TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

We will leave the remaining four mago glyphs in G until later investigations. Instead we will proceed by comparing with mago and vaha mea glyphs in other texts, for instance in H.

The 8 vaha mea glyphs in H are ordered pairwise, 4 on each side of the tablet:


*Ha6-42	*Ha7-31	Ha12-4	Ha12-5

Hb2-23	Hb5-16	Hb10-8	Hb10-55

In contrast the 15 mago glyphs are more disorderly distributed:


Ha1-26	Ha2-32	Ha2-37	Ha4-40

Hb2-40	Hb2-42	Hb3-25	Hb4-2

Hb4-24	Hb5-2	Hb5-9	Hb6-3

Hb6-51	Hb9-63	Hb10-41

They are also more complicated and therefore it might be wise to begin and make a preliminary map for the vaha mea glyphs.

Hua poporo could possibly be of value when trying to draw an overview map of mago in the text of H:


Ha9-8	Ha11-46

Hb1-32	Hb1-48	Hb1-51	Hb2-4

Hb2-8	Hb2-13	Hb2-34	Hb4-28

Hb8-134	Hb9-54	Hb10-34	Hb11-24	Hb12-32

A concentration of hua poporo (redmarked above) characterizes the beginning of side b. These 8 hua poporo are located in a complex pattern where also 8 mago glyphs are involved (redmarked below):


Ha1-26	Ha2-32	Ha2-37	Ha4-40

Hb2-40	Hb2-42	Hb3-25	Hb4-2

Hb4-24	Hb5-2	Hb5-9	Hb6-3

Hb6-51	Hb9-63	Hb10-41

In G, we remember, many hua poporo signs are in line a8, and 8 may be a sign too. The 'dark fruits' could mean the fruits of autumn. If so, then spring should first end and in Ga7-15 the main character seems to be handing over to hua poporo:


Ga7-11	Ga7-12	Ga7-13 (183)	Ga7-14

Ga7-15	Ga7-16	Ga7-17	Ga7-18	Ga7-19	Ga7-20

In the Mayan calendar a pattern with 3 + 2 + 1 = 6 'fruits' denote, they say, rainclouds (9-12 below):


1 Pop	2 Uo	3 Zip	4 Zotz

5 Tzek	6 *Xul*	7 Yaxkin	8 Mol

9 Ch'en	10 Yax	11 Sac	12 Ceh
		200
13 Mac	14 Kankin	200	15 Moan

16 Pax	17 Kayab	18 Cumhu	19 Vayeb

9 * 20 = 180 days means the beginning of the 'rain fruit' time.

In the text of G the year ends with day 366 at Gb5-12. Therefore the midstation must come earlier than at the beginning of side b.

The parallel H/P/Q texts are of different lenghts. If we for instance (and rather arbitrarily) regard Ha12-1 as the beginning of autumn, then the corresponding parallel glyphs will be:

Ha12-1

Pb1-21

Qb2-43

A longer text has more 'extra' glyphs at then end, pushing - so to say - the beginning of autumn to an earlier relative position in the glyph lines. In this respect G is a long text. (Although nothing says that G is beginning and moving in parallel with H/P/Q.)