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TRANSLATIONS
Once again, we will began counting with day 1 at Ab8-45--46, and after 8 solar months henua koti (with the lower part longer than the top part) indicates the end of the sun season of the year (the front side, side a of the tablet):
The henua periods belong on the front side, therefore a broken henua indicates the end of this season. There are 8 months for the sun and then will follow, presumably, 8 months for the moon. 240 + 236 = 476, but sun overlaps moon with 4 days and the total will therefore be 472 days. The strange ika hiku at Aa6-26 is located at the beginning of next phase for the sun, and 6-26 seems to be the proper number combination for such an event:
1334 - (40 + 440) = 854 glyphs remain, possibly equal to 854 / 2 = 427 (= 7 * 61) days. 427 is like a 'reversed' 472, and if it is such a sign, then it should mean 'the beginning of the season which ends with day 472' (presumably the 16 * 29.5 = 472 day long lunar calendar). Maybe we should instead count only the remaining glyphs on side a: 670 - 480 = 190. Maybe we should reduce only with 440: 670 - 440 = 230. Day 240 in A ought to be the day before summer solstice (according to the numbers in Aa6-26). In G the text on side a has summer solstice located around glyph number 180 - 64 = 116, and Ga5-5 has a sun sign in form of a triplet of 'balls' at left with a 'midnight henua' at right:
230 - 116 = 114 days then remain from Rei at Ga5-6 to the end of side a on G. Therefore the equivalent 230 days remaining of side a on A (beyond day 240 counted from Ab8-45) seems to be more of a sign than a measure of days. 240 is 10 more than 230, i.e. the halfway point from Ab8-45 to the end of side a is 'at left' of Aa6-24 (sun, 6, combined with 24 tens of days). (240 + 230) / 2 = 470 / 2 = 235:
236 / 8 = 29.5 which means that according to the moon her season comes from the beginning of the 2nd half of side a. Number 6-14 can be read as sun (6) having reached his limit because of moon (14) - the strange tamaiti seems to have a vertical break and if so it is a variant of koti. There are 10 feathers around the bottom ('cup') part. In G:
With day 1 at Ab8-45 and counting 2 glyphs per day we have, though, not reached midsummer with day 240, we have instead counted two months past midsummer. Moon takes over from sun two months beyond midsummer, we turn to the back side of the tablet after 8 months. But not so in A, the corresponding point in time lies at the midpoint from Ab8-45 to the end of side a. Counting with a 400-day long cycle, day 200 will come in the center of line Ga5, and 75 % of the cycle will be reached at hau tea in Ga8-23:
Yet, 8 * 23 = 184 as if to suggest that only half of the cycle is in the past. Which of course it is, because then follows the moon half. The number of feathers is 5 (at left, referring to the sunny side) and 9 (at right, to indicate the disappearance of sun), and the sum (14) refers to the moon. A dark patch between 5 and 9 could illustrates the dark time when sun disappears and moon still has not risen. |
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