TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

There are other possibilities, e.g. to regard a8 and b1 as outside the counting to 7 + 6 = 13:

a1	30	30	b1	26	26
a2	29	59	b2	35	61
a3	24	83	b3	30	91
a4	27	110	b4	33	124
a5	30	140	b5	29	153
a6	29	169	b6	28	181
a7	34	203	b7	31	212
a8	26	229	b8	30	242
sum	229		sum	242

Te Pei is maybe another version of mago, both are dark fishes. Te Pei is at the beginning of side b, definitely in 'autumn', and mago is also past 'noon'.

Lines b6 and b7 could then be the last 2 glyph lines of the 13. Roto Iri Are and Tama (b6 respectively b7) are the infantile stations of the sun. We should count from conception, that is bio-logic.

One Tea - at the very beginning of line b8 - is another person altogether and she is 'quickly' cut off 'in midstride' (full moon).

This structure gives a new twist to Te Varu Kaiga - where is it? The answer is that it lies beyond a7, beyond the path of the sun. Easter Island lies outside the tropical belt. Therefore it is necessary to continue beyond line a7, and when the calendar returns from the extreme south we are in line b1.

There are 203 (or rather 204) days to the end of glyph line a7. If the turnpoint is at day 183, there should be some 20 glyphs at the beginning of side a which precede the sun path:


Ga1-17	Ga1-18	Ga1-19	Ga1-20	Ga1-21	Ga1-22	Ga1-23	Ga1-24	Ga1-25

Sun has only 13 stations, but the geography on earth necessitates more stations.

And when sun is given 13 stations we are using the measure of the moon. 364 / 13 = 28. There is room for 364 luminous moon nights in a year. But moon is dark during ca 13 * (29.5 - 28) = 20 nights. Therefore a better measure than 364 is 384.

The henua calendar in G has 70 + 60 = 130 glyphs. Possibly each of 13 'sun stations' are counted as 10 glyphs and (or) as 28 days.

If 70 maps spring and 60 autumn, then we ought to see signs confirming this among the 130 glyphs:

G	period no.	number of glyphs
	-	50	50
	0	7	7
	1, 2, 3	8 + 4 + 7 = 19	35	19
	4, 5, 6	3 + 2 + 3 = 8		27
	7, 8, 9	4 + 2 + 2 = 8		35
	10, 11, 12	2 + 3 + 2 = 7	35	42
	13, 14, 15	4 + 3 + 5 = 12		54
	16, 17, 18	3 + 6 + 7 = 16		70
	19, 20, 21	5 + 8 + 5 = 18	30	18
	22, 23, 24	4 + 3 + 5 = 12	30	30
	25, 26, 27	2 + 2 + 3 = 7	30	37
	28, 29, 30	3 + 3 + 4 = 10		47
	31	6		53
	32, 33	4 + 3 = 7		60
	34	3	3

With the end of the 18th period the 70th glyph is encountered, and according to my suggestions we can expect sun to have reached the equator at this point:

18
18	Ga5-10	Ga5-11	Ga5-12	Ga5-13	Ga5-14	Ga5-15	Ga5-16

Several signs can be interpreted accordingly (first of all of course 18 as period number). But I will not pursue the line of thought here, it would take to much time and effort.

Instead we must return to the glyph dictionary, and to next page, which is the first in a series from the link 'a preliminary map for the vaha mea glyphs' (in H):

We begin by assigning ordinal numbers counted from Ha1-1:

316		57		255		0		16
	*Ha6-42 (317)		*Ha7-31 (375)		Ha12-4 (631)		Ha12-5 (632)
648
73		138		271		46		116
	Hb2-23 (722)		Hb5-16 (861)		Hb10-8 (1133)		Hb10-55 (1180)
648

To make the calculations secure also the lengths of the intervals between the vaha mea glyphs have been counted, and then it is easy to see that the sums for respective side really will become 648.

Where would we have been if we had not counted? Maybe we would have gone farther, because counting takes time and could lead us astray. Next page:

We can immediately identify a twin pair (Ha12-4--5):

	57		255				16	73
*Ha6-42 (317)		*Ha7-31 (375)		Ha12-4 (631)		Ha12-5 (632)
*59 = 2 29.5**			*256 = 4 64**			*91 = 7 13**
	138		271		46		116	316
Hb2-23 (722)		Hb5-16 (861)		Hb10-8 (1133)		Hb10-55 (1180)
*140 = 7 20**				*48 = 8 6**			432 *= 8 54**

On the assumption that vaha mea glyphs stand at the beginning of periods, we then will find a quarter (91 days) from Ha12-5 to Hb2-23. Likewise Ha6-42 will together with Ha7-31 measure out a lunar double-month (59). But Ha7-31 must then stand at the end of the period, and so must Ha12-4 if we wish to reach 4 * 64 beyond Ha7-31.

We have to abandon the idea that vaha mea glyphs always stand at the beginning of a period. Instead, the pattern which fits the numbers above is that there is one vaha mea at the beginning and one at the end of a numerical period. The visual cues also connect the vaha mea glyphs pairwise.

The only odd pair is the twin pair (Ha12-4--5) where the order is reversed - vaha mea at the end comes before vaha mea at the beginning. We will look closer on this phenomenon in just a moment.

140 we recognize as an important number from earlier, 10 fortnights. 48 added to 432 is equal to 8 * 60 = 480, 24 'twenties'. Together with the 7 'twenties' in 140 we have 620 = 31 * 20. This pattern emerges because we no longer count each side separately. 648 glyphs on side b has changed into 648 - 73 + 316 = 891, and then there are 271 glyphs between Hb5-16 and Hb10-8 which have not been counted among the multiples of 'twenties'. These 271 glyphs deserve a special discussion. By the way, 891 = 9 * 99, and 2 * 648 - 891 = 5 * 9 * 9, i.e., 1296 = 9 * 12 * 12 (because 99 + 45 = 144).

As to the visual cues we can imagine a moon crescent forming the jaw in the pair Ha2-23 and Hb5-16. More normal vaha mea jaws are in the 2nd pairs on each side (Ha12-4--5 respectively Hb10-8 and Hb10-55). We can therefore guess that also the first pair (Ha6-42 and Ha7-31) have jaws referring to the moon, or at least not to the sun. The number patterns 59 and 140 evidently refer to the moon, while sun is reflected in 8 * 60, 8 * 32 and in ¼ of 364.

We should also notice that the twin sun pair on side a are thick, as if pregnant.

If my guess is right, that side a of G has a sun path calendar with periods ending kiore - henua, then there presumably are no moon stations on side a. Side a could be the sunny side and side b the shadowy side, the side which comes behind, like a wife.

Such a distinction would probably have been used also on other tablets, the first side for the sun and the second for the moon. Spring (waxing) sun would be on side a and waxing moon on side b.

But the suggested sun path calendar on side a of G disrupts the idea of side a as the side reserved for waxing sun, because it has waning sun too on side a. If so, it exemplifies the pitfalls we must look out for. The texts are complicated and contain calendars within calendars, and signs within signs.

The text of K gives us another example, because side b could be the path of waning sun.

The question whether the text of K refers to only half a year (spring) or to a whole year, is thereby given a Salomonic solution - it refers both to waxing sun (only) in giving each glyph the value of one day and to the whole year (because side b describes that part of the solar calendar which refers to autumn).