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TRANSLATIONS
The link 'ata' leads to:
I wrote that ata means shadow. The diacritic marks are later inventions, nothing to use energy on. At the break of dawn, for instance, it is as if the clam was opened with a snap. Inside it was dark, and in a time equal in length to the blink of an eye there is a shadowy inside. Heroes die at sunbreak, it is said. Like stars they disappear. Ata seems to be more related to dawn than to dusk, because ata is to appear, and rima atakai means to be open-handed. On the other hand, stars appear at dusk. The link 'a detour' leads to a series of pages, the first of which is:
Two incredibly dark months (2 * 29 = 58) are followed by a 30-day long month in the shadow. Then the pace maybe should be measured in 61-day long double months. 6 * 61 = 366 and we will arrive at Hanga Te Pau, but it is located at day 366 counted from Gb8-30. Those 58 nights do not count, but from Gb8-30 there are shadows, therefore at least some light. 58 + 366 = 424. What about those 48 which follow to the end of the cycle? They cannot be months. They ought to be 42 + 6. Or 6 + 42. A moa comes in position 7 beyond Hanga Te Pau, which says she introduces 42:
It is a moa with an empty hole where the eye should be. And it has a very long 'snout'. No other moa in G (nor any in H) has such a hole instead of eye. The long 'nose' seems to be turned upside down in Ga3-3:
Or is it not upside down (like a canoe) in Gb5-19 and on its right side in Ga3-3? Ihu and ihe (as in ihe tau) are close in sound, and the garfish has a long snout:
Maybe the very long nose of the spring shark should be measured from Gb5-19 to Ga3-3:
From Gb5-19 to the end of side b there are 100 glyphs, which - we remember - is equal to the number from winter solstice to the end of the long cycle in H:
The hole in honui seems to correspond to the hole in moa. We need two tables:
In H there are 100 days to the end of side b, counted beyond winter solstice at day number 390. First comes 42 nights and then 58 from the dark mago. In G there are also 100 days to the end of side b, but counted from moa with a hole in Gb5-19:
58 is counted from tamaiti up to and including Gb8-29 in order not to count Gb8-30 once again. The glyphs appear to support this view. In H there is no such problem (as far as we know). But to reach 100 we need to count both Gb5-19 and Gb8-30:
Counting from moa with an empty eye-socket we reach another (fictitious) moa after 40 nights. Then a solar winter solstice occurs, followed by tamaiti in position 42. 40 + 1 + 58 + 1 = 100. If winter solstice is at Gb7-2, then it is the first glyph beyond 40 dark nights. Sun does not shine and we have no real nights, they are only imaginary. Gb7-2 will therefore be day number 372 + 1 = 373 and tamaiti day 374. Gb8-30 will be number 472 - 40 = 432, equal to the number of days in H.
Next we must try to reorder H, first we need to change 58 into 60:
This seems to be credible, because Saturday has a Rei:
Furthermore, 431 - the new number for the first day in Saturn's day - is the number the empty-eyed moa has if we count by the moon (from black mago), i.e. neither Saturn nor the empty-eyed moa counts (430 is the number).
Nunber 436 at Gb5-24 is an eye-catching glyph, of a type which Metoro may have associated with 'making a king' (hakaariki):
40 days will appear also in H, counted beyond winter solstice:
Instead of 390 the day number will now be 392 = 8 * 7 * 7, and a quarter will be 392 / 4 = 98. Given 432 (which now both G and H indicate), there are 32 days more than 400. Maybe winter solstice stretches for 10 long nights? Maybe we should have day 392 as only the second of 10 such nights:
The glyphs support that idea. In G we also should find day number 400, i.e. day number 472 - 40 - 32:
We recognize the glyphs beyond number 400, and counting from Gb7-2 we will have the reversed manu rere as number 35:
Instead of 60 = 28 + 32 another arrangement could be 35 + 25 = 60. |
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