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TRANSLATIONS
The idea that side a has 20 glyphs (including Gb8-30) at the beginning, which do not participate in the path of the sun, is separate from the idea of the henua calendar on side a being a map of the solar path.
Moe at Ga1-20 is the first moe glyph in G and we now can appreciate its possible meaning - sun is beginning his journey here. The parallel in E is eloquent:
6 * 26 = 12 * 13, and in Eb6-29 tagata is at left and a canoe (tao) for the sun child is in front. Eb6-30 has a vertical straight line to indicate the limit from which the journey presumably is beginning, and at top right we can see that sun has been released. A waterfilled hole down below (Eb6-27) is miraculously changed into a firefilled fist high up (Eb6-28). At the other end of the G text One Tea is abruptly cut off:
15 * 29.5 = 442.5 and beyond these 5 glyphs of One Tea there are only 472 - 447 = 25 glyphs remaining on side b (if we count Gb8-30 twice). 25 + 20 = 45 glyphs are beyond One Tea and before the beginning of the sun journey, 'outside'. It means that 472 - 45 = 427 = 7 * 61 glyphs are 'inside'. If we reduce the ordinal number for mago at Ga7-16 with 20, it will become 186 - 20 = 166 = 100 less than 266 and 200 less than 366 (although these two numbers - referring to Te Pou respectively to Ga5-12 - are counted without any 20-day reduction):
Maybe Ga7-16 belongs to the order of the sun journey. 7 * 16 (the reverse of 7 * 61) = 112 = 4 * 28, and mago probably marks the end of spring sun (it is dark like a shadow). If the path of the sun is beginning with moe at Ga1-20, then the last glyph in line a6 will be 170 - 20 = 150, quite in order if the full path is 300 days. The last glyph in line a7 will be 204 - 20 = 184 = half 368 (whatever that number stands for).
And the last glyph in line a8 will be 230 - 20 = 210 (= 7 * 30). Side a is characterized by 7. The henua calendar is beginning with Rei at Ga2-27, which has ordinal number 58 (= 2 * 29.5) as counted from Gb8-30. If we instead count from moe at Ga1-20 its number will be 38 (= 2 * 19), not a very interesting number, but if it means anything it should be that the double 19 indicating the 'death of sun' is fading away:
The henua calendar seems to be rather unconnected to moe at Ga1-20. But mago at 166 (as counted from moe) will be 166 - 38 = 128 = twice 8 * 8 away from Ga2-27. Is there any signs of a halfway station which could confirm that 128 is no coincidence? Yes, there are:
We are in the 18th period:
That is, we can guess that mago is the final glyph of the henua calendar. If so, then 'noon' in the henua calendar should be reached just before Ga7-16 and the henua calendar can then hardly be a map over also waning sun. Neither should we believe waning sun to be located on side b of K. What happens when we turn side from a to b on the K tablet could possibly be described by using another 'map', a map which depends on Ga5-10:
We should notice that number b6-26 hardly is a coincidence, it agrees with another glyph we just have considered:
Beyond winter solstice (Gb6-26) a new sun path is beginning (Eb6-26). |
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