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TRANSLATIONS
I have corrected a number of other details too in the pages of henua ora in the dictionary. It is, though, not necessary to list them here. Metoro said vero tahi:
Maybe the 'first' (tahi) 'fall' (vero) comes when the forces of spring tears the rainy skies apart, 'kills' the darkness. The hand gesture at the 'beginning' (ohoga) looks like a bud just about to burst out into three 'eating fingers':
I guess we can associate the three 'eating fingers' with the triplet of 60-day periods between winter solstice and summer solstice. I also guess that the vero are due only when a 'year' is tumbling down. The 'year' which here is overturned must be the 2nd half (from summer to winter solstice) of the previous year. In the 10th period of the E calendar the opposite 'year' (from winter to summer solstice) is overturned. In the 19th period it is the solar 'year' which is top heavy and tumbles down. Aa2-4 has a bottom like a droplet, in Aa2-3 a sign of water is positioned at the top. It is the water which is falling. How are Aa8-27 and Aa2-4 related to each other? Maybe Aa8-27 is the 2nd vero because two glyphs follow (Aa8-28--29) which have the same fundamental shape as the single one we see in Aa2-5:
Counting from Aa2-4 to Aa8-27 in normal fashion we get 603, i.e. the number of glyphs from Aa8-27 to Aa2-4 must be 1,334 - 603 = 731. As we have learnt, however, we must count 'short' or 'long' to avoid odd numbers:
I guess the 'long count' is be used for the longer distance. If so, then we count 'long' from Aa8-27 up to and including Aa2-4 and 'short' between Aa2-4 and Aa8-27. 602 = 14 * 43 732 = 12 * 61 These numbers at first do not look very impressive. But they are. First we notice how 14 suggests the moon and 12 the sun. The 'short' number is associated with the moon and the 'long' with the sun. 43 makes us remember te pito at Ab8-43:
61 is the solar equivalent. It so happens that I decades ago toyed with the fundamental natural numbers in order to see if it was possible to 'wake them up from the dead'. I had grown frustrated with how we nowadays quantify everything leaving the essential (quality) outside, a one-eyed society is a none-eyed society. Among the interesting results I vividly remember 61. Mathematically regarded it is the difference between 53 and 43. As such it is the 5th term in the sequence 1, 7, 19, 37, 61 ... all numbers defined as the differences between two consecutive cubic natural numbers. I had reached the same numbers another way, however, by counting dots (representing small stones) arranged in symmetrical patterns. The hexagonal pattern generates the sequence and it took me a while to realize why. In Chinese checkers the central field has 61 holes:
There is one more hole in the central field than in the 6 surrounding triangular fields, each with 10 holes.
61 inside (in the 'water') and 60 outside (on 'land'). Remarkably, I yesterday counted not only 'long' and 'short' between the two vero glyphs and reached 43 and 61, but I also (as if by coincidence) happened to count the glyphs in the E calendar for the year in order to document them in a structured way, and there too I reached 61. Below is the fundamental model for the E calendar. The 1st period is exceptional and I have moved it to the end of the table:
There are 9 periods (not counting the 1st period) before summer solstice, 3 for the 1st quarter and 6 for the 2nd quarter. Odd number of glyphs in periods 6 and 8 force counting together periods 5-8 to reach 28 and leave 14 more glyphs to add before summer solstice. 42 we recognize and here the number represents the 2nd quarter. The fundamental triplet pattern is broken by the odd-number lines 6 and 8. They are 'marked' by the odd numbers which force a 'square' (otherwise there would haven been triplet groups containing 25 respectively 17 glyphs). A closer inspection reveals the reason for the 'square': The odd-numbered lines (5 and 7) have 6 glyphs each, together summing up to 12, while the even-numbered lines (6 and 8) have 13 + 3 = 16 glyphs. Half of 28 (in a way) is 12 and the other half is 16. The firstmentioned half is the solar 'year' (12 * 15 = 180 days) and the other half is the winter 'year' (13 * 14 = 182 nights). 3 is the difference between 365 and 13 * 14 + 12 * 15. Lines 5-8 define a summary model for the year. The following 9 periods have a basically mirrored structure, with 6 periods for the 3rd quarter and 3 periods for the 4th:
The number of glyphs is 54 here too, though structured in a solar fashion with 20 and 10 adding up to 30 instead of 14 and 28 adding up to 42. Odd number of glyphs in periods 11 and 13 force counting together periods 11-13. I cannot see any reason why we should read together line 14 with lines 11-13. 20 + 4 = 24 (respectively 10 - 4 = 6) would be false, because after summer solstice the season can no longer be characterized as 'quick sun'. Instead, the character is the 'waning sun'. The 'limit' is the message, conveyed by the numbers 10, 20 and 30.
24 glyphs in periods 17-19 can be added to 12 glyphs in periods 2-4 and we get a satisfactory 36 as their sum. This is probably a cue to count together the 42 glyphs in periods 5-10 with the 30 glyphs in periods 11-16. The sum (72) is twice 36. Twice 54 = 108 is a mythic number. Geometrically regarded 108 is the number of degrees in the pentagon corners: 180 * (5 - 2) = 540 and 540 / 5 = 108. '... Says Grimnismal (23): 'Five hundred gates and forty more - are in the mighty building of Walhalla - eight hundred 'Einherier' come out of each one gate - on the time they go out on defence against the Wolf ...' Here 54 + 54 = 108 glyphs represents the regular year. 9 + 9 = 18 periods also represents this regular year. It is interesting to find 108 = 4 * 27 (where 27 of course is 3 * 3 * 3), i.e. 4 cubes defined by number 3. The vero in the 19th period tells us that the regular 'year' ends after 18 periods (period 1 has been moved to the end). 20 * 18 = 360, but maybe the periods have 18 days? 18 * 18 = 324. There must be room for the last 6 periods. Another possibility is 16 * 18 = 288. 324 leaves 365¼ - 324 = 41¼ to the 'dark' part of the calendar, 288 leaves 365¼ - 288 = 77¼ nights:
My attention was drawn to the fact that the odd number of glyphs in period 21 has no partner to combine with in order to reach an even number. Period 21 may therefore represent 'The Sycomore Lady':
'... Wilkinson says that in chapter 109 of the Book of the Dead two 'turquios sycomores' are standing at the eastern gate of the sky, where the sungod Ra enters. The sycomore was a manifestation of the 3 goddesses Nut, Isis, and Hathor, a manifestation by the name 'The Sycomore Lady' ... 61 = 3 + 12 + 20 + 26. In other words, the 61 glyphs represents the 'dark' period outside the regular calendar, the time when moon is 'ruling' and there is no order. It is the central field of the game, hidden beneath the waves of the unruly sea. A new order cannot originate anywhere else than in chaos. 61 is therefore the number which is solar in character, yet points to the time when sun is absent. There are no men allowed when birth is imminent. 43 is the corresponding lunar number, the time of te pito. 61 + 43 = 104 = 4 * 26 = the number of fortnights in four (consecutive) years, possibly to indicate the extra jump at leap year. There are 5 days left before we reach the 29th of February 2008. 61 + 108 = 169 = 132. The creator of the calendar was certainly aware of that. |
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