TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The single (and special) ariga erua on side a seems to be half ariki, judging from the peculiar legs:


*Qa2-8	*Qa2-9	*Qa2-10	*Qa2-11	*Qa2-12	*Qa2-13 (36)

*Qa2-14	*Qa2-15	*Qa2-16	*Qa2-17	*Qa2-18	*Qa2-19

There are ariki glyphs also in Qa2-9 and Qa2-14. 2 * 9 = 18, 2 * 14 = 28, and 2 * 13 = 26 (ariga erua in Qa2-13). The ordinal number for ariga erua counted from Qa1-1 is 36.

Ariki glyphs serve in G the function of marking important distances from winter solstice. Here we have day 36 / 2 + 64 = 82 at ariga erua. But the calendar cycle in Q is not beginning at winter solstice, it is beginning - we have seen - 9 days later. 9 + 82 = 91 and the 'ariki ariga erua' glyph therefore marks the end of the first quarter counted from winter solstice.

The legs are different in the three ariki glyphs:

		2
*Qa2-8	*Qa2-9	2	*Qa2-12	*Qa2-13 (36)	*Qa2-14	*Qa2-15
89		1	91		92

Qa2-14 surely represents the moon, both because of the ragi head and the numbers (2 * 14 = 28). It says by way of rima aueue that the reign of moon is past. 92 = 4 * 23.

Qa2-12 has haga rave at right - the moon comes to rest, the 'baby' (tao in Qa2-11) has arrived.

We leave Q here, because we should try to explain ariga erua in Thursday. The 9 glyphs (not an irrelevant number) can be arranged from the visual cues into the pattern 4 + 5:


Hb9-39	Hb9-40	Hb9-41	Hb9-42

Hb9-43	Hb9-44	Hb9-45	Hb9-46	Hb9-47

The pair sitting back-to-back are contrasted with the single standing up and face-to-face tagata (ariga erua).

I have suggested that the face-to-face position refers to midsummer. If at midsummer the normal head orientation for spring (face towards right, in front) should turn around, then the right head in the glyph - looking back instead of forward - ought to refer to autumn.

Twisting the autumn head around, so that both spring and autumn will be looking at the center of summer, so to say, ought to mean the 'atumn head' must be turned right again later on, reasonably at winter solstice. In Hb9-40 the head is still looking back, but in Hb9-41 the normal forward orientation has been reestablished.

Maybe the reason for the ariga erua glyph which follows the back-to-back sitting pair is to make the reader aware of what happens between Hb9-40 and Hb9-41, and why they are sitting back-to-back. The Y-formed hand in Hb9-40 (where 9 * 40 = 360) ought to represent the old (now barren) year, while in Hb9-41 the hand eating voraciously (fingers spread out) will be the new young vigorous and hungry year.

9 * 42 = 7 * 54, which in a way says we have passed beyond the regular solar year, a deck of cards has 4 * 13 = 52 cards, to which 2 jokers normally are added, and 7 * 52 = 364.

The calendar of the week in H has 42 glyphs, half of which ends in Wednesday:

	19			19
Hb9-17		Hb9-37	Hb9-38		Hb9-58
21			21
42 / 3 = 14 days

Presumably this is a sign so the reader will understand that indeed this is a calendar for the week.

Ariga erua is the central glyph in day 8:


Hb9-38	Hb9-39	Hb9-40	Hb9-41	Hb9-42	Hb9-43
8			9

Hb9-44	Hb9-45	Hb9-46	Hb9-47	Hb9-48	Hb9-49
10			11

The day of 'father light' (Jupiter), has been located in the calendar of H so as to let the reader find out that the beginning of Thursday coincides with day number 366 (Hanga Te Pau, the very last part of the solar year):

glyph numbers and days are counted from Ha1-4

Hb9-39	Hb9-40	Hb9-41	Hb9-42 (1099)	Hb9-43	Hb9-44
366 = 1098 / 3			367

Hb9-45	Hb9-46	Hb9-47	Hb9-48	Hb9-49	Hb9-50 (1107)
368			369

Even if the reader for some reason (e.g. worn out glyphs) would be unable to count to 366 in the text, he may be able to count the number of glyph lines and the ordinal number 40 for Hb9-40 - from which he will conclude 360.

Arranged according to the days, we can see that the ariga erua glyph belongs to the new year.

In another frame of reference (maybe only for the experts) we should add 64 days counted from Friday, in which case day 368 will turn out to be day 368 + 64 = 432, the last day of the calendar cycle (with Friday as day 1 of the cycle).

We need to investigate what the order of the planets in the week really means. A detour is necessary.

Counting from the beginning of the week we can see that mauga in Hb9-49 is the last part of day 11, and that Hb9-50 is the beginning of day 12. The number of 'feathers' is twice 7, as if to say that a fortnight consists of two weeks.