| Ana 1. Cave. 2. If. 3. Verbal prefix: he-ra'e ana-unu au i te raau,
first I drank the medicine. Vanaga.
1. Cave, grotto, hole in the
rock. 2. In order that, if. 3. Particle (na 5); garo atu ana,
formerly; mee koe ana te ariki, the Lord be with thee. PS Sa.:
na, an intensive postpositive particle. Anake, unique. T
Pau.: anake, unique, to be alone. Mgv.: anake, alone,
single, only, solely. Mq.: anake, anaé, id. Ta.: anae,
all, each, alone, unique. Anakena, July. Ananake, common,
together, entire, entirely, at once, all, general, unanimous, universal,
without distinction, whole, a company; piri mai te tagata ananake,
public; kite aro o te mautagata ananake, public; mea ananake,
impartial; koona ananake, everywhere. Churchill.
Splendor; a name applied in the Society Islands to ten
conspicious stars which served as pillars of the sky. Ana appears
to be related to the Tuamotuan ngana-ia, 'the heavens'. Henry translates
ana as aster, star. The Tahitian conception of the sky as
resting on ten star pillars is unique and is doubtless connected with
their cosmos of ten heavens. The Hawaiians placed a pillar (kukulu)
at the four corners of the earth after Egyptian fashion; while the Maori
and Moriori considered a single great central pillar as sufficient to
hold up the heavens. It may be recalled that the Moriori Sky-propper
built up a single pillar by placing ten posts one on top of the other.
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