TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

The salmon swimming in the dark well (winter solstice) swallowed hazel nuts, and look - bright spots (like stars) appeared:

... a beautiful fountain called Connla's Well, near Tipperary, over which hung the nine hazels of poetic art which produced flowers and fruit (i.e. beauty and wisdom) simultaneously. As the nuts dropped into the well they fed the salmon swimming in it, and whatever number of nuts any of them swallowed, so many bright spots appeared on its body ...

'Nuts' at summer solstice were swallowed by forked trees, while 'nuts' at winter solstice were swallowed by fish. Trees mean 'up' and fishes 'down'.

Mago, the shark, is a kind of fish and Metoro said mago at the type of glyph represented by Ka4-14:


Ka4-14	Kb1-5	Kb2-4	Kb3-7	Kb4-12
21	42	*63	*84	*105
6	15	18	23	29

I remember the fish with a very long snout:

... The dream soul went on and came to Tama. She named the place 'Tama', an evil fish (he ika kino) with a very long nose (he ihu roroa) ...

... Station no. 13 is Tama, the evil fish with a very long snout, and exceptional among the names of the stations of the journey of the dream soul as it has no reference to A Hau Maka O Hiva. This sign possibly means that station no. 13 belongs to the moon (night), or at least that the 'ownership' is disputable. And fishes should not walk on dry land ...

*Stations of the dream soul of Hau Maka:*	My associations:
11 Hatinga Te Kohe	Daybreak: one period ends and another starts.
12 Roto Ire Are	'Rosy fingers' on the surface of the sea.
13 Tama	2nd part of twilight time. A shark should not walk on land, i.e. this station belongs to the 'sea' (darkness, Moon) and there is no henua.
14 One Tea	White sand: the ground is bathing in light, the 'wooden sword' (henua) of the sun now clearly rules.
15 Hanga Takaure	Prolific, i.e. increasing, is the sun and by 'eating' he grows.
16 Poike	High in the sky the sun now moves.
17 (Mauga) Pua Katiki	'Noon': sun reaches its maximum. Female (a.m.) side of exact middle of the day. The yellow 'halo' (katiki) surround the fully grown pillar of the sun.

Furthermore, there may be a connection with the youngest son of Hotu Matua:

... The fourth child entered. Matua kissed him on both cheeks and asked, 'Who are you?' He answered, 'It is I, the last-born (hangu potu), Te Mata O Tuu Hotu Iti.' The king was glad and said, 'You are a very strong child (poki hiohio), oh last-born, I wish you luck! Swift (?) is the great shark of Motu Toremo Hiva, of the homeland!' That was the end of King Hotu A Matua's speech to his children ...

Aa6-70 is the only mago glyph in Tahua in which the 'snout' is formed like a closed cycle (maybe therefore called 'a verly long snout'):

						Aa6-55 presumably marks the end of the 1st 'year'.
Aa6-50	Aa6-51	Aa6-52	Aa6-53	Aa6-54	Aa6-55	Aa6-55 presumably marks the end of the 1st 'year'.

Aa6-56	Aa6-57	Aa6-58	Aa6-59	Aa6-60	Aa6-61	Aa6-62

Aa6-63	Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69

Aa6-70	Aa6-71	Aa6-72	Aa6-73	Aa6-74	Aa6-75	Aa6-76

Aa6-77	Aa6-78	Aa6-79	Aa6-80	Aa6-81	Aa6-82	Aa6-83

The two glyphs immediately before Aa6-50, Aa5-48--49, seem to indicate a point of reversal (a 'mirror'):


Aa6-48	Aa6-49

Aa6-84 together with Aa7-1, immediately beyond the glyphs in the table above, similarly seem to indicate another change of season (or subject):


Aa6-84	Aa7-1

84 as ordinal number for the last glyph in line a6 maybe alludes to 4 * 21 = 3 * 28. Sun (4) is having a T (as in Time) party with moon (3).

