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TRANSLATIONS
At Haga Hônu the explorers caught much fish, but had no fire. In G this description agrees with the fishes rising beyond day 366:
The 5 fishes have a single fire feather on the inside. It is midwinter. In Q there are lots of fishes with fire feathers on the outside, and they occur after Te Pou (day 265.5) and not far before Hua Reva (295):
Indeed, we can say they all occur in Hua Reva, because that month ends with day 295. These redmarked rising (reva) fishes are 8 in number. Qb1-33 is peculiar, it has no fire feathers. If the fire feathers are here used in order to illustrate how the rays of the sun are obscured, then this sign agrees with earlier results:
Hanga Hoonu clearly must be at day 360, according to Q:
The explorers stayed there for 5 days, which can be days 358-362, because *Qb5-17 should be read as Hanga Hoonu. Day 362 (the vero day) will then be the last day of their rest, and day 363 is a new beginning (the Rogo day). The kuhane stations are months and not half months as in the table below:
Yet, there is a kind of logic. Because Hanga Hoonu is the 15th of these 'halfmonths', and if there were 24 days in each, then 360 will be reached at Hanga Hoonu. 24 'halfmonths' times 24 days = 576 = 360 + 216. The numbers are OK, but the structure is strange. 8 lunar months, beginning with Te Pei and ending with One Tea, should be the 'back side' of the 'year', I think. 8 * 29.5 = 236. It would be ridiculous to let sun have only 363 - 236 = 127 days. 127 can be transformed into 12 * 7 = 84, and twice 84 = 168. The message is that sun and moon are equal. The table above has compressed 236 days into half that length, into 118 (= 4 * 29.5) days. This is sound. 363 - 118 = 245 = 10 * 24 + 5. There are 5 days of rest, and sun has 10 months:
From the suggested 1 Hanga Takaure to 7 Hanga Hoonu there are 6 * 24 = 144 days. Then follows 29 + 3 * 24 = 101 days. 1 Hanga Takaure ought to be seen among the glyphs in Q, and there are not many haga rave glyphs to choose among. I have redmarked those which I feel could be possible:
Next we can assign reconstructed glyph numbers:
Ordinal number -17 will enhance the probability, I guess, and we can concentrate on these three:
The prime suspect for Hanga Takaure is *Qa7-17. 360 - 200 = 160 days (not 4 * 24 = 144, but 4 * 24 + 16). 200 is half 400, and if *Qb5-17 is primarily the day beyond 10 * 29.5 days, then Hanga Takaure can indicate the opposite pole of Hanga Hoonu (i.e. midsummer rather than midwinter). If so, then the 245 days imagined from 1 Hanga Takaure to 10 Maunga Hau Epa will also cover the 'back side' of the year. There are 72 days beyond 'day 360' (or day 296) to the end of side b, and 296 + 72 = 368. 72 = 3 * 24. But we have 6 * 14 + 15 = 99 days left to consider:
And in Q there are 270 glyphs (135 days) before Hanga Takaure. 135 + 64 = 199 is close to 99. 6 * 24 = 144 = 12 * 12 days should be in spring. Qa6-14 is a pure glyph, and then somebody is sitting down to eat (grow):
Qa6-17 is in an even glyph line, and haga rave comes at right. And a maro string is growing. Maybe this is Hanga Takaure? Or maybe rather Akahanga? The eating is over in *Qa7-14, and if Hanga Takaure is at midsummer, then it should be in day 200:
Number 136 could be the sun equivalent of the moon 236. Takaure is a word with two parts, taka and ure:
Haga takataka is to disjoin, which is a suitable name for the end of the first 'half' of the 'year', where sun should turn around (fakatakataka). The summer heat has dried up everything and the dry carapace of a horse-fly (takaure) can describe the 'dead' spring sun growth. I think we can be sure that Hanga Takaure is where the spring sun (ure) at last will take his rest, and like Rigi he will be quite exhausted and die. Taka means not only to form a circle (etc), but also to get together (of people). Te Piringa Aniva is where this should happen. We can guess that it is at the end of the 'year', but not in midwinter but in midsummer. The kuhane comes to the island at Nga Kope Ririva, and spring will begin at Te Pu Mahore (where a little fish will spawn):
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