16 days before vero at Cor Caroli (the Liver of the Lion)
we can see how exactly
the same vero was used at the Thigh (γ)
of Ursa Major. Also here (cfr *JANUARY 23 - where its day number
365 + 23 = 388 corresponded to 4 less than the number of glyphs
on side a of the tablet) Metoro invited Bishop Jaussen to count (vero
hia):
... Another name for
the Goddess of the Mill was Artemis Calliste, or Callisto ('Most
Beautiful'), to whom the she-bear was sacred in Arcadia; and in
Athens at the festival of Artemis Brauronia, a girl of ten years
old and a girl of five, dressed in saffron-yellow robes in
honour of the moon, played the part of sacred bears. The Great
She-bear and Little She-bear are still the names of the two
constellations that turn the mill around. In Greek the Great
Bear Callisto was also called Helice, which means both
'that which turns' and 'willow-branch' - a reminder that the
willow was sacred to the same Goddess ...
*JULY
7 (256 - 68) |
8 |
9
(*110 = *174 - 64) |
10
(*111 = *179 - 68) |
11 |
11 |
September 13 (256) |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17
(*180) |
'August 17 |
18 (*150) |
19 |
20 |
21
(233) |
"August 3 |
4 (*136) |
5 |
6 |
7
(219) |
ο Hydrae (176.1) |
ζ Crateris,
ξ Virginis (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν
Virginis (177.2), μ Muscae (177.8) |
Al Sarfah-10 /
Uttara Phalguni-12 /
Zibbat A.-16
(Tail of the Lion) / Shēpu-arkū sha-A-17
(Hind Leg of the Lion)
93 Leonis (178.0),
DENEBOLA
= β Leonis
(178.3),
ALARAPH = β
Virginis (178.6) |
PHEKDA (Thigh)
= γ Ursae Majoris, β Hydrae (179.3), η Crateris
(179.9)
DENEB CYGNI (α
Cygni)
|
no star listed (180) |
|
|
|
|
|
Ca13-16 |
Ca13-17 (360) |
Ca13-18 |
Ca13-19 (4 + 358) |
Ca13-20 |
oho te vae |
tagata puoko erua |
tagata puo pouo |
vero hia |
- |
March 14 (3-14, 73) |
15
(*360) |
16
(441) |
17 |
18 |
°March 10 |
11 |
12
(71 = 441 - 370) |
13
(72) |
3-14
(*359) |
'February 15 |
16 |
17 |
18 (*335) |
19
(50) |
"February 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (*321) |
5
(36) |
λ Piscium (358.0),
MANUS
CATENATA
= ι Andromedae (358.1),
ALRAI
= γ
Cephei, θ Phoenicis (358.4), κ Andromedae
(358.7) |
ω
Aquarii (359.2), 78 Pegasi (359.5) |
ψ
Andromedae (360.1), σ Phoenicis (360.4) |
γ¹
Oct. (361.4), φ Pegasi (361.7) |
DZANEB
= ω
Piscium (362.4), γ² Oct. (362.8) |
*JANUARY 6 |
7 |
8
(373 = 441 - 68) |
9 (378 - 4) |
10
(439 - 64 = 375) |
... Ishtar, scorned, goes up to heaven in a rage, and
extracts from Anu the promise that he will send down the
Bull of Heaven to avenge her. The Bull descends, awesome
to behold. With his first snort he downs a hundred
warriors. But the two heroes tackle him. Enkidu takes
hold of him by the tail, so that Gilgamesh as espada
can come in between the horns for the kill. The artisans
of the town admire the size of those horns: 'thirty
pounds was their content of lapis lazuli'. (Lapis lazuli
is the color sacred to Styx, as we have seen. In Mexico
it is turquoise.) Ishtar appears on the walls of Uruk
and curses the two heroes who have shamed her, but
Enkidu tears out the right thigh of the Bull of Heaven
and flings it in her face, amidst brutal taunts. It
seems to be part of established procedure in those
circles. Susanowo did the same to the sun-goddess
Amaterasu, and so did Odin the Wild Hunter to the man
who stymied him
...
*JULY 23 (204) |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (*128 = *196 - 68) |
28 |
September 29 (272) |
30 (*193) |
October 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
'September 2 (245) |
3 |
4 |
5 (*168) |
6 |
7 |
"August 19 (231) |
20 |
21 |
22 (*154) |
23 |
24 |
ι Crucis
(192.2), β Muscae (192.5),
MIMOSA
= β Crucis (192.9) |
no star
listed (193) |
κ Crucis
(194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ
Crucis (194.6),
ALIOTH (Fat Tail)
= ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8) |
MINELAUVA
= δ Virginis (195.1),
COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven.