If we add Aa6-49 and Aa6-84 to the glyphs in the table, we will have 36 glyphs, and we then can try to arrange the glyphs in a more meaningful pattern:


Aa6-49	Aa6-50	Aa6-51	Aa6-52	Aa6-53	Aa6-54
1	2	3	4	5	6
			*Ordinal number 63 = 3 21, cfr Kb2-4:**
Aa6-55	Aa6-56	Aa6-57
7	8	9

Aa6-58	Aa6-59	Aa6-60	Aa6-61	Aa6-62	Aa6-63
10	11	12	13	14	15

Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69
16	17	18	19	20	21
					Beyond Aa6-64 a new group begins.
Aa6-70	Aa6-71	Aa6-72	Aa6-73	Aa6-74
22	23	24	25	26
				A 2nd group with 10 glyphs begins with Aa6-75--76.
Aa6-75	Aa6-76	Aa6-77	Aa6-78
27	28	29	30

Aa6-79	Aa6-80	Aa6-81	Aa6-82	Aa6-83	Aa6-84
31	32	33	34	35	36

As usual the structure is ambivalent. The 'mouth' at Aa6-63 arrives inside the 1st half (which ends with the very curious Aa6-66), while in K number 63 is ready to be 'swallowed' in autumn. Maybe the Milky Way (Go'e) is spewing up the half-cooked turtle? In Aa6-67 (on the other side of a possible 'mirror') I guess the motive is a fish being swallowed by a variant of hoea (instrument for tattooing). The fish has its head up (meaning waxing or living), but its head is already gone:


Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69
ko te vai hopu o te moa	e he goe* kua moe*	ki to vaha* o to ika mea*	o te maitaki	kua noho te ariki

Aa6-70	Aa6-71	Aa6-72	Aa6-73	Aa6-74
e mago	e moa te ika hagai i te ariki	o to ua	ko te kai hagai o te ariki	ma to ua

The mago at Aa6-70 is located as number 22, which I suspect should be corrected to 21; the old bird in Aa6-64 presumably ought to be discounted:


Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66	Aa6-67	Aa6-68	Aa6-69
0	1	2	3	4	5
					Beyond Aa6-64 a new group begins.
Aa6-70	Aa6-71	Aa6-72	Aa6-73	Aa6-74
6	7	8	9	10
				A 2nd group with 10 glyphs begins with Aa6-75--76.
Aa6-75	Aa6-76	Aa6-77	Aa6-78
11	12	13	14

Aa6-79	Aa6-80	Aa6-81	Aa6-82	Aa6-83	Aa6-84
15	16	17	18	19	20

Aa6-70 is thereby being numbered 6 (as the sun should be). The fish (9) in Aa6-73 seems to be death-marked by the moon sign. The fish (15) in Aa6-79 is hanging with its head down ('dead'). Feathers (as in haú) in number 16 seem to affirm the reading. In Aa6-81 the canoe with the 'dead' in the middle is leaving and at 18 'autumn' seems to begin.

Although much may be false in this interpretation there certainly will be enough left not to discard the ideas. It is possible to use these 36 glyphs as a fertile ground for further investigations, for instance: there are 6 downward sloping inside marks in Aa6-78.

The 'eating mouth' (vaha kai) in Aa6-63 maybe illustrates how the first half of the cycle is being devoured by time. Next vaha kai in the Tahua text appears as Aa8-42 (and we note the congruence 2 *21 to be compared with 3 *21):


Aa8-38	Aa8-39	Aa8-40	Aa8-41	Aa8-42	Aa8-43	Aa8-44
						The fat hanau glyphs were seen as moko by Metoro.
Aa8-45	Aa8-46	Aa8-47	Aa8-48	Aa8-49	Aa8-50	The fat hanau glyphs were seen as moko by Metoro.
				Jaussen: "A une certaine saison, on amassait des vivres, on faissait fête. On emmaillottait un corail, pierre de defunt lézard, on l'enterrait, tanu. Cette cérémonie était un point de départ pour beaucoup d'affaires, notamment de vacances pour le chant des tablettes ou de la prière, tanu i te tau moko o tana pure, enterrer la pierre sépulcrale du lézard de sa prière."
Aa8-51	Aa8-52	Aa8-53	Aa8-54