TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The last page of the 'investigation':

If we think that Cb11-18 is referring to day 366, then we can reconstruct the other day numbers:

		13			62
Cb11-17	Cb11-18 (662)		Cb12-10 (676)	Cb12-11		Cb14-19 (740)
366	367		381	382		445

Before running ahead we must see if the assumption of 1 glyph per day fits with Cb11-17 as day 366. Or whether we should count 2 glyphs per day and find another suitable first glyph. Or whether neither gives a satisfactory result. Let us first, though, note that 661 - 366 = 295 (= 10 lunar months). There may be more than one point from which to begin counting.

Koti at top right in Cb12-10 presumably refers to the end of the dark season, but the break in Cb11-18 is horizontal, which may be a sign of the moon. The rising kahi fish in Cb11-17 is curved. The day number should rather be 295 then 366.

Glyph number 1 - if we have decided Cb11-17 to be number 295 - is, of course, glyph number 366 (counted from Ca1-1):


Ca13-19	Ca13-20
Ca13-19	Ca13-20	*Ca14-1	*Ca14-2	*Ca14-3 (366)	*Ca14-4	*Ca14-5

These glyphs probably refer to winter solstice. Cb11-18 should therefore not refer to winter solstice. Instead the 'station' is rather to be identified as the 10th kuhane station (10 * 29.5 = 295).

Our main goal has been reached, to get a grip on the inverted maro at right in Cb11-18. It presumably defines a moon station, the 10th kuhane station:

summer solstice	winter solstice	8 lunar months	10 lunar months

Ga5-15	*Ca14-23	Gb1-7 (237)	Cb11-18 (296)

And like the inverted maro in Gb1-7 it comes immediately after the station in question.

Sun has the direction up (flames are rising), moon has the direction down (water is sinking). Yet the moon is rising and the sun sinking, at times.

The high sky roof at midsummer explains the extra space added as a sign in Ga5-15. The dark midwinter explains half the feathers being hidden in *Ca14-23.

6 + 6 = 12 feathers in Ga5-15 correspond to 6 months in the past and 6 in the future. Those in the future are in front, where the sky roof is slightly lower. But the feather string in front is longer and slightly more curved (both in Ga5-15 and in *Ca14-23). Moon is the reason for both effects. Moon is basically curved, not straight as the rays from the sun. And the moon calendar stretches beyond the sun calendar.

If we should count with 2 glyphs per day, as suggested in the page, then 366 (= 6 * 61) will become 3 * 61 = 183. But 661 would be the first half of day 662 / 2 = 331, with 3 * 31 = 93. The idea does not seem feasible.

661 - 366 = 295 can, though, be changed into 661 - 295 = 366. Where is day number 295 counted from Ca1-1 (with 1 glyph per day)? It is at Ca11-11 in the 5th of 10 periods of unclear mening:

5
	Ca11-10	Ca11-11 (295)	Ca11-12	Ca11-13	Ca11-14

	Ca11-15	Ca11-16	Ca11-17	Ca11-18	Ca11-19

Although there is a Rogo glyph (Ca11-13) in this period it is not alone, there are 2 more in the preceding period:

4
	Ca10-28	Ca10-29	Ca11-1	Ca11-2	Ca11-3	Ca11-4

	Ca11-5	Ca11-6	Ca11-7	Ca11-8	Ca11-9

Those in the 4th period seem to be influenced by the moon. But we cannot here and now discuss the meaning of this 10-period calendar, it should wait until moko.