The SITUATION
Tally Maker, the stanza maker probably was located in the "Pleasant Land," which may have been on the South Dakota side of Travois Gap. He started the fourth chapter of the Maalan Aarum with the Long Ago stanza, which located his ancestors at James Bay.
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This was the era when water everywhere, except the open water marvels and streams on land, which ran under the ice, was frozen. James Bay has 21 rivers flowing into it. So the warmer water from the land flowed in under the ice, causing it to open up sooner. Also James Bay has several large rocky islands which would have caught the sun's rays. There may have been open water between the shores and the ice.
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| James Bay covered with ice. |
Whales may have surfaced in that open water to get air. So the Lenape may have been able to harvest whales even if the major surface of Hudson Bay was frozen.
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The land on the west side of James Bay is the world's largest nesting area for geese. The geese fly in from the south, lay their eggs in the nesting area, and teach their young to fly near James Bay. So, again, the food literally came to the Lenape.
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The Lenape not only survived. They increased in numbers.
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DECIPHERMENT DETAILS
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The Geese and Whales is the first stanza, where Craig Judge and I finally got the documentation for the deciphering process firm. I have left Craig's documents untouched so vettors can see that two men, Craig and I, could do the same process and get reasonable decipherments.
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The fact is that near the end of Craig's deciphering time, he was finding better Lenape words in the Viking and Red Man. The "shore" is one example.
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I had made an incorrect assumption. I thought "sid" was "sik" the reflective pronoun. I was not getting a good decipherment using my assumption. Craig's persistence to find the best Lenape words resulted in finding all the correct Lenape words, but especially the "shore" word.
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The decipherment post is all Craig's effort, except I have added the links to the Viking and the Red Man pages.
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In this case the Lenape syllables appear to have a higher Drottkvaett score that the Old Norse.
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I looked at the Old Norse Drottkvaett. I think the Drottkvaett format would imply that the "Wemimik" word should be located at the start of the second line. Sometime after the stanza was made somebody may have moved "Wemimik" to the end of the stanza were it made more logical sense. When "Wemimik" is moved to the start of the second line, the Old Norse Drottkvaett score is higher.
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ABOUT the PICTOGRAPH
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The pictograph provides the cues for the stanza teller to remember the stanza. Put sometimes the pictograph is hard to decipher too.
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Why do the words say Geese and the picture looks like, maybe, a sea gull.
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Perhaps one reason may be that Tally Maker, the stanza maker may have been located in the pleasant land, eastern South Dakota. I grew up in eastern South Dakota and can testify that South Dakota is fly over land. Rarely does a man see a goose on the ground. But there are seagulls all around. They sort of look like geese in the air. I suggest that Tally Maker drew the bird that stood still for him on the ground.
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What is that little circle with the hair?
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The hair is the "poo," the spouting of a whale. The small circle does not use all of the pictograph space. But the round body with the "poo" is an indication of a whale to a stanza maker that never saw a whale.
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[This is a small digression. In the 1600s the French were impressing a tribe of Americans by describing there voyage to America. During the voyage they saw whales.
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A sachem of the Americans stood to talk. He said "Ne Kikke poo," meaning "I too have seen the 'poo' of the whale." The Kickapoo tribe is shown on the maps at the west end of Lake Erie, near where the "Paw Paw" name for the Irish monks is still found.]
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What is the line that goes up over the bird?
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Naturally, it may the cue for increasing. We did not understand the pictograph until we deciphered the Lenape words. Then the pictograph made sense.
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