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TRANSLATIONS
At last I feel ready to return to the glyph dictionary. The beautiful maze we have discovered must be documented there. Especially as it forms a fundamental view common to G and H. My plan was to examine and make a map of the 8 vaha mea glyphs in H, and then to try to find connections with the mago glyphs. This plan must now be changed, in order to quickly acquire help from the 'beautiful maze':
Here, where we have advanced further, we can at once insert day numbers for the vaha mea glyphs:
The day numbers are counted by adding 58 to the result from dividing the glyph numbers by 3, e.g. is Ha7-31 equal to day number 375 / 3 + 58 = 183, which should be a few days beyond summer solstice - remember that the beginning of the calendar round is a few days beyond winter solstice.
Mea ke (Ha7-25 and Ha7-28) seem to define 181-182 as intercalated days. Because there should be no dark days during summer. However, an alternative reading is to simply count glyphs as days and insist on beginning with Ha1-1. The half obliterated fish manu kake in Ha7-20 (where 7 * 20 = 140) would then of course be followed by dark days. Tagata hau tea at Ha7-32 could indicate a solstice. How clever must we be? Glyph number 376 perhaps should be increased with 58? 376 + 58 = 434 is slightly more than 432, maybe because of the 2 intercalated days 181-182. We expect side a to be the light side, first illuminated by the moon and then by the sun. At day number 180 from the beginning of the calendar round we should be at midsummer. (180 - 58) * 3 = 366 is a natural consequence of the structure. At Ha7-22 occurs glyph number 366 because that is where we will find the last third of day 180. 7-22 can be understood as the 'end of the cycle of 7'. 366 = 3 * 122, which can be understood as 3 times the 'end of the cycle of 1'. This tagata seems to accomplish something, in front is dangling an upside down fat variant of vae. The season of waning sun, it could be, still very small. He holds a central position:
At left is an individual exhibiting a ragi, and the 'hair' is in front as if to indicate a feeding of the ragi unit. At right the kai sign is reversed - it is waning time. From Ha7-23 sun is waning. Vaha mea at Ha7-31 illustrates the opening of the fat white season, which explains the hau tea (white) head of the following tagata.
The ca 20 days earlier occurring vaha mea (Ha6-42) could be a forewarning of the apex ahead. We should notice that there are 58 glyphs from Ha6-42 to Ha7-31, as if to allude to the 58 dark nights from mago at the beginning of the calendar round to Ha1-1. Ha7-31 is glyph number 15 * 25 from Ha1-1, and 7 * 31 = 217 or 'one more' than 216 (= 648 / 3). The numbers explain there is a reversal taking place between the two vaha mea glyphs:
In Ha6-42 a 'point' is in front center, maybe the same type of sign as the point at right in Gb1-5:
A solar perspective presumably should be used, which means Gb1-6 will be day 300 from winter solstice. Below I have counted from the dark mago, not from winter solstice:
Possibly Hb9-59, which is located 4 glyphs earlier than Hb9-63, should be the point from which the sun count must begin:
Hb6-42 will then be glyph number 317 + 3 * 58 + 4 = 495, which means day numer 165 from Hb9-59. We should notice that 9 * 59 = 531, i.e. 'one more' than 18 * 29.5 = 530. On the other hand, we have earlier counted 100 days from winter solstice to Ha1-1, that is what motivates day 42 as the last day of the calendar round above. In this perspective we discover that there are 2 dark days (41-42) here too (cfr 181-182 above). 432 - 4 = 428. The operation transfers us from a 'quarter' (4) of 'multiplication' (32) to one of moon-lit nights (28). Winter solstice we have located at day 432 = 996 / 3 + 100, because of several glyphic signs and other arguments:
The disappearing old sun in Hb7-32 should be compared with Ha7-32:
The distance between them is (988 - 376) / 3 = 204 days, 4 of which presumably are dark intercalated days:
2 of these probably have day numbers 181-182 (cfr above). The other two presumably are have day numbers 431-432 (cfr above). Disregarding the 4 intercalated days there are 200 days from the one to the other:
Hipu at Hb7-37 illustrates that light is coming to an end, and 7 * 37 = 259. The glyph number 993 (counted from Ha1-1) can be read as 99 * 3 = 297, only 3 days remain of those 300 allotted to the sun. 432 - 204 = 228 = 4 * 57, not a good equation. I guess the 'back side' of the calendar will mirror the 'front side' in having 4 intercalated nights. If so, then we will have 432 - 200 - 8 = 224 = 8 * 28, clearly referring to the moon. An important question remains: Why is winter solstice located 100 days earlier than the beginning of side a in H, but only 64 days earlier in G? |
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