The picture on the back
of the elderly woman could illustrate the face of a variant of
the ao staff:
Ao
Large dance paddle. 1. Command, power,
mandate, reign: tagata ao, person in power, in
command, ruler. 2. Dusk, nightfall. 3. Ao nui,
midnight. 4. Ao popohaga, the hours between
midnight and dawn. Aô,
to serve (food); ku-âo-á te kai i ruga i te kokohu,
the food is served on a platter. Vanaga.
1. Authority, kingdom, dignity,
government, reign (aho); topa kia ia te ao,
reign; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer rank; ao
ariki, royalty; ka tu tokoe aho, thy kingdom
come. PS Mgv.: ao, government, reign. Mq.: ao,
government, reign, command. Sa.: ao, a title of
chiefly dignity; aoao, excellent, surpassing,
supreme. 2. Spoon; ao oone, shovel. 3. Dancing
club T. 3. Aonui (ao-nui 2), midnight. 4.
Pau.: ao, the world. Mgv.: ao, id. Ta.:
ao, id. Mq.: aomaama, id. Ma.: ao, id.
5. Pau.: ao, happy, prosperity. Mgv.: ao,
tranquil conscience. Ta.: ao, happiness. 6. Mgv.:
ao, cloud, mist. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: ao,
id. Sa.: ao, cloud. Ma.: ao, id. 7. Mgv.:
ao, hibiscus. 8. Ta.: ao, day. Mq.: ao,
day from dawn to dark. Sa.: ao, id. Ma.: ao,
id. 9. Ta.: ao, a bird. Ha.: ao, id. 10.
Mq.: ao, respiration, breath. Ha.: aho,
breath. 11. Mq.: ao, to collect with hand or net.
Sa.: ao, to gather. Ma.: ao, to collect.
Ta.: aoaia, to collect food and other things with
care. Churchill. |
*AUGUST 24
(236 = 390 / 2 + 41) |
25 (*157 = *314 / 2) |
26 |
"September
20 (*183) |
21 (264) |
EQUINOX |
'October 4 (277 = 236 + 41) |
5 |
6 (*199) |
October 31
(304 = 263 + 41) |
November 1
(*225) |
2 |
Al
Zubānā-14a /
Visakha-16 /
Root-3
(Badger)
ZUBEN
ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae
(224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5) |
KOCHAB (Kakkab
= Star)
= β Ursae
Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7) |
KE KWAN
(Cavalry Officer)
= β Lupi
(226.3),
KE KWAN
= κ Centauri (226.4),
ZUBEN
ELAKRIBI (Scorpion's Claw?)
= δ Librae
(226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9) |
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|
|
Cb1-15 |
Cb1-16 (408
= 400 + 4 + 4) |
Cb1-17 |
e niu
tu |
ki te
ariki - e ka hua ra tona rima |
koia
kua iri i ruga o te rima - e o to vaha mea |
Bharani-2 /
Stomach-17
(Pheasant)
π Arietis (41.2),
MIRAM
(Announcer?) = η
Persei (41.3),
BHARANI
(Bearer) = 41 Arietis (41.4),
τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7) |
TA LING
(Great Mound)
= τ Persei (42.4) |
ρ Arietis (43.0),
GORGONEA
SECUNDA = π Persei
(43.5),
ACAMAR
= θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)
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*FEBRUARY 22
(53 = 236 - 183) |
23
(TERMINALIA) |
24 |
"March 21
(80 = 263 - 183) |
22 |
23 |
'April 4 (94 = 277 - 183) |
5 |
6 |
°April 27
(117 = 80 + 37) |
28 |
29 |
May 1 (121 = 11 * 11 = 80 +
41) |
2 |
3 |
*AUGUST 27 |
28 (240) |
"September
23 (266) |
24 (240 +
27) |
'October 7
(*200) |
8 (240 + 41) |
November 3
(*227) |
4 (308 = 240 + 68) |
ω
Bootis (227.2),
NEKKAR
(Herdsman)
= β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct.
(227.7),
NADLAT
(Low little ones)
= ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)
|
15h (228.3)
ZUBEN
HAKRABIM (Scorpion's Claw)
= ν Librae
(228.3), λ Lupi (228.9) |
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|
Cb1-18 |
Cb1-19 (411
- 4 - 4 = 403) |
manu
moe ra |
ki to
mata |
MENKAR
(Nose) = α Ceti
(44.7) |
3h (45.7)
GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ
Persei (45.1),
ALGOL
(Blinking Head of the Demon)
= β Persei (45.9) |
*FEBRUARY 25 |
26 (57) |
"March 24
(83 = 97 - 14) |
25 (57 + 27 = 3 * 28)
EQUINOX |
'April 7 (97
= 124 - 27) |
8 (98 = 57 +
41) |
°April 30 |
°May 1 |
May 4 |
5 (5 * 5 *
5) |
*AUGUST 29 |
30 (242 = 2
* 121) |
"September 25 (268) |
26 |
'October 9
(282) |
10 |
November 5 |
6 (310 = 242
+ 68) |
ω Oct.
