Bb5.1
Clearly we cannot make good sense of the rongorongo texts without
taking account of numbers, stars, myths, and our treasure of
common words. For instance did my recent discussion regarding
Carmenta make me realize why in the Swedish language
(tongue) the frame of a door is
dörr-karm.
... When Gwion writes in the Câd Goddeu,
'Stout Guardian of the door, His name in every tongue', he is
saying that doors are customarily made of oak as the strongest
and toughest wood and that 'Duir', the Beth-Luis-Nion name for
'Oak', means 'door' in many European languages including Old
Goidelic dorus, Latin foris, Greek thura,
and German tür, all derived from the Sanskrit Dwr,
and that Daleth, the Hebrew letter D, means 'Door' - the
'l' being originally an 'r' ...
The peculiar words vere and verega of Metoro might
have correspond to the one 'who looks both back and forward':
... Janus was perhaps not originally
double-headed: he may have borrowed this peculiarity from the
Goddess herself who at the Carmentalia, the Carmenta Festival in
early January, was addressed by her celebrants as 'Postvorta'
and 'Antevorta' - 'she who looks both back and forward' ...
Ga. Preposed plural marker of rare usage. 1. Sometimes
used with a few nouns denoting human beings, more often omitted.
Te ga vî'e, te ga poki, the women and the children. Ga
rauhiva twins. 2. Used with some proper names. Ga Vaka,
Alpha and Beta Centauri (lit. Canoes). Vanaga.
It would seem reasonable to conclude that
Postvorta corresponded to p.m. - after (post) noon - and
Antevorta to before (ante) noon
(a.m.). Looking back in the afternoon you will clearly see a.m.
...
For the Maori the past is an important and pervasive dimension
of the present and future. Often referred to as the
'ever-present now', Maori social reality is perceived as though
looking back in time from the past to the present. The Maori
word for 'the front of' is mua and this is used as a term
to describe the past, that is, Nga wa o mua or the time
in front of us. Likewise, the word for the back is muri
which is a term that is used for the future. Thus the past is in
front of us, it is known; the future is behind us, unknown. The
point of this is that our ancestors always had their backs to
the future with their eyes firmly on the past. Our past is not
conceived as something long ago and done with, known only as an
historical fact with no contemporary relevance or meaning. In
the words of a respected Maori elder: The present is a
combination of the ancestors and 'their living faces' or genetic
inheritors, that is the present generations. Our past is as much
the face of our present and future. They live in us ... we live
in them ...
Ga Kope
Tutuu Vai A Te Taaga meant the
3 islets outside the southwestern corner of Easter Island,
before the dreamsoul (kuhane)
arrived to the main land.
A vortex is where things mill around in the water while
going down in contrast to the very top at the vertex.
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Ba9-40 |
Bb3-29 |
Bb3-41 |
Bb4-2 |
Bb4-3 |
Bb4-23 |
ki te
verega o to kava |
kua haati ia
e kava |
mai tae
vere hia - ki te pito o te
henua |
ko te
vere - a uta |
ko te
vere - i te ragi - kua here
to maro |
kua
vere ki te henua |
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Bb4-24 |
Bb4-25 |
Bb5-10 |
Bb8-7 |
Bb8-30 |
Bb8-35 |
mai tae hua
tu ki te verega o te ragi |
kua hua ki te
verega o te maitaki |
mai tae te
vere ki te henua
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kua
vere ko te kava |
kava
vere ki te henua |
kua
vere koia ki te ohoga |
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Ea1-25 |
Ea1-26 |
Ea1-27 |
Ea2-27 |
Eb6-36 |
Eb7-39 |
Eb7-40 |
ko te
vere a uta - ko te
vere a tai kua
vere |
rere te toki
- rere ki te verega |
kua
vere te rima - Te henua |
tagata
vere - ma te hokohuki |
kua
vere koia - te hokohuki |
... Dante kept to the tradition of the
whirlpool as a significant end for great figures, even if here
it comes ordained by Providence. Ulysses has sailed in his 'mad
venture' beyond the limits of the world, and once he has crossed
the ocean he sees a mountain looming far away, 'hazy with the
distance, and so high I had never seen any.' It is the Mount of
Purgatory, forbidden to mortals. 'We
rejoiced, and soon it turned to tears, for from the new land a
whirl was born, which smote our ship from the side. Three times
it caused it to revolve with all the waters, on the forth to
lift is stern on high, and the prow to go down, as Someone
willed, until the sea had closed over us.' The 'many thoughted'
Ulysses is on his way to immortality, even if it has to be Hell.
