TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Once again, Gb4-30 is close to the end of the 354 days defined by 12 * 29.5, while Gb5-3 is close from the beginning of next season:


Gb4-28	Gb4-29	Gb4-30	Gb4-31	Gb4-32	Gb4-33

Gb5-1	Gb5-2	Gb5-3	Gb5-4	Gb5-5	Gb5-6

Jupiter is the last of the 4 pillars upholding the sky roof and Venus is the female which will enable him (or rather the Sun) to return 'embodied' in a new cycle. As when Moon in the 29th night renews herself in the rays from the Sun (vaiora a Tane) so will Sun come back after winter solstice renewed by Venus.

If we remember how the old 'tree' was turned upside down at the beginning of line Gb8, we can see a similar situation at the beginning of line Gb5:


Gb8-2	Gb8-3	Gb8-4

Gb5-2	Gb5-3	Gb5-4

Instead of the 'dead' old tree in line Gb8 there is another kind in line Gb5 - a type which looks the same after having been turned upside down (a 'midnight henua'). But the surrounding signs help us, the 'thread' at bottom left in Gb5-2 has been relocated to top right in Gb5-3, probably to illustrate how the 'hour-glass' has been turned around. The 'feathered rib' at right in Gb5-2 has been turned upside down too, but it has also changed side (in order to keep in front). The little oval hanging even further in front seems to be a transformation of the two moon-like crescents at left in Gb5-2.

In addition to these preliminary remarks we need a few more pages of investigation.

I have chosen to name the feathered object up front in Gb5-2 as a 'rib', alluding to how Adam created Eve from his 'rib'. Maybe Jupiter created Venus from his 'rib':

rib ... any of the curved bones articulated to the spine ... wife, woman (in allusion to Gen. ii 21) ... OHG. hirni|reba brain-pan, cranium, Gr. orophē roof ... (English Etymology)

Once Eve was created, Adam could 'multiply'. If Adam is Sun (in his Jupiter garment), then Eve will be the Moon. She determines life and therefore also the time for death, as when tagata comes in Gb5-6.

With Jupiter as the mask of Sun, then Venus will be the mask of Moon. Venus has like Moon two phases of light.

The first of 'a few more pages of investigation':

If we go by the ordinal numbers counted from Gb1-1, then a 'dark Saturn' cube 5 by 5 by 5 ends with the reversed hau tea at the beginning of line Gb5. From Jupiter at Gb5-2 Sun possibly will return in a new and better shape ('recovers from illness'). A 'midnight henua' should be the beginning of next 'day':


Gb5-2 (126)	Gb5-3	Gb5-4	Gb5-5 (129)	Gb5-6	Gb5-7

According to Wikipedia the Hindu Saturn, Shani, had bad effects on Sun:

"... It is said that when Shani opened his eyes as a baby for the very first time, the sun went into an eclipse, which clearly denotes the impact of Shani on astrological charts. He is known as the greatest teacher. Shani deva is said to be very harmful to those who follow the path of betrayal, backstabbing and unjust revenge. He is known in Hindu scriptures as the greatest trouble giver as well as the greatest well wisher. He is depicted dark in colour, clothed in black; holding a sword, arrows and two daggers and variously mounted on a black crow ..."

Moria, the offering after a recovery from illness, should be the station of sun at Gb5-2, I think. Hanga Moria One is the 26th kuhane station ('one more' than 5 * 5), and it so happens that Jupiter (Sun as the 'Tree' needed for igniting a new fire) in this week has number 126 ('one more' than 5 * 5 * 5 counted from Gb1-1).

At right in the glyph there is rising a 'rib' with 6 + 6 'feathers', and next day Venus has turned the 'midnight henua' upside down and from it generated two 'fruits', maybe illustrating the new cycles of sun respectively moon.

The location of Saturn as described in the picture of Shani above is close to where next incarnation arrives - the two serpent heads meet to the right (from us seen) of the head of Shani. Judging from Shani as the black crow (whose head should be in front) Saturn has his seat just beyond the gap between the years. This agrees with 5 * 5 * 5 = 125 coming immediately beyond Hatinga Te Kohe.

