore repetition draws attention:


Aa1-2	Aa1-3	Aa1-4	Aa1-5	Aa1-6	Aa1-7	Aa1-8

Ha5-26	Ha5-27	Ha5-28	Ha5-29	Ha5-30	Ha5-31	Ha5-32

Pa5-8	Pa5-9	Pa5-10	Pa5-11	Pa5-12	Pa5-13	Pa5-14

Qa5-16	Qa5-17	Qa5-18	Qa5-19	Qa5-20	Qa5-21	Qa5-22

I have used my colour chart, but - as we can see - there is no consensus as regards the colours for the vae kore glyphs among the 4 texts. Only A and Q are alike.

Now to the toga variants in K. They belong in a structure which also the parallel G text has:


Ka2-11	Ka2-12	Ka2-17	Ka2-18

Ka2-13	Ka2-14	Ka2-19	Ka2-20

Ka2-15	Ka2-16	Ka2-21	Ka2-22

Ga2-1	Ga2-2	Ga2-7	Ga2-8

Ga2-3	Ga2-4	Ga2-9	Ga2-10

Ga2-5	Ga2-6	Ga2-11	Ga2-12

To arrive at some kind of order, beyond the obvious fact that there are 6 pairs of glyphs, I will show how my colour chart can be useful.

My colour chart says that the beginning should be with a green number 3 for Venus (Friday):


Ka2-3	Ka2-4	Ka2-5	Ka2-6	Ka2-7	Ka2-8	Ka2-9

Ka2-10	Ka2-11	Ka2-12	Ka2-13	Ka2-14	Ka2-15	Ka2-16

Ka2-17	Ka2-18	Ka2-19	Ka2-20	Ka2-21	Ka2-22

Mercury and Jupiter are prior, but - we should remember - at Ka1-1--2 they have been drawn intentionally 'invisible':


Ka1-1	Ka1-2	Ka1-3	Ka1-4	Ka1-5	Ka1-6

This means that Ka1-3 is the first glyph to count. We can compare with how it is practical to begin counting the nights of the month from the time the new moon becomes visible.

The 24 glyphs in line Ka1 should be reduced with those 2 at the beginning, and Venus will be both the beginning and the end of the 22-glyph long cycle:


Ka2-1	Ka2-2	Ka2-3 (1)	Ka2-4


*Ka1-21	*Ka1-22	*Ka1-23	*Ka1-24 (22)

Of course this can be due to pure chance, without any intention by the creator of the text. However, number 22 was in the mind of the creator, that we have discovered earlier (cfr the excursion at marama):

		42		65		22
Ka3-14 (60)	Ka3-15		Kb1-7		Kb4-17 (170)
	*2 22 = 44**			*3 22 = 66**

The physical limits of the K tablet made it impossible to have many more glyphs than 24 in a line:

a1	*24	b1	*22
a2	22	b2	*18
a3	21	b3	16
a4	16	b4	19
a5	14	b5	*20
sum	*97	sum	*95

But maybe the optimal number of glyphs in a line should be 36. If I extend my chart to 36 we can see that 22 and 36 will be in the same column, the column of Mercury (or of Venus if we let the numbers begin with 1 instead of 3):

36 = 5 * 7 + 1. My colour chart is based on 7, and therefore there must be twice 36 - if we wish to avoid an odd number as a remainder. The Mamari moon calendar has twice 36 glyphs.

If we begin with Mercury as number 1, then he will also be at number 36. The beginning becomes the end also if we combine 7 with 36.

But then the next number 1 (beyond 36) must be Jupiter. It seems that the days of the week will each begin a month, for instance:

Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
January	February	March	April	May	June	July
August	September	Oktober	November	December

If we let the year begin with winter solstice in December, then Jupiter will be the 7th month (because time does not count until we have measured 1 month, until - ideally - Venus has appeared).

36 = 20 + 16, and 12 * 36 = 432 = the number of glyphs in H divided by 3.

