TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

In G there are ariki glyphs both with and without feathers. Disregarding the peculiar Gb3-7 (and atariki in Ga1-24) there is, though, only one ariki without feathers:


Ga1-5	Ga1-13	Ga1-24	Ga2-21	Ga5-24	Ga6-3	Ga7-6

Gb3-7	Gb7-11

Without doubt this ariki is located 'among the shadows':


Ga2-20	Ga2-21	Ga2-22	Ga2-23	Ga2-24	Ga2-25	Ga2-26

Ga2-27	Ga2-28	Ga2-29 (60)	Ga3-1	Ga3-2	Ga3-3	Ga3-4

6 days remain to the first of the henua periods and 8 days to the close of those 4 * 29.5 = 118 needed to reach the great niu at Ga2-29. Possibly 2-29 alludes to the necessity of adding 2 * 29 to 60.

4 weeks have passed from atariki:

	61			23		27
Gb6-26 (409)		Gb8-29	Gb8-30		Ga1-24		Ga2-21 (52)
63			24		28

If atariki stands at spring equinox (63 + 25 = 88 days counted from winter solstice, given we count Gb8-30 only once), then sun ought to be present. Yet he seems to be a few days late. The calendar is not beginning with Gb6-26 but with tamaiti (Gb7-3), 5 days later, which explains the delay:


Gb6-26	Gb6-27	Gb6-28	Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3
0	1	2	3	4	5

The 'fire generator' (Ga2-26) comes 5 days after ariki in Ga2-21. So it should be possible to find sun approaching already at day 88 counted from winter solstice. Day 90 is, significantly, represented by a haú glyph (which usually are used to mark the end of a season).

And, possibly, ordinal number 52 at Ga2-21 has been determined in order to make the reader reflect on 7 * 52 = 364 and on the number of the 'fire generator' (2 * 26 = 52). There is a hidden connection between the not quite real (open circumference) ariki in Ga2-21 and the 'fire generator', both come 116 days after the beginning of the year (winter solstice respectively tamaiti at Gb7-3):

	61				50
Gb6-26 (1)	61	Gb8-29 (63)	Gb8-30 (64)	Gb8-30 (65)	50	Ga2-21 (116)
	56				55
Gb7-3 (1)	56	Gb8-29 (58)	Gb8-30 (59)	Gb8-30 (60)	55	Ga2-26 (116)

116 = 4 * 29. We need to count Gb8-30 twice. Atariki will therefore represent day 89 counted from winter solstice, the last day before a new quarter will open its eye:


Ga1-23	Ga1-24 (89)	Ga1-25 (90)	Ga1-26

This exercise 'proves' we should count with 64 respectively 59 days at the end of side b, and that the beginning two months is measured by 32 for the sun irrespective of any mythical dark initial age for the moon.

Tao in Ga1-25 has a position 'parallel' with Rei in Ga2-27.

Once again, let us compare with H. Day 1 at mago mea ke is 58 days before the end of side b:

			56		...	...
Hb9-63	Hb9-64	Hb9-65 (1125)		Hb12-49	*Hb12-50	*Hb12-51 (1296)
day 1 = 1125 / 3 + 58 - 432				day 58

Day 59 we have identified with Ha1-1--3:


Ha1-1	Ha1-2	Ha1-3	Ha1-4	Ha1-5	Ha1-6
day 59			day 60

Given that we regard Ha1-1--3 as day 64 instead, we have to go back 5 days and define the end of day 1 as glyph number 1125 - 3 * 5 = 1110:

			61		...	...
Hb9-48	Hb9-49	Hb9-50 (1110)		Hb12-49	*Hb12-50	*Hb12-51 (1296)
day 1 = 1110 / 3 + 63 - 432				day 63

The central glyph in Friday is mauga, the sign of darkness. The split is clear in the following koti. The phases of Venus can be played with to define the two seasons, 'morning' and 'evening'. With mauga in the central position the dark phase of Venus is referred to.

Winter solstice is the death of sun, with 'evening' before and 'morning' in front. In G there are 236 glyphs (counted from Gb8-30) to the turnaround from 'morning' to the phase of invisibility:

phase	observed periods	periods in the Mayan 'map'	difference
morning star	263	236	- 27
black	50	90	+ 40
evening star	263	250	- 13
black	8	8	0
sum	584	584	0

584 = 360 + 224 = 12 * 30 + 8 * 73 we have recently learnt. And recently we have also come to appreciate the presence of 250 (= 314 - 64) in the texts:


Gb1-13	Gb1-14	Gb1-15	Gb1-16	Gb1-17	Gb1-18

Gb1-19	Gb1-20	Gb1-21 (249)	Gb1-22	Gb1-23	Gb1-24