(195.3) |
δ Muscae
(196.5),
VINDEMIATRIX (Grape Gatherer)
= ε Virginis
(196.8) |
13h (197.8)
ξ¹
Centauri (197.1), ξ² Centauri (197.9) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
*Ca14-12 |
*Ca14-13 |
*Ca14-14 |
*Ca14-15 (378) |
*Ca14-16 |
*Ca14-17 |
te kihikihi |
o te henua - kua haga
hia |
kua pua |
te vero |
te henua |
kiore - te henua |
March 30 |
31 |
April 1 |
2 (92 = *378 - 366 + 80) |
3 |
4 |
'March 3 |
4 |
5 (*350) |
6 (65) |
7 |
8 |
"February 17 |
18 |
19 (*336) |
20 (51) |
21 |
22 |
ξ Phoenicis (9.0),
ρ Tucanae (9.1),
DENEB KAITOS
= β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4),
AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls)
= φ¹ Ceti (9.6) |
ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays)
= η Cassiopeiae (10.7) |
Legs-15
ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ
Phoenicis (11.2),
η ANDROMEDAE
(11.4) |
CIH (Whip)
= γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³
Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8) |
φ4 Ceti (13.2) |
no star listed (14) |
*JANUARY 22 |
(388
= 392 - 4) |
24 |
25 (14 * 15
+ 180) |
26 |
27 |
|
15 |
|
Ca13-19 (362) |
*Ca14-15 (378) |
vero hia |
te vero |
In *JULY 7 the Great Bear had her left back leg
(vae) uplifted as if ready to go - the Jupiter
month was finished and it was in the middle (vaega)
of the year. Maybe she had lifted her leg in order to make
place for a little one, for Leo Minor.
Vae
Va'e: Foot, leg; te
va'e mata'u, te va'e maúi, right foot, left
foot. Va'e ruga, va'e raro, quick and
light, without detour (lit.: foot up, foot
down). Ka-oho koe ki a nua era va'e ruga va'e
raro, ina ekó hipa-hipa, hurry straight to
your mother, do not make any detours. Va'e
pau, misshapen foot, clubfoot. Vae,
to choose. Vaega, middle, centre; i
vaega o, in the middle of. Vanaga.
1. Foot, paw, leg, limb;
vae no roto, drawers; karikari vae,
ankle. P Pau.: vaevae, foot, leg. Mgv.:
vaevae, id. Mq.: vae, id. Ta.:
vaevae, avae, id. 2. Pupil. 3. To
choose, elect, prefer, promote, vote; vavae,
to destine, to choose; vaea (vae
2), pupil. Vaeahatu (vae 1 -
ahatu): moe vaeahatu, to sleep
sprawling with legs extended. Vaega,
center, middle, within, half; o vaega,
younger; ki vaega, among, between,
intermediate. P Pau.: vaega, the middle.
Mgv.: vaega, center, middle. Mq.:
vaena, vavena, vaveha, id.
Ta.: vaehaa, half. Vaehakaroa (vae
1 - roa): moe vaehakaroa, to sleep
with legs stretched out. Vaehau (vae
1 - hau 3), pantaloons, trousers.
Vaeherehere (vae 1 - here 1),
to attach by the paw. Vaerere (vae
1 - rere 1), to run. Churchill.
Ta.: 1. Timbers of a boat.
Ha.: wae, knees, side timbers of a boat.
2. To share out. Sa.: vae, to divide, to
share. Ma.: wawae, to divide. Churchill. |
... 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 ...
These dates, for instance July 7, was
determined, it seems, only from where the Sun reached
his apex (his Liver). Therefore the same date should be
used for such an event at all times, also at the star date
at the time of the Bull. However, 16 days was the
minimum distance before a star would return into
visibility
after a conjunction with the Sun and therefore we can
guess Metoro meant we should count 16 glyphs ahead from
the midnight culmination of the Tail of the Swan (Deneb
Cygni) - which had been in full view at the opposite side of
the sky when the Left Thigh of the Great Bear was at the
Sun.'