Venus will 'rule' both January and August. But in order to let her rule also the following January it is necessary to imagine Mercury and Jupiter being in the dark puo state:


Ka1-1	Ka1-2	Ka1-3	Ka1-4	Ka1-5	Ka1-6

My idea presented above is based on the text of K, but it agrees quite well with how the ancient Chaldeans reasoned:

...the Chaldean astrologers introduced the 7-day week which has come down into the present. The number was convenient because the seers recognized seven planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each of which governed one hour of the day.

If, for illustration, Saturn ruled the first hour of a certain day followed by each of the 'planets' in turn, he also ruled the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second hours. Jupiter was lord of the second, ninth, sixteenth, and twenty-third hours; Mars presided over the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-fourth hours, and the Sun took charge of the first hour of the succeeding day ...

Back to the K text:


Ka2-3	Ka2-4	Ka2-5	Ka2-6	Ka2-7	Ka2-8	Ka2-9

Ka2-10	Ka2-11	Ka2-12	Ka2-13	Ka2-14	Ka2-15	Ka2-16

Ka2-17	Ka2-18	Ka2-19	Ka2-20	Ka2-21	Ka2-22 (20)

This cycle measures 22, but only 20 are 'in the light'. The cycle of the moon counts only to 20, and above the structure is 20 = 8 + 12, we can see, presumably 8 for the moon and 12 for the sun. Though these 12 glyphs represent 6 pairs:


Ka2-11	Ka2-12	Ka2-13	Ka2-14	Ka2-15	Ka2-16

Ka2-17	Ka2-18	Ka2-19	Ka2-20	Ka2-21	Ka2-22 (20)
300	320	340	360	380	400

If we count 20 days per glyph, Mercury at Ka2-22 will have the last day of a 20 * 20 = 400 day long year. Tagata at Ka2-17 will mark where the light cycle of Sun is ending, at the end of the 3rd quarter. Which means toga in the following glyph will be in the dark, a day of Saturn. Another type of year, with 360 days, is suggested by 2 * 18.

Yet, only with Moon at Ka2-20 does day 360 appear according to the 400-day system. The 'arm' at right in this glyph is the same sign as we saw in Aa1-20:

0			1
0	Aa1-17	Aa1-18	1	Aa1-19	Aa1-20
2			3
2	Aa1-21	Aa1-22	3	Aa1-23	Aa1-24

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We will finish this excursion with a table for comparisons:


Qa5-16	Qa5-17	Qa5-18	Qa5-19	Qa5-20	Qa5-21	Qa5-22

Aa1-2	Aa1-3	Aa1-4	Aa1-5	Aa1-6	Aa1-7	Aa1-8

Ka2-16	Ka2-17	Ka2-18	Ka2-19	Ka2-20	Ka2-21	Ka2-22

In A, I have suggested, we can here see the months of spring. Presumably the quartet beginning with Sun normally was presented with ordinal numbers 19--22, because midsummer should be connected with 22. But the creator of A wished to have the months in overview at the beginning of side a.

The quartet in K, we have found, could represent the end of the year, with Mercury hiding the Sun behind his back. Only the rays are visible, presumably 3 for spring and 4 for atumn. This technique we discovered at maro:

summer solstice	winter solstice

Ga5-15	*Ca14-23

In Q the quartet apparently instead is located at midsummer, with Mercury hiding 'eyes' behind his back, this time though he is seen in profile. And the 'eyes' should represent the Moon.

Although Venus is number 1 we cannot change my colour chart, she must remain as number 3 there, because it is glyphs which are counted, not the days (or other units of measurement).

Number 22 at midsummer should be understood as 24 (or multiples thereof) glyphs because the first 2 are not counted.

Ka2-20 (Moon) should be counted as number 18 only, with 2 dark glyphs at the beginning there will be 20.

The relationships between planets and numbers should be documented:

If Venus stands at the beginning of the first part of a year, then Saturn will stand at the beginning of the 2nd part of the year - if there are 8 months in the first part. With 8 months also in the second part, Sun will arrive at the beginning of next season. Add 8 months again and Moon will appear and so on:

Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
8	16	24	32	40	48	50

I guess Jupiter will fail, and that there will be only 50 months. 50 * 29.5 = 1475 = 5 * 295.