(229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi
(229.8) |
Al
Zubānā-14b
χ
Bootis (230.3),
PRINCEPS
(Leader)
= δ Bootis (230.6),
ZUBEN
ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae
(230.8) |
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|
Cb1-20 |
Cb1-21 (413
= 354 + 59) |
e nuku
mata |
hoea |
ι Persei (46.1),
MISAM (Next
to the Pleiades) = κ
Persei (46.2),
GORGONEA
QUARTA = ω Persei
(46.7),
BOTEIN (Pair
of Bellies) = δ
Arietis (46.9) |
ζ Arietis (47.7) |
*FEBRUARY 27 |
28 (59 = 2 *
29½) |
"March 26
(85) |
27 |
'April 9 |
10 (100) |
°May 2 |
3 (123) |
May 6 |
7 (127 = 59
+ 68) |
μ Lupi, γ
Tr. Austr. (231.3), ο Librae (231.8) |
ο Cor.
Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2),
ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5),
PHERKAD
(The Dim One of the Two Calves)
= γ Ursae
Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8),
υ Lupi (232.9) |
ALKALUROPS
(The Club)
= μ Bootis
(233.1),
ED ASICH
= ι Draconis (233.2) |
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|
Cb1-22 |
Cb1-23 |
Cb1-24 (416
- 4 - 4 = 408) |
ko te
rima |
kua oo
ki te vai |
ma te
ua |
ZIBAL
= ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9) |
τ Arietis (49.7) |
ALGENIB
PERSEI = α Persei
(50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)
GIENAH (γ
Corvi)
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The primary sign of Hercules was his club (Al
Kalurops), and with this he was able to produce rain by
rattling it inside a hollow piece of wood:
... He carries an
oak-club, because the oak provides his beasts and his people
with mast and because it attracts lightning more than any other
tree. His symbols are the acorn; the rock-dove, which nests in
oaks as well as in clefts of rocks; the mistletoe, or
Loranthus; and the serpent. All these are sexual emblems.
The dove was sacred to the Love-goddess of Greece and Syria; the
serpent was the most ancient of phallic totem-beasts; the cupped
acorn stood for the glans penis in both Greek and Latin;
the mistletoe was an all-heal and its names viscus
(Latin) and ixias (Greek) are connected with vis
and ischus (strength) - probably because of the spermal
viscosity of its berries, sperm being the vehicle of life.
This Hercules is male
leader of all orgiastic rites and has twelve archer companions,
including his spear-armed twin, who is his tanist or
deputy. He performs an annual green-wood marriage with a queen
of the woods, a sort of Maid Marian. He is a mighty hunter and
makes rain, when it is needed, by rattling an oak-club
thunderously in a hollow oak and stirring a pool with an oak
branch - alternatively, by rattling pebbles inside a sacred
colocinth-gourd or, later, by rolling black meteoric stones
inside a wooden chest - and so attracting thunderstorms by
sympathetic magic ...
"Alkalurops
was the Arabian adaptation of
Καλαυροψ,used
by Hesychios for the Herdsman's Club, Crook, or Staff, analogous
to the Pόπαλον
of Hyginus and the Clava
of the Latins." (Allen)
The ua (rain making club) has a low forehead
- imitating the low dark clouds with rain.
Ua
1. Cause, reason why something happens or
is done; he ûa te ua, au i-ta'e-iri-ai ki tooku hare,
because of the rain, I did not go home; ua kore,
without cause, without reason. 2. Ceremononial stave
with a human face carved at one extremity. Vanaga. Cfr
toko. 1. A long club T. 2. Mgv.: ua, the
genitalia. Ta.: hua, id. Mq.: hua, id.
Ha.: hua, testicles. 3. Ta.: ua, the back
of the neck. Ma.: ua, id. Sa.: ua, the
neck. 4. Ta.: ua, a land crab which shears iron.
Ma.: uka, lobster. Sa.: uga, the hermit
crab. Churchill.
Ûa.
Rain; 1. ûa hakamito,
persistent, but not strong, rain; 2. ûa kura,
fine rain, drizzle; 3. ûa matavaravara, strong
rain; 4. ûa parera, torrential rain; 5. ûa
tai, rain followed by fair weather at sea. Ehu ûa,
drizzle. Vanaga.
Ûaûa.
Tendons, muscles. 1. Hau ûaûa
kio'e, line made from rats' tendons. 2. Ûaûa
toto, vein, artery. 3. Ûaûa piki, spasm.
Vanaga.
1. Rain; hoa mai te ua, to
rain; mou te ua, to cease raining. P Mgv., Mq.,
Ta.: ua, rain. 2. Vein, artery, tendon (huahua
1) (uha G);
ua nene,
pulse; ua nohototo,
artery, ua gaei,
pulse. Uaua,
vein, tendon, line; kiko
uaua, muscle T.
Hakauaua, to mark with lines. P Pau.:
tare-ua,
tendon. Mgv., Mq., Ta.:
uaua, vein, tendon. Churchill.
U'a.
Of the tide, to reach its maximum;
tai u'a, high tide. Vanaga. Wave, surge; tai ua,
high tide. Churchill.
Uá. Ata uá,
morning twilight.
Uáuá,
to reside; resident; noho uáuá to settle
somewhere; ina koe ekó noho uáuá, do not
establish yourself there. Vanaga. |
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