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TRANSLATIONS
Objects imbued with mana can be viewed from more than one perspective. A bird man, e.g., may be a man bird if looked at from another direction:
We should therefore recognize that the table arrived at:
may be looked at like this instead:
Noon, as earlier found, cannot be a period in the middle of 10 periods, because 10 is an even number. Instead, if we look for a noon period we must admit that there is no such period. Noon is located between period no. 5 and period no. 6:
There are 4 glyphs in period no. 5 (Pa5-47--50), and superficially seen we therefore have 19 glyphs during a.m. and 16 during p.m. But if we don't want noon to be included in the 'growing phase' of the sun, we must exclude both noon periods, not just the 2nd of them. Therefore we have two different views: the 'lunar view' (noon not included) and the 'solar view' (the 1st of the noon periods included in a.m.). Theoretically, of course, there might be other views too, e.g. that both noon periods are counted to a.m. (although Pa5-51 does not show any sign of growing). However, the numerical results are not as good: 23 glyphs for a.m and 12 for p.m. 23 is an ugly number, telling us nothing, a dumb number. "dumb ... destitute of speech, mute ... lacking some quality, etc., normally present ... The orig. sense was prob. 'stupid', 'without understanding', from which the senses 'deaf' and 'dumb' would be developed by specialization in different ways ..." (English Etymology) It would be equally 'dumb' to start with a demand for numberical symmetry, e.g. from 48 and decide that 24 glyphs was referring to a.m. and 24 to p.m. That would necessitate moving also period no. 4
to p.m. which obviously is wrong, with not only a feeding sun but also a quick one. The arrived at 'solar view' therefore should be right. Confirmation - in a way - is also given from the numbers: 48 (a number in the 'solar series' 3, 6, 12 ...) is the number of glyphs in the calendar. We have concluded that the number of glyphs for p.m. is 16 and that is 1/3 of 48. Sun has three wives (in a lunar perspective). The 'night wife' stretches past the 13 glyphs of the 'night' and to her belongs the dawn period:
This fact we knew already (by the Y-signs in Pa5-32, by sun being below the horizon in Pa5-33, and by the number of marks - 9 - on tapa mea in Pa5-34). On the other hand (nothing ever is simple) the number of marks on tapa mea is 7 from then on, until we have passed noon. In period no. 7 they become 6.
Black for period of 'double rule', red for 'Poike' and blue for 'ordinary sun rule'. 3 * 7 for blue a.m. signals three 'sun-lit females' (because 7 is 1/4 of 28) and 3 * 6 for blue p.m. signals three 'mature suns' (one for each 'sun-lit female'). Like this we may let our imagination run away without end (a sign of mana in the object viewed). We can also add and find the 'lunar' sum: 3 * 7 + 3 * 6 = 39 = 3 * 13 (three nights with the sun, one for each wife). 14 for noon (red above) is ½ * 28, whereas 9 + 6 (black above) cannot be connected to 28. But it should perhaps be read as an allusion to those ca 29½ nights which make up a lunar month.
The subject we must discuss is the calendar in H. Regard all these involved ideas about A, P and Q as a warm-up. According to the earlier summary of number of glyphs in the four tablets (updated as regards P) we have:
There is a strong sign here in the form of 12 glyphs for the night in A and H, which we interpret as a solar view of the calendar (whereas P and Q lean heavily on the lunar view as marked by 13 night glyphs). Note that we must remember to read downwards in A (which starts with X, continues with day and ends with night), whereas H, P and Q should be read upwards (like the rongorongo tablets), starting with night, continuing with day and ending with X. On one hand we have 12 nights in H (as in A) and on the other we have X at the end (as in P and Q). This is the reason why I have waited with discussing the H calendar and it comes last of the four calendars. Revising the P numbers I arrived at the possible conclusion to integrate the X period with p.m. to reach number 26. This give us yet another view of the P calendar, where 54 is the sum of 28 and 26. 15 for a.m. is 19 minus the 5th period (the 1st noon period), i.e. noon as a whole is moved to the p.m. group of glyphs. 28 we have identified as the number of sunlit moon nights in a lunar month, but 26 is not so clearly defined yet. We have met 26 early in this site, as a possible reading of the number of (regular) periods in the calendar of the year in Large Santiago (H). 26 is also twice 13 (or ½ the numbers of weeks in a 364-night year).
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