The engulfing whirlpool belongs to the stock-in-trade of ancient
fable. It appears in the Odyssey as Charybdis in the straits of
Messina - and again, in other cultures, in the Indian Ocean and
in the Pacific. It is found there too, curiously enough, with
the overhanging fig tree to whose boughs the hero can cling as
the ship goes down, whether it be Satyavrata in India, or
Kae in Tonga ...
In Manuscript E we have an example of the opposite phenomenon,
viz. moving around
in the air while going up:
... Night came, midnight came, and Tuu
Maheke said to his brother, the last-born: 'You go and
sleep. It is up to me to watch over the father.' (He said) the
same to the second, the third, and the last.
When all had left, when all the brothers were
asleep, Tuu Maheke came and cut off the head of Hotu A
Matua. Then he covered
everything with soil. He hid (the head), took it, and went up.
When he was inland, he put (the head) down at Te Avaava Maea.
Another day dawned, and the men saw a dense swarm of flies pour
forth and spread out like a whirlwind (ure tiatia moana)
until it disappeared into the sky.
Tuu Maheke understood. He went up
and took the head, which was already stinking in the hole in
which it had been hidden. He took it and washed it with fresh
water. When it was clean, he took it and hid it anew. Another
day came, and again Tuu Maheke came and saw that it was
completely dried out (pakapaka). He took it, went away,
and washed it with fresh water until (the head) was completely
clean. Then he took it and painted it yellow (he pua hai pua
renga) and wound a strip of barkcloth (nua) around
it.
He took
it and hid it in the hole of a stone that was exactly the size
of the head. He put it there, closed up the stone (from the
outside), and left it there. There it stayed
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However this difference in perspective should not bother us too
much because people living south of the equator could follow
the path of the Full Moon among the stars instead of
deliberating where the Sun currently was in the Gregorian calendar.
... You are the one who shall stay here. We,
on the other hand, have to turn around. Makoi replied,
All right with me! Then Ira continued to speak to
Makoi: Tomorrow, when it grows light, set out and name the
places beginning with Apina. Makoi replied, How
shall I give the names? Again Ira spoke, In Hiva
are the names that are to be taken to name (the places of the
new land). It grew light and Makoi got up. He set out and
came to Apina. When he arrived there, he gave the name
This is Apina Iti, this is Rapa Kura. He went on and came to
Hanga O Ua. He gave the name This is Hanga O Ua of the
Beautiful Wave (vave renga). Makoi went on,
giving names, until he had made a (complete) circle around both
sides (of the island). In Apina Nui a
stone
(maea) was erected, saying that the naming was done on a
(round) trip during a single day ...
Presumably this single day corresponded to
day 365.
... Another name for Mercury was Hermes and
Hermes Trismegisthos (thrice-mighty) could have referred
to the fact that there were 3.141 * 115.88 = 364.0 days for the
cycle of the Earth around the Sun. Although the calendar has 365
days for a year this is due to the fact that the Earth has to
turn around an extra day in order to compensate for how the
direction to the Sun changes during a year ...
