Moko is evidently responsible for 'reincarnating' the 'spirit' of the previous spring, after Mars has disposed of the intruder (his 'tanist') who took his place as 'star' in the top of the Tree. ... The divine names Bran, Saturn, Cronos ... are applied to the ghost of Hercules that floats off in the alder-wood boat after his midsummer sacrifice. His tanist, or other self, appearing in Greek legend as Poeas who lighted Hercules' pyre and inherited his arrows, succeeds him for the second half of the year; having acquired royal virtue by marriage with the queen, the representative of the White Goddess, and by eating some royal part of the dead man's body - heart, shoulder or thigh-flesh. He is in turn succeeded by the New Year Hercules, a reincarnation of the murdered man, who beheads him and, apparently, eats his head. This alternate eucharistic sacrifice made royalty continous, each king in turn the Sun-god beloved of the reigning Moon-goddess. But when these cannibalistic rites were abandoned and the system was gradually modified until a single king reigned for a term of years, Saturn-Cronos-Bran became a mere Old Year ghost, permanently overthrown by Juppiter-Zeus-Belin though yearly conjured up for placation at the Saturnalia or Yule feast ... This once in a year occurrence explains why in G there is only one glyph line with moko glyphs:
The major structure of the G text is determined by the 'conjunction' of 8 lunar months and the duration of Venus as morning star and it has no room for the midwinter moko. Yet a kind of Sun cycle apparently is beginning at Ga3-6:
The 'eyes' in hanau moko (Gb3-13) are decisive - it cannot be pitch black. But glyph line Gb3 is where the takaure season is beginning:
When Sun has been turned into an 'insect' he will not be swallowed by moko at once, it will happen 4 months later, at winter solstice. Manu rere without eye in Gb3-14 could instead illustrate how Moon is 'reincarnated' (after having been in the background only) - she will presumably rule alone during the following 4 months (a quarter of 16 months). 10 * 29.5 indicates that the end of Sun's rule has been reached and his 'bamboo staff' has been broken (Hatinga Te Kohe). Escaping from his corporal form his takaure will rise to heaven and from inside the hollow bamboo Moon will come out: ... Several Asian cultures, including that of the Andaman Islands, believe that humanity emerged from a bamboo stem. In the Philippine creation myth, legend tells that the first man and the first woman were split open from a bamboo stem that emerged on an island created after the battle of the elemental forces (Sky and Ocean). In Malaysian legends a similar story includes a man who dreams of a beautiful woman while sleeping under a bamboo plant; he wakes up and breaks the bamboo stem, discovering the woman inside. The Japanese folktale 'Tale of the Bamboo Cutter' (Taketori Monogatari) tells of a princess from the Moon emerging from a shining bamboo section. Hawaiian bamboo ('ohe) is a kinolau or body form of the Polynesian creator god Kane ... |
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