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The stars of Enlil occupied the region in the north:

On Hawaii the basic idea was the same:

... Take the lower part of a gourd or hula drum, rounded as a wheel (globe), on which several lines are to be marked and burned in, as described hereafter. These lines are called na alanui o na hoku hookele, the highways of the navigation stars, which stars are also called na hoku ai-aina, the stars which rule the land. Stars lying outside these three lines are called na hoku a ka lewa, foreign, strange, or outside stars ...

... three lines are drawn east and west, one across the northern section indicates the northern limit of the Sun (corresponding with the Tropic of Cancer) about the 15th and 16th days of the month Kaulua (i.e., the 21st or 22nd of June) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane. The line across the southern section indicates the southern limit of the Sun about the 15th or 16th days of the month Hilinama (December 22) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the black-shining road of Kanaloa. The line exactly around the middle of the sphere is called ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u, the road of the spider, and also ke alanui i ka Piko a Wakea, the way to the navel of Wakea (the Sky-