5. The door of entrance into this world is also the door of exit. Spatially seen they are different though, with birth occurring in the east and death in the west. Temporally they are connected because the life of children depends on the death of their parents - Ulu gave his life to Mokuola. With twin children there should be twin parents, which correspond to the 1st (divine) and 2nd (mortal) toa glyphs around the midnight henua:
Metoro regarded them as being different. We should notice that Hawaiian ulu corresponds to Easter Island uru. The Y-sign can now be understood as referring to the dead twin parents. From them new twigs will sprout:
"For the best-documented esoteric meaning of the Y-shape we must look to Mangareva, where 'forked stick' wands and 'stick man' effigies called eketea were used in mortuary, fertility and initiation rituals conducted by priests (taura) at which rogorogo and wood craftsmen participated. These interesting objects were highly abstract depictions of the human form which had legs and feet indicated and carved decorative bands around the midpoint. One example has oval 'eyes' carved on each of the two parallel parts forming the upright forks. In Mangaia, the forms of the 'forked sticks' erected on marae during the initiation of the Temporal Lord are not known. It is very clear however, that erecting these 'forked sticks' represented the visible commitment of the individual district chiefs to act as toko (prop or support) to the Temporal Lord as he undertook his duties." (Van Tilburg) |
