TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

This is the 13th and last (extracalendrical) period of the year:


Aa1-13	Aa1-14	Aa1-15
kua tuu	marai	i tona ohoga - ki te ariki

Earlier, though, I wrote:

The sequence of glyphs for the 'calendar' for day and night in Tahua will begin on next page (Aa1-16 -- Aa1-48), but in H/P/Q the parallel glyphs appear as a 'calendar' for night and day (the opposite order) before the glyphs ... above.

This tells us that the glyphs above in some way probably belong to the 'calendar' for day and night (respectively to the 'calendar' for night and day).

Furthermore, as the order between day and night is opposite in H/P/Q to that in A both the glyphs in A above and those in P etc above are close to the glyphs for the day, not to the glyphs for the night. They are therefore probably associated with the day (and not with the night).

My position now is that the last conclusion in a way is correct: the glyphs are associated with the 'day'. However, they belong to the calendar of the year and with 'day' I now mean the general concept of light (and heat etc) from the sun.

In Tahua they are located at the end of the calendar for the year. Likewise - I believe - the calendar for the year in E has the corresponding glyphs in the last (24th) period:


Eb6-1	Eb6-2	Eb6-3

Time is circular and beyond the 24th period the 1st period of next year will arrive. Probably line number b6 'belongs' to the new year.

In the calendars for G and K the corresponding glyphs also arrive before the 1st period, but even more so because the 3 glyphs arrive immediately before the glyphs for the 1st period.

In the glyph dictionary I have written:

These 3 glyphs in period 'zero', before the regular calendar parts in G and K, correspond to glyphs located in the last (24th) period of E:

0				1
0	Ga2-24	Ga2-25	Ga2-26	1	Ga2-27	Ga2-28
0				1
0	Ka3-12	Ka3-13	Ka3-14	1	Ka3-15	Ka3-16
24				24
24	Eb6-1	Eb6-2	Eb6-3	24	Eb6-4	Eb6-5
The first 6 periods in E correspond to the 1st quarter.				7
The first 6 periods in E correspond to the 1st quarter.				7	Eb3-20	Eb3-21

I guess the glyph type exemplified by Eb6-3 is expressing how new light is generated. The 3 bent 'fingers' are oriented forwards, 'handing over' the new 'fire'.

In H/P/Q the corresponding glyphs are not associated with the immediately preceding 'calendar' for night and day but they initiate the sequence of glyphs which follow and which begins like this:

								8
Ha6-106	Ha6-107	Ha6-108	Ha6-109	Ha6-110	Ha6-111	Ha6-112	Ha6-113
*Ha6-30	*Ha6-31	*Ha6-32	*Ha6-33	*Ha6-34	*Ha6-35	*Ha6-36	*Ha6-37
								6
Pa5-73			Pa5-74	Pa5-75	Pa5-76	Pa5-77	Pa5-78	6
No parallel in Q. From Pa5-79 / Ha6-114 the Q text appears again with Qa6-1.
								8
Aa1-49	Aa1-50	Aa1-51	Aa1-52	Aa1-53	Aa1-54	Aa1-55	Aa1-56	8

In Tahua the night part of the day and night 'calendar' ends with Aa1-48. The absence of parallel glyphs in Q covers also the text arriving earlier:

...	...	...						8 (?)
			Ha6-101	Ha6-102	Ha6-103	Ha6-104	Ha6-105
			*Ha6-25	*Ha6-26	*Ha6-27	*Ha6-28	*Ha6-29
								6
Pa5-67	Pa5-68		Pa5-69	Pa5-70	Pa5-71	Pa5-72
This sequence of glyphs does not appear in Q
			-	-				3???
Aa1-13	Aa1-14				Aa1-15

Summing up the number of glyphs of this sequence, we presumably have to conclude that Aa1-15 is to be counted as 2:

H	8 (?)	8	16 (?)
P	6	6	12
Q	-
A	'4'	8	'12'

'4' and '12 here means that the real number of glyphs is different (3 respectively 11). 362 + 3 = 365 is not enough, therefore the suggestion of more than 2 glyphs.