TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

Koti in Wednesday is no exception to the rule that sun should be the subject:


Hb9-33	Hb9-34	Hb9-35	Hb9-36	Hb9-37	Hb9-38

The center of the calendar for the week can be, I suggest, correlated with the center of the summer:


Ca3-5	Ca3-6	Ca3-7	Ca3-8
*30 5 = 150**	*30 6 = 180**	*30 7 = 210**	*30 8 = 240**

Yet, the 300-day long year for the sun is beginning 63 + 1 days before the front side of the calendar. This means the 10th and last sun month will end with day 237 counted from the beginning of the front side.

Mercury is therefore closely connected with the end of the sun. Not only is day 180 (half 360) in Mercury's domain (as defined by a calendar which is beginning with the front side), but sun will also end his 300 days (counted from winter solstice) where Mercury is located.

Sun has two exits, one after 10 months and another after 12 months, the same view as among the Maya indians:


*5 Tzek*	*6 Xul*	*7 Yaxkin*	*8 Mol*

*9 Ch'en*	*10 Yax*	*11 Sac*	*12 Ceh*
		200 + 85 + 80 = 365
*13 Mac*	*14 Kankin*	200 + 85 + 80 = 365	*15 Moan*

*16 Pax*	*17 Kayab*	*18 Cumhu*	*19 Vayeb*

*1 Pop*	*2 Uo*	*3 Zip*	*4 Zotz*

At left in 19 Vayeb, the extraordinary 5-day month corresponding to days 361-365, we can guess there is some kind of sign equivalent to koti.

The sun exit at 16 Pax is illustrated by the 'flaring top', and in 5 Tzek a similar sign is used for sun's entrance. From the entrance to the exit there are 11 * 20 = 220 days, a number we recognize from rongorongo. Maybe Ga8-16, e.g., is such an example:

Ga8-16 (220) Ga8-17 Ga8-18 Ga8-19 Ga8-20

220 is her counted from Ga1-1. The preceding glyphs are quite different in character, but Gb1-1 (230 counted from Ga1-1) is obviously a related glyph:


Ga8-26	Gb1-1	Gb1-2	Gb1-3	Gb1-4

8 * 16 = 128, and with another 64 added it becomes 192. There are 10 feathers around this variant of haú. It means 10 periods are now in the past, and it surely must be those 10 * 30 = 300 days of sun counted from winter solstice.

If we instead count from Gb8-30 and add 64, 192 will be the last glyph of those preceding Ga8-16 and this is presumably a more correct view. Ga8-16 is the first of something new. This new season is dependent upon the previous one, which explains why the 10 feathers appear at the back side of haú.

At Gb1-1 it is more clearly described with haú being at left with a curious ure at right. This haú has 8 feathers, and the 'creature' is different from that in Ga8-16. It refers to the moon.

Counting from Gb8-30 it has ordinal number 231, and from Ga8-16 the distance is 11 days. 5 days remain of those 236. Sun will then be at day 300 (from winter solstice) - his 10th station - and moon at her 8th station, together becomes 18 stations.

When 5 days remain for sun, he will be at day 295 which is where we can find Gb1-1. That is where 10 lunar months have passed since winter solstice.

Next day (296 - which is equal to 1296 - 1000) a hanau glyph without head follows, together with a Rogo glyph also without head:


Gb1-1 (295)	Gb1-2	Gb1-3

The 2nd part (the back) of the tablet has begun. A zero where the stomach should be indicates Rogo is empty.

8 * 29.5 = 236 = 10 * 30 - 64. The moon counting begins with Gb8-30, the sun counting from winter solstice.

For moon and sun to meet at Gb1-6, the sun start (winter solstice) must be located 63 glyphs earlier than the moon start. But that can be true only if sun is allowed to use Gb8-30 too.

	60
Gb6-26 (409)	60	Gb8-28	Gb8-29 (471)	Gb8-30
63				1

The back side of the tablet has double glyphs.

354 - 295 = 59 = 118 / 2. And 408 - 118 = 290:

	59		117
Gb1-1 (231)		Gb2-34 (290)		Gb6-25 (408)
295 = 231 + 64		*118 = 4 29.5**		472
295	*177 = 6 29.5**

A strange coincidence must be mentioned. A few hours ago - before I arrived at Ga8-20 by way of the Mayan 'flares' - I 'happened' to scrutizine (once again, for how many times I do not know) the great picture from Posnansky (nailed on the wall in front of my work station) in hope of finding some subtle sign which I had missed earlier:

This time I indeed found such a sign. At top left, we know, the 'cap' sign adorns the 'sceptre' the sun god is holding in his right arm. At top right there is no such sign, instead the 'staff' the sun holds in his left hand is bifurcated (an Y sign). I have interpreted this Y-sign as the 'back side' of the cycle, where moon is waiting for her turn (after the sun bird has gone down - immediately to the right of the 'cap').

Looking closely I now find other differences between top right and top left:

The 'puma' heads have different ears, and the distance between 'nose' and 'eye' is very short on the side of the sun, shorter than on the side of the moon.

The distance between mouth and eye we have in rongorongo read as a measure of age:

young	old

Gb6-21	Gb6-22

Gb6-23	Gb6-24

The symbology should be the same between nose and eye. The snout of dogs, for example, grows longer from childhood to adult. So the left side of the sun god comes later than his right (front) side.

The different ears is not so easy to understand, though. But we are now in a position to compare with the difference between Ga8-16 and Gb1-1, where the form of the 'skuill' first looks like a cap and then becomes distorted in a way not far different from the ear of the puma on the front side:


	Ga8-16	Gb1-1

I have no good explanation for the form of the distorted ear of the puma on the front side (nor of the form of the head in Gb1-1). Gb1-1, though, refers to the moon and Gb8-16 to the sun. If the 'cap ear' adorns the puma who is looking at Y, then the puma is male, I guess. Conversely, the 'moon ear' puma who is looking at the cap should be a female.