Dec
31 |
Jan 1 (366) |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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Bb4-34 (155) |
Bb4-35 (366 - 210) |
Bb4-36 |
Bb4-37 |
Bb4-38 (20 * 29) |
te ika vaha mea kua mau - i to
maro |
e ika e
vaha mea |
kua hakaroa |
ki te tagata haga i tona ohoga |
te inoino - ma te hoi atu |
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τ
Puppis (102.2),
ψ7
Aurigae (102.4)
*61.0 = *102.4 - *41.4 |
Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins
of the Shepherd)
θ
Gemini (103.0),
ψ8
Aurigae (103.2),
ALHENA =
γ
Gemini
(103.8),
ψ9
Aurigae (103.9) |
ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris
(104.8) |
ω
Gemini (105.4),
ALZIRR
(Button) =
ξ
Gemini
(105.7),
MULIPHEIN (Oaths) =
γ
Canis Majoris
(105.8),
MEKBUDA (Contracted) =
ζ
Gemini
(105.9)
*64.0 = *105.4 - *41.4 |
7h
(106.5)
No star listed (106) |
"May 21 (141) |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25
(145 = 290 / 2) |
Jan 5 (370) |
6 (161 + 210) |
7 |
8 |
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Bb4-39 |
Bb4-40 (161) |
Bb4-41 |
Bb4-42 (584) |
SYNODIC CIRCUIT OF
VENUS |
Black |
8 |
Morning Star |
263 |
Black |
50 |
Evening Star |
263 |
Sum |
584 |
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ko te moa |
ma te kotokotoga |
ko te hau tea |
kua hakaroa |
The
Rapanui word tokotoko means pole or
staff. Sacred ceremonial staves, such as the
ua on Rapa Nui, were called toko
in Polynesia.
Tokotoko, stick,
cane, crutches, axe helve, roller, pole, staff.
P Pau.:
tokotoko, walking
stick. Mgv.:
toko,
a pole, stilts, staff. Mq.:
tokotoko,
toótoó,
stick, cane, staff. Ta.:
too,
id. Churchill. |
WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris
(107.1),
τ
Gemini (107.7),
δ
Monocerotis (107.9) |
No star listed (108) |
λ
Gemini (109.4),
WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini
(109.8)
*68.0 = *109.4 - *41.4 |
No star listed (110) |
... About
Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus
Periergetis that she gave oracles to Hercules
and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a
canonical number, the ideal age which every
Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which,
for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110
years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan
lustra of five years each; and 110 years
composed the 'cycle' taken over from the
Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each
cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar
calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games
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July 6 |
7 (188) |
8 |
9 |
'June 9 |
10 (161) |
11 |
12 |
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the
oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph,
and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning
flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep
underground as its branches rise in the air -
Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic
of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in
the Underworld ... The month, which takes its
name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June
10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St.
John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the
oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The
Celtic year was divided into two halves with the
second half beginning in July, apparently after
a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the
oak-king's honour ... |
"May 26 |
27 |
28 (148) |
29 |
MAY 3 |
4 |
5 (125) |
6 |
The beginning of line Bb5 should therefore correspond to the
beginning of the season when Venus was visible as Morning Star
→ on her way up like the Sun.
Jan
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13
(378 → Saturn) |
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Bb5-2 |
Bb5-3 (166) |
Bb5-4 |
Bb5-5 (589) |
Ki te manu gutu roaroa |
kua hahata ia te vaha ona |
mai tae tanu
hia te
tau moko |
e manu rere |
ki te mauga |
Tanu. To cover something in the ground
with stones or soil; to bury a corpse; tanu kopú,
to bury completely; this expression is mostly
used figuratively: ka-tanu kopú te vânaga tuai
era, ina ekó mana'u hakaou, forget those old
stories, don't think of them again. Vanaga. To bury,
to plant, to sow seed, to inter, to implant, to
conceal; tagata tanukai, farmer; tanuaga,
burial; tanuaga papaku, funeral; tanuga,
plantation; tanuhaga, funeral, tomb. P Pau.:
tanu, to cultivate. Mgv.: tanu, to
plant, to bury. Mq.: tanu, to plant, to sow.
Ta.: tanu, to plant, to sow, to bury.
Churchill.
Moko.
1. Lizard; moko manu uru,
figurine of a
lizard (made of wood). 2. To throw oneself on
something, to take quickly, to snatch; to flee into
the depths (of fish); tagata moko,
interloper, intruder, someone who seizes something
quickly and swiftly, or cleverly intrudes somewhere;
ka-moko ki te kai, ka-moko, ka-aaru, quickly
grab some food, grab and catch. 3. To throw oneself
upon someone, to attack: he-moko, he-reirei,
to attack and kick. 4. Moko roa: to make a
long line (of plantation); moko poto, to make
a short line. 5. Ihu moko; to die out (a
family of which remains only one male without sons);
koro hakamao te mate o te mahigo, he-toe e-tahi
tagata nó, ina aana hakaara, koîa te me'e e-kî-nei:
ku-moko-á te ihu o te mahigo. when the members
of family have died and there remains only one man
who has no offspring, we say: ku-moko-á te ihu o
te mahigo; to disappear (of a tradition, a
custom), me'e ihu moko o te tagata o te kaiga
nei, he êi, the êi is a custom no longer
in use among the people of this island. Vanaga. 1.
