TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

4 days beyond ika hiku comes another shark, mago at Ga7-16, which by its bent tail illustrates how sun is making a turn after reaching his maximum:

32
32	Ga7-11	Ga7-12 (182)	Ga7-13	Ga7-14
33
33	Ga7-15	Ga7-16 (186)	Ga7-17

This is what we can read from the calendar which begins with Gb8-30. There is no lunar month deciding day numbers 182 and 186, 6 lunar months is reached with Ga7-7:

31
31	Ga7-5	Ga7-6	Ga7-7 (177)	Ga7-8	Ga7-9	Ga7-10 (180)

10 days later comes Ga7-17, which definitely ends the 'front side'. It is glyph number 260 counted from Gb6-17:

	72	186
Gb6-17 (400)			Ga7-17 (187)
260

Winter solstice is 64 days earlier than the beginning of the 'front side'. Counted from Rogo (Gb6-26) it is not day number 260 but day number 251, with mago (Ga7-16) at day number 250.

There is a tamaiti in Ga7-11 which seems to be closely connected with the following ika hiku. This is described in here.

251 is the number of glyphs from Aa1-1 up to the end of glyph line Aa3.


Aa3-72	Aa3-73	Aa3-74	Aa3-75	Aa3-76 (251)

Aa4-1	Aa4-2	Aa4-3	Aa4-4	Aa4-5 (256)	Aa4-6

Aa4-7	Aa4-8	Aa4-9	Aa4-10	Aa4-11 (262)

Number 251 combines with 44 (added from Ab8-41 to the end of side b) into 295. 251 also combines with 63 (reversed 36) into 314.

The page from 'here':

Redmarked glyphs indicate important points from which to start counting:


Gb6-17 (400)	Gb6-18	Gb6-19	Gb6-20	Gb6-21	Gb6-22	Gb6-23	Gb6-24

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28	Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3 (414)	Gb7-4

Tamaiti in Gb7-3 is a special case, because it is located where 14 lunar months are ending. 14 * 29.5 = 414. The 'measure' of a 'greater fortnight' has run out.

If we count from Gb6-17 we will find hanau in Ga8-18 after 10 lunar months:

			70	219
Gb6-17 (400)	Gb6-18	Gb6-19	70	219	Ga8-16	Ga8-17	Ga8-18 (222)
295

If we then change the point of beginning to tamaiti the day number for this hanau glyph will be less. However, we must begin the counting from Gb7-4, because tamaiti belongs to the previous 'greater fortnight':

				57	219
Gb7-1 (412)	Gb7-2	Gb7-3	Gb7-4			Ga8-16	Ga8-17	Ga8-18 (222)
			280

Gb7-4 comes 15 glyphs later than Gb6-17 and 295 will be changed to 280. Still, it is of course possible to reach 295 days by continuing beyond Ga8-18:

	57	235
Gb7-4			Gb1-6	Gb1-7 (237)
295

With Te Pei at 8 * 29.5 = 236, the measure of 8 lunar months is full. At Tama (Gb7-3) likewise a measure is full.

The other tamaiti (Ga7-11) is not at any such lunar measure, it is instead related to the sun:

	57	180			53
Gb7-4			Ga7-11 (181)	Ga7-12		Gb1-6	Gb1-7 (237)
240					55
295

Ika hiku in Ga7-12 indicates the full measure for the sun of spring. Counted from Gb8-30 tamaiti in Ga7-11 serves as a mark for the beginning of the 2nd half of 360 days:

		178			176
Gb8-30	Ga1-1	178	Ga7-11 (181)	Ga7-12	176	Gb5-5	Gb5-6 (360)
180			180

Ika hiku at Ga7-12 is number 182 (half 364) counted from Gb8-30. alternatively number 58 + 182 = 240 counted from Cb7-4.

Finally, counting from Rogo does not result in any obviously remarkable results:

	63	180			53
Gb6-26 (1)			Ga7-11 (181)	Ga7-12		Gb1-6 (300)
*244 = 8 30.5**			*56 = 2 28**

Both the tamaiti glyphs and ika hiku in Ga7-12 are - it appears - without any connection with the real solstices. Summer solstice is not 180 days counted from Gb8-30, it comes earlier.