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TRANSLATIONS
Mea ke - at the top of nuku (Ha7-25) and manu rere (Ha7-28) - indicates a dark time, and ariki (Ha7-24) has no feathers:
To the right in Ha7-29, however, flames are bursting forth, and vaha mea at Ha7-31 says something similar - the 'red mouth' has opened. From day 224 to day 225 a change has come. Maybe we should think 22-4 respectively 22-5, because the 4th quarter is dark and in the 5th 'quarter' a new fire will come. 4 feathers at left and 4 at right in Ha7-29 means a point of equilibrium, but it is now in the past (at left). Tagata in Ha7-30 has another variant of mauga (darkness) at left. Ha7-31 is an interesting variant of vaha mea, it is 'well fed'. 375 / 3 = 125 = 5 * 5 * 5, 225 = 15 * 15, and indeed also 3 * 75 (in 375) = 225. Another alternative is 3 * 75 = 185. In view of out new perspective of the calendar for the week, it is possible to compare Ha7-31 with Hb9-25 (where 9 * 25 = 225):
After day 460 (= 1080 / 3 + 100), still in Sunday, a new 'season' is announced by moe (Hb9-21). It is the season of the moon, who will take over beyond midsummer and also after noon. We have earlier identified the creature in Hb9-23 as waxing moon and the one in Hb9-25 as waning moon. The reason for a black eye in the growing and lean creature is obvious, black lies in the east where sun is rising and growing ('eating'). After 'noon' there is no more 'sucking' (omotohi), because the measure is full. Hb9-25 and Ha7-31 both are located 'past noon'. The white eye in Hb9-25 is of the same kind as the hole in e.g. Gb1-3:
7 'spines' adorns waxing moon (Hb9-23) and 6 the waning moon (Hb9-25), quite in agreement with the pattern we have found in G, where 70 days come before 60 in the henua calendar. The ordinal number of Hb9-25 is 1085, which possibly can be understood as 108 * 5 = 540. If we then divide by 3 we will find 180, a sign of high summer having been reached. The calendar of the week is also a calendar for the path of the sun. 1085 resembles 185 = 3 * 75 (cfr Ha7-31). The fat vaha mea (Ha7-31) is announcing the opening of a waning season, so much is clear. 7 * 31 = 217, and maybe we should count 413 (with 13 reflecting 31) - as in Tama - and find 7 * 28 = 413 - 217 = 196. 413 is equal to 59 weeks, equal to a 'greater' lunar double month. Seen from this perspective, there will - maybe - be a pattern where the 2nd of these two 'greater lunar months' is somewhat longer:
Here we must look back on what was written in the dictionary regarding Ha7-31:
The number of variables crisscrossing each other is immense. In this jungle we must take one step at a time setting down each foot cautiously. Counting according to moon (59 from Ha6-42 up to and including Ha7-31, and with 91 = 13 * 7 from Ha12-5 to Hb2-23) seems to be the rule in this part of the text. Ha6-42 is located beyond midsummer (317 / 3 = 105⅔ and then we have to add 100, 205⅔ > 180). 6 * 42 = 252 = 7 * 36. 1180 / 3 + 100 = 493⅓ which is equal to the beginning of day 9 * 9 beyond Tama (413). 494 = 19 * 26. At Hb10-55 we are well beyond the end of the path of old sun. Indeed if we add 722 + 861 = 1583 and then divide by 2 to reach the middle, we will have 1583 / 6 + 100 = 363.83, which should indicate day 364, the final day of old sun. The first pair of vaha mea on side b ought to refer to the moon. The first is waxing and the second waning moon (it is thicker). The second pair of vaha mea on side b will rather refer to the sun, because it is time for the new sun to open up the sky. On side a there should be only one vaha mea because it is the side of the sun. On the other hand midsummer is in the past: (317 + 375) / 6 + 100 = 692 / 6 + 100 = 215⅓ = the first part of day 9 * 24 = 216 = 12 * 18. The first pair of vaha mea on side a ought to refer to the sun. The location - alluding to a final for waxing at 12 * 18 - makes it natural to have two vaha mea, the 2nd of which will correspond to waning sun (and it is more well fed that the growing sun vaha mea). Also sun has two phases. Therefore there should be a pair of 'final' vaha mea glyphs too (Ha12-4 and Ha12-5). They are final because of the maro hanging down at right. 631 / 3 + 100 = 310⅓, which means old sun just has ended, 631 = the first part of day 10 * 31 + 1. About one month earlier - if we count with 1 glyph per day - the daylight calendar is ending, appropriately with the last hetuu glyph as number 290 counted from Ha1-1, and as usual in H the dark time ahead will result in glyphs which are less and less visible:
The daylight calendar ends here, we can be sure of by comparing with A, P, and Q. 200 days from winter solstice sun light goes out. 10 * 20 days are allotted to him. By lunar measurement sun should have 10 * 29.5 = 295 days. But 3 * (199 - 100) = 297 does not quite agree, maybe being one reason for why the creator of H left 3 glyph spaces unoccupied. We notice with interest that day number 192 counted from winter solstice agrees with the number of glyphs in K, which text - we have guessed earlier - does not stretch beyond midsummer. Here it is the last day before 'noon' and Ha6-1 is the last 'spring' glyph. The last day in the 'night calendar' is day 188, suggesting the year is more dark than light south of the equator, and that the year can be counted as 188 + 178 = 366 days. Cfr also 278 at the mid measurement in Ha6-3 (where 6 * 3 = 18). The central glyph in day 192 is tapa mea in Ha5-59, and we quickly translate the numbers into 10 * 29.5 = 295 - indeed sun must disappear at noon. Or we could say 'midsummer', because 2 * 75 = 150, half 300. Reading from the ordinal numbers of the glyphs counted from Ha1-1 it is evident that 265 at the beginning of the daylight calendar could allude to Te Pou (at 9 * 29.5 = 265.5), another rising 'sun' place. When we read further on, past sunset, the dark glyphs continue for 2 more positions, and we have suddenly left the daylight calendar to follow only the yearly path of the sun, at least if we compare with the parallel sequences in A and P. Q has cut off the 'spring' sun at noon and does not return to follow hand in hand with H and P until 10 days have passed:
6 * 25 at Ha6-25 = 150, half the ordinal number from Ha1-1. Hura at Ha6-28 is a strong sign (not frequent) and the parallel texts are interesting:
5 * 72 (in Pa5-72) indicates the end of the regular solar year, and in tagata the light has vanished (no eye at right). In Aa1-15 a clear break sign indicates the old season has left (vae at left). In Pa5-68 the left sign is of the same type as that at early dawn in Ha5-50. |
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