Lizard. P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: moko, id. Ta.
moó, id. 2. To stun, to be dizzy. PS Sa.:
mo'o, to be surprised. Hakamoko, to
accomplish. Mokohi, grain, full-grown berry (mokoi);
mokohi haraoa, grain. Mgv.: mokohe,
food. Mokoimokoi, heart T, kidney.
Mokomoko, sharp, pointed, slender, cape,
headland; gutu mokomoko, pointed lips.
Churchill. Mgv.: mokora, a duck. Ta.:
moora, id. Churchill. ... A
une certaine saison, on amassait des vivres, on
faisait fête On emmaillotait un corail, pierre de
défunt lezard, on l'enterrait, tanu. Cette
cérémonie était un point de départ pour beacoup
d'affaires, notamment de vacances pour le chant des
tablettes ou de la priére, tanu i te tau moko o
tana pure, enterrer la pierre sépulcrale de
lézard de sa prière ...
Maúga. 1. Last; aga maúga
o te Ariki o Hotu Matu'a, King Hotu Matua's last
work. 2. Hill, mountain. Mouga, moúga. Last;
vânaga moúga o te Ariki O Hotu Matu'a, the
last words of King Hotu Matu'a. Vanaga. Mauga
kore, impalpable. Mouga. 1. Enough,
that's all, at last. 2. Mountain, ridge of hills;
mouga iti, hillock; tua mouga, mountain
top; hiriga mouga; hillside, declivity,
slope. P Pau.: mahuga, mountain. Mgv.: mou,
maga, mountain. Mq.: mouna, mouka,
peak or crest of a mountain. Ta.: maua,
moua, mountain. 3. Extinction, end,
interruption, solution; te mouga o te hiriga,
end of a voyage; pagaha mouga kore, without
consolation. 4. To get. Churchill. |
ALUDRA (Virgin) =
η
Canis Majoris
(111.1),
PROPUS = ι
Gemini (111.4),
GOMEISA (Water-eyed) = β Canis Minoris
(111.6)
*70.0 = *111.4 - *41.4 |
ρ Gemini
(112.1),
Eskimo
Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini
(112.2)
ANTARES (α Scorpii) |
Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm)
/
Punarvasu-7 (The Two Restorers
of Goods) /
Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western
One of the Twins)
CASTOR (Beaver) = α Gemini (113.4)
*113.4 = *41.4 + *72.0 |
ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for
Elocution)
υ Gemini (114.0),
MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis
(114.7), ο Gemini (114.8),
PROCYON = α Canis Minoris
(114.9) |
α
Monocerotis (115.4),
σ Gemini (115.7)
*74.0 = *115.4 - *41.4 |
... Originally
the highly born family of the Sun, Moon, and stars
dwelt in a cave on the summit of Maunga-nui,
Great Mountain, in the ancient homeland. They were
not at all comfortable in their gloomy home for they
could not see distinctly and their eyes watered
constantly. After the Sky-father had been elevated
to his present eminence Tane decided that the
celestial family would be happier in the sky, where
they would serve the double purpose of ornamenting
the naked body of Rangi and giving light to
the Earth-mother. Since Papa had already been
turned with her face toward the Underworld it is
difficult to see how she would benefit by the
illumination ... |
...Then the big Fish did swallow him, and
he had done acts worthy of blame. Had it not been that he
(repented and) glorified Allah, He would certainly have
remained inside the Fish till the Day of Resurrection. -
Qur'an, chapter 37 (As-Saaffat), verse 139–144. But We cast
him forth on the naked shore in a state of sickness, And We
caused to grow, over him, a spreading plant of the gourd
kind. And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand
(men) or more. And they believed; so We permitted them to
enjoy (their life) for a while. - Qur'an, chapter 37
(As-Saaffat), verse 145–148 ...
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