The rest of the pages:

If we focus on the 'son' (the reapperance of Sun after he has left his Jupiter 'garment') we must notice the details. There is a little mark where the neck would be if the 'hanging fruit' alludes to rau hei, and it is the same sign as in Gb3-23:


rau hei	Gb5-3	Gb3-23

It is as if the 7th 'feather' at the lowest point of the 'fruit' in Gb5-3 has cut into the neck of the hanging body. Sun should have only 6 double-months in a year. A sickle may have been used to stop him from moving further.

In Gb3-23 (at 314 counted from Gb8-30) there should be 4 + 4 = 8 'feathers' around the upper shape and 4 around the bottom knob, I guess. A 9th 'feather' has 'broken the neck'.

23 is a Jupiter day. But the hanging 'fruit' is a prolongation of the 'arm' at left, and 8 indicates the moon rather than the sun (and the shape of the arm is formed like a moon crescent). Jupiter cannot give birth to a baby by himself, only females like Venus and Moon can give birth. Maybe we, therefore, should reckon the month as the Gilbertese and end with night number 20, in which case 23 will be 3 and a Venus day:


Gb3-17	Gb3-18	Gb3-19	Gb3-20

1	2	3	4	5	6

7	8	9	10

We can then compare with the beginning of line Gb5, and in both places hau tea comes at the beginning:


Gb5-1	Gb5-2	Gb5-3	Gb5-4	Gb5-5	Gb5-6

Gb5-7	Gb5-8	Gb5-9	Gb5-10

Also the other glyphs do fit rather well, for instance is vai as number 5 (Sun) better than as number 25 (Saturn). Number 6 becomes Moon and she has 2 phases.

Logic then forces us to also renumber the glyphs beyond Gb4-20:


8	9	10	11	12	13

Gb5-1	Gb5-2	Gb5-3	Gb5-4	Gb5-5	Gb5-6

At day 10 Venus now appears, as she should because I have associated her with the beginning, and hua is the sign for that.

Although Gb4-30 (10) is close to Gb5-3, only a week away, there is not much in common in the details. Gb4-30 has only one 'fruit' and there is some resemblance with Ca7-14, and also with Ka3-14:


Gb4-30 (10)	Ca7-14 (260)	Ka3-14 (60)

In Ka3-14 the middle portion of the sign at bottom left agrees with how the middle portion of the crescent at left in Gb4-30 has been 'deformed' into a straight 'leaning forward tree' (or inverted 'rib' - cfr Gb5-2). The 'claw' formed by the bottom of Ka3-14 seems to be the same sign as at bottom left in Ca7-14 (though there reversed).

60 comes 200 days earlier than 260, and 200 days are apparently measured out for the season of waxing. 200 is 10 * 20.

The 'leaning forward tree' in Gb4-30 - as well as the 3 'feathers' at right - should refer to the coming spring.

The ordinal number for Gb4-30 counted from Gb8-30 is 351, and there are 472 - 351 = 121 glyphs remaining on side b. Counted from Gb1-1 the ordinal number is also 121. The idea seems to be to say 11 * 11, a square of 'one more' (than 10). Gb4-30 will then mean that next year's sun is already hanging there waiting.

121 + 121 + 121 = 363 (the day of Rogo). There is room for a triplet of 'babies' in a year.

The rising 'rib' in Gb4-30 is not the Moon, so much is clear. Neither should it be the Sun, because it is drawn as a separate unit. Remains only Venus, I think.

If so, then Venus should occur in Ka3-14 as if announcing an opening (vaha) ahead. Mars colours this opening read (mea).

Then Venus will be reversed after 200 days (according to Ca7-14), 4 glyph lines ahead (if it had been the same text). The 3 feathers at the top of Ka3-14 are in Ca7-14 turned to the back side of the rising fish - because the glyph is reversed.

By counting only 20 nights in a month, there is no conflict between 200 days and the 263-day cycle of Venus as morning star.

263 can be read as 26 and 3, a sign that there are 3 'babies' in addition to 260 days. These babies could be Sun and the two Moons (waxing and waning), or they could be Sun, Moon, and Venus.

But Venus is just a mask of the Moon. Therefore the 3 babies should be Sun (the first half year) and Moon (the second half year).