... we should remember the distribution
of the rakau glyphs. All 6 of them are probably
belonging on the front side of the text, which might
mean we should not end counting heliacally until we at
least have reached Cb1-6 - as if alluding to 16 and
the minimum number of nights before a star reappeared
again after having risen together with the blinding Sun
...
But also the
conjunction between Denebola in Leo and Alaraph in
Virgo, followed by the Left Thigh of the Great Bear, motivated a vero hia
here - where in a way the dry (maro) Mother Earth
would
receive the fertilizing rain from Father Sky. Metoro
evidently used hia as a technical term for
his instruction Count!
...
Ta'aroa
sat in his heaven above the earth and conjured forth
gods with his words. When he shook off his red and
yellow feathers they drifted down and became trees. He
created the first parents, Tumu-nui, Great
Foundation, to be the husband, and Paparaharaha,
Stratum Rock, to be the wife. He put the very essence of
himself into their creation; yet when he commanded them
to wed, each refused to go to the other. So Ta'aroa
created other gods and Atea, Bright Expanse, the
Sky-goddess, who dwelt in darkness in the confined sky
Rumia.
By
Papa-tuoi, Thin Earth, Atea was the mother of
children who became artisans for Rai-tupua-nui,
Great-Sky-builder. They assisted him in erecting the ten
heavens above the earth. In the highest of these dwelt
the god Tane, so it was called the
Sky-of-the-sacred-omens of Tane and
Sky-of-the-water-of-life of Tane. The next
highest heaven was called Hiro's Sky-of-prophets.
Atea
then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of
Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the
celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the
Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of
stars and constellations, and finally the bright and
dark nebulae.
When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea
took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful.
Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had
wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but
certain it is that Atea and her husband
Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of
Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu
and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who
explored the whole earth and divided it into north,
south, east, and west
...
... The
canoes of Ava Rei Pua and of Hotu were
seen near the (off-shore) islets. On the fifteenth day
of the month of October (tangaroa uri) the
canoe of Hotu and the canoe of Ava Rei Pua
landed.
On the
fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa
uri), Nonoma left the house during the
night to urinate outside.
At this point
Ira called out to Nonoma, 'Look at the
canoe!' Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te
Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater
Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double
canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two
(hulls of the canoe) were lashed together. He ran and
returned to the front of the house. He arrived and
called into the house: 'Hey you! This canoe has arrived
during the night without our noticing it!'
Ira
asked Nonoma, 'Where is the canoe, which you say
is lying out there (in the water)?' Nonoma's
voice came back: 'It is out there (in the water) close
to the (offshore) islets! There it lies, and the two
(hulls) are lashed together.'
The four of
them (corrected for 'the six of them') went out and
picked up leaves (on branches) to give signals. They
picked them up, went and arrived at Te Hikinga
and saw the canoe. Raparenga got up, picked up
the leaves, took them in his hands, and waved, waved,
waved, waved ...
Uri
1. Dark; black-and-blue. 2.
Green; ki oti te toga, he-uri te maúku o te
kaiga, te kumara, te taro, te tahi hoki me'e,
once winter is over, the grasses grow green,
and the sweet potatoes, and the taro, and the
other plants. Uriuri, black; very dark.
Vanaga.
Uriuri, black, brown,
gray, dark, green, blue, violet (hurihuri).
Hakahurihuri, dark, obscurity, to darken.
P Pau.: uriuri, black. Mgv.: uriuri,
black, very dark, color of the deep sea, any
vivid color. Mq.: uiui, black, brown.
Ta.: uri, black. Churchill.
Uli, s. Haw., the blue
sky; adj., blue, cerulean, green; uli-uli,
verdure; adj., green, dark-coloured, black.
Sam., Tong., Fak., uli; Tah., uri,
blue-black, any dark colour. Fornander. |
The hulls were still
lashed together. They had not yet separated and the land
was not yet fruitful, not yet reborn. But Nonoma (Jupiter) had
urinated and then quickly ran to the ravine Te
Hikinga Heru, and then Raparenga
(Moon) had waved with her many green leaves (rau).
... This was
seen by the man who understood signals; he looked down
and called out the following to the king: 'They are
waving, they are signaling the following message: 'The
land is bad, the shoots growing out of the ground cannot
spread because the algae-like thicket is very long when
it is pulled out, when it is ripped out!' ...
Manavai
Hollow where rainwater
accumulates; anciently, small, round gardens,
preferably situated in low shady spots, where
the mahute tree was grown. Vanaga.
1. Brain. 2. Valley, ravine,
river, torrent, brook; manavai miro,
orchard, Mq.: manavai, valley, brook.
Ta.: anavai, river, brook. It scarcely
appears that these are fully coordinate. In
Tahiti anavai has a clear etymology,
ana meaning the bed of a stream. In Rapanui
and in the Marquesas mana most readily
associates with maga, as water in a
forked bed. Churchill. |
Heu
Offspring of parents from two
different tribes, person of mixed
descent, e.g. father Miru, mother
Tupahotu. Heuheu, body hair
(except genitals and armpits). Vanaga. 1.
Heheu; ivi heheu, the cachalot, bone
needle; hakaheu, spade, to shovel, to
grub up, to scratch the ground, to labor;
rava hakaheu, laborious, toilsome. 2.
Hakaheu, affair. Churchill.
M. Heu, to separate, to
pull asunder; the eaves of a house; heu,
a single hair; hau. to hew; heru,
to comb; huru, hair on the body; down;
feathers; maheu, scattered; maheuheu,
shrubs; mahuru, scrub; heuea, to
be separated. Text Centre. |
Hiki
To flex the knees lightly, as
used to do the youths of both sexes when, after
having stayed inside for a long period to get a
fair complexion, they showed themselves off in
dances called te hikiga haúga, parading
on a footpath of smooth stones, with their faces
painted, lightly flexing their knees with each
step. Vanaga.
Tail fin G (? hiku).
Churchill. Hiki kioe (Cyperus
vegetus), a plant whose roots were eaten during
times of famine and the stems of which were used
for medicinal purposes. Barthel 2.
Pau.: Hiki. 1. To
fondle. Mgv.: hiki, to dandle. Ta.:
hii, id. Mq.: hiki, id. 2. To flee.
Mq.: hiki, flight. Pau.: Fakahihiu,
to scare away, Ma.: whiu, to drive.
Churchill.
Mgv.: Hiki, to commence
or to finish mat weaving. Mq.: hiki, to
finish mat weaving. Churchill.
... The brothers of Maui sat trembling in the
middle of the canoe, fearing for their lives.
For now the water was frothing and heaving, and
great hot bubbles were coming up, and steam, and
Maui was chanting the incantation called Hiki,
which makes heavy weights light
... |
Rau
Rau
1. (Also: raupá) leaf of a plant, stem
and leaves. 2. Hundred: e tahi te rau, e rua
te rau, etc., 100, 200... Also seems to have
been used in the meaning of 'many'. Tu'u
henua rau, someone who has travelled to many
countries (such were called in the 19th century
natives who had travelled abroad, employed as
sailors). Compare with: tai raurau-á riki.
Vanaga.
Rau
hei. 1. Branch of mimosa. 2. Killed
enemy. 3. Hanged 'fish'. 'Branche
du mimosa (signe de mort), ennemie túe (poisson
suspendu)' according to Jaussen.
Barthel.
Ra'u
1. To take something without the owner's
permission; to seize something forcibly. 2.
Ra'u maahu, ancient expression, literally:
to appropriate the steam (maahu) of the
food just taken out of an earth oven. It refers
to intruders coming to help themselves
uninvited. Warriors off to a battle used to be
told: E ra'u maahu no koe, o pagaha'a!
meaning: 'Eat little, lest you be heavy (and
lose your agility).' Vanaga.
1. Sa.: la'u, to clear
off, to carry away; la'u mai, to
bring. Uvea: laku, to send, to throw
into. Ha.: laulau, a bundle, a bag; a
wrapper of a bundle, the netting in which food
is carried; lalau, to seize, to catch
hold of. 2. To.: lau, lalau,
lauji, to pinch with the fingers, to nip.
Ha.: lau, to feel after a thing; lalau,
to extend (as the hand), to seize, to catch hold
of. 3. Sa.: lau, a leaf; lalau, to
be in leaf; laulau, a food tray plaited
from a coconut leaf, to set out food on such a
tray or on a table. To.: lau, lou,
a leaf; laulau, a tray. Fu., Uvea,
Nuguria: lau, a leaf. Niuē:
lau,
a leaf; laulau,
a table. Ha.: lau,
a leaf; laulau,
the netting in which food is carried. Ma., Ta.,
Rarotonga, Rapanui, Paumotu, Nukuoro, Fotuna:
rau,
a leaf. Mgv.: rau,
rou,
id. Mq.: au,
ou,
id. Churchill 2.
Ta.:
rauhuru,
dry banana leaf. Mq.:
auhuu,
id. (To.: hulu,
leaves dry and dead.) Ha.:
lauhulu,
banana leaf. Churchill. |
Lau, s.
Haw., to feel for, spread out, expand, be broad,
numerous; s. leaf of a tree or plant,
expanse, place where people dwell, the end,
point; sc. extension of a thing; the number four
hundred; lau-kua, to scrape together, to
gather up from here and there confusedly;
lau-la, broad, wide, extension, width;
lau-na, so associate with, be friendly;
lau-oho (lit. 'leaves of the head'), the
hair.
Tong., lau,
low, spread out, be broad, exfoliate;
s. surface area; lau-mata, eyelash;
lo, a leaf; lo-gnutu, the lips
(lit. 'leaves of the mouth'). N. Zeal. and
Mang., rau, spread, expand; raku-raku,
to scratch, scrape.
Sam., lau,
leaf, thatch, lip, brim of a cup, breadth,
numeral hundred after the first hundred;
lau-a, to be in leaf, full-leafed;
laua-ai, a town, in opposition to the bush;
lau-ulu, the hair of the head;
launga-tasi, even, level; lau-lau, to
lay out, spread out food on a table; lau-tata,
a level place on a mountain or at its foot;
lau-le-anga, uneven; lau-talinga, the
lobe of the ear, a fungus; lau-tele,
large, wide, common, of people.
Tah., rau,
a leaf, a hundred; when counting by couples, two
hundred; many indefinitely; rau-rau, to
scratch. Fiji., lou, leaves for covering
an oven; longa, a mat, a bed for
planting; drau, a leaf; drau-drau,
leaves on which food is served up, also a
hundred.
Saparua., laun,
leaf. Mal., daun, id.; luwas,
broad, extended. Sunda., Rubak., id., Amboyna,
ai-low, id. Malg., rav, ravin,
leaf; ravin-tadign, lobe of the ear;
lava, long, high, indefinite expression of
extension; lava-lava, eternal;
lava-tangh, a spider.
The word lau,
in the sense of expanse, and hence 'the sea,
ocean', is not now used in the Polynesian
dialects. There remain, however, two compound
forms to indicate its former use in that sense:
lau-make, Haw., lit. the abating or
subsiding of water, i.e., drought; rau-mate,
Tah., to cease from rain, be fair weather;
rau-mate, N. Zeal., id., hence summer.
The other word is
koo-lau, Haw., kona-rau, N. Zeal.,
toe-rau, Tah., on the side of the great
ocean, the weather side of an island or group;
toa-lau, Sam., the north-east trade wind.
In Fiji, lau is the name of the windward
islands generally. In the Malay and pre-Malay
dialects that word in that sense still remains
under various forms: laut, lauti,
lautan, lauhaha, olat,
wolat, medi-laut, all signifying the
sea, on the same principle of derivation as the
Latin æquor,
flat, level, expanse, the sea.
Welsh, llav,
to expand; lled, breadth. Armor., blad,
flat, broad. Lat., latus, broad, wide,
spacious. Greek, πλατυς, wide, broad,
flat; πλατη, broad surface, blade of an
oar; πλακοσ, broad, flat.
Pers., lâtû,
blade of an oar, oar. Lith., platus,
flat. Sanskr., prath, be extended, to
spread. Goth., laufs or laubs, a
leaf. Icel., laug, bath; lauga, to
bathe, lögr, the sea, water, moisture.
Bearing in mind
l and n are convertible in the
West Aryan as in the Polynesian dialects, we
might refer to the following as original
relatives of the Polynesian lau: Sanskr.,
nau, boat, ship; snâ, and its
connections, 'to bathe'. Greek, ναω, to
flow, float; ναω, νεω, to swim, to
spin; νευσις, s. swimming; ναυς,
ship, &c. Lat., no-are, to swim, float.
A.-Sax., naca, id. O. Norse, snäcka,
a shell, sobriquet of boats and vessels. Perhaps
the Gothic snaga, a garment.
Liddell and Scott
and also Benfey refer the Greek νεω and
Latin neo, 'to spin', to the Sanskrit
nah, 'to bind, tie'. With due deference, I
would suggest that the underlying sense of 'to
bind' and 'tie' is 'to shorten, contract, to
knit' - necto, nodus - and that
the original conception of 'to spin' was one of
extension, lengthening, as represented in the
Polynesian lau. (Fornander) |
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