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TRANSLATIONS
The link 'evidently form a calendar
for the week' leads to these pages:
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There
are very many signs which can help us to understand. To begin
with the reversed tapa mea ('no daylight' - the 5 true planets
need the fall of night to become visible):
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Moon |
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4 |
Jupiter |
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7 |
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Ca2-24 |
Ca3-9 |
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Mars |
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6 |
Venus |
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6 |
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Ca3-2 |
Ca3-14 |
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Mercury |
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6 |
Saturn |
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6 |
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Ca3-5 |
Ca3-17 |
However, moon has her 'feathers of light' oriented forward (Ca2-24),
they can be seen also in broad daylight.
Mars
and Jupiter (Ca3-2 respectively Ca3-9) have thick reversed tapa
mea glyphs - presumably indicating strong light (in the night).
Mercury is the opposite, he has only a weak light, and Saturn has
the same characteristic.
Two
powerful planets (Mars and Jupiter) are counterbalanced by
two weak ones (Mercury and Saturn).
Venus
is special, her tapa mea has at left a straight vertical line
- by Venus time measurements are made.
4
'feathers' for the moon (she is close to the earth), and 6 for the
true planets - excepting Jupiter who gets 7. The sum for the true
planets is 4 * 6 + 7 = 31. With Jupiter comes the final and also the new
beginning - 'one more' than 30. He seems to stand inside the 'door' (to
the new year),
though still it is dark.
64 is
the number of the last glyph in Thursday. Then the morning star will
rise. Her fists are held high and
full. But the hands of Jupiter are 'in straw' (formed like Y).
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Mars
and Jupiter belong together, not only do they have the Y-hands, but
also the peculiar type of kiore amalgamated with henua:
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Mars |
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Ca3-2 |
Ca3-3 |
Ca3-4 |
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Jupiter |
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Ca3-9 |
Ca3-10 |
Ca3-11 |
Ca3-12 |
Ca3-13 |
Mars is seen to 'create' (toki) light (hau tea),
true to his character as the planet 'ruling' the arrival of
light in spring. Jupiter is his
'antipode', the phase of sun which rules autumn. In autumn it is
not light which is being born (hanau), it is the dark
season (7 'feathers' on the reversed tapa mea, the one in
the center wilting).
The great 'mouth' (vaha kai
in Ca3-10) at the western horizon is waiting to swallow the sun
(as Jupiter), and beyond is puo (Ca3-11) and koti. Ata
puo means to 'hill up a plant' (an action which covers the
plant so it will be out of sight for the light):
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Pu'o
(Also pu'a); pu'o nua,
one who covers himself with a nua (blanket), that
is to say, a human being. Vanaga.
1. To dress, to clothe, to dress the
hair; puoa, clothed; puoa tahaga, always
dressed. 2. To daub, to besmear (cf. pua 2);
puo ei oone, to daub with dirt, to smear. 3. Ata
puo, to hill up a plant. Churchill. |
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Mercury has his kiore-henua as number 59 (counted from
Ca1-1), a number which presumably indicates the dark night
at the end of 2 months, and henua is here depicted in a
shape similar to that of
henua for Venus (in her kiore-henua glyph):
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Mercury |
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Ca3-5 |
Ca3-6 |
Ca3-7 |
Ca3-8 (59) |
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Venus |
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Ca3-14 |
Ca3-15 |
Ca3-16 |
Venus has aquired a little peg up front in her henua,
whereas Mercury has lost a similar part from his.
Mercury comes after Mars. While Mars brings light (hau tea),
Mercury brings land (henua), of a sort:
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Ca3-3 |
Ca3-6 |
3
* 3 = 9 and 3 * 6 = 18. The season of dry land (henua)
will come after light has been brought by Mars into the sky. Mercury is
located between spring and autumn, in high summer.
But Mercury must also carry out his important function to fertilize the
dry earth by bringing down heavenly rain:
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Mercury |
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Ca3-5 |
Ca3-6 |
Ca3-7 |
Ca3-8
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Quicksilver (the 'living', quick, silver) runs downwards.
Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus, are necessary agents in bringing
forth:
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Koti in Ca3-12 will from
this perspective be the end of the rule of king Jupiter ('Father Light'),
beyond which Venus will be responsible for bringing forth new light by the
magic of the reappearance of her 'morning star'.
The 'morning star' is the new sun
born at winter solstice.
3-14 and the straight vertical
line means the rule of the old sun has ended.
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Ca3-10 |
Ca3-11 |
Ca3-12 |
Ca3-13 |
Old sun is being swallowed at
Ca3-10, then the opening is covered up (Ca3-11). Possibly koti at
Ca3-12 indicates a kind of reemergence. It could be the 'spirit' which has
left the 'egg shell'.
3-10 can be read as 300 and 3-12
as 360, in which case Ca3-11, will be at 330.
11 indicates 'one more', and that may explain the curious shape of puo. From
the bottom bulb a new one will rise. You bury a potato and it will then
multiply.
One thing bothers me: In P the
koti glyph does not come in Thursday but in Friday:
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Pb10-52 |
Pb10-53 |
Pb10-54 |
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Hb9-48 |
Hb9-49 |
Hb9-50 |
It is as if the creator of the P
text was unaware of the deeper mythic theme, as if he thought the week only
reflected what can be seen in the heavens. Had he maybe 'grown up' with help
from the missionaries?
It would explain his bad habit of
putting empty holes where there should be living eyes in manu rere.
And it would also explain why he has a 'sun is present' (vai) glyph
in Sunday:
In the homeland of the
missionaries sun will be shining when there is night on Easter Island.
He seems to have been aware of the
'value' of 10-30 - sun is present up to day 300.
Quite interesting is his 'living'
manu rere in Pa4-30, preceded by tagata showing in front
vai:
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Ha4-44 |
Ha4-45 |
Ha4-46 |
Ha4-47 |
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Pa4-26 |
Pa4-27 |
Pa4-28 |
Pa4-29 |
Pa4-30 |
Pa4-31 |
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*Qa4-24 |
*Qa4-25 |
*Qa4-26 |
*Qa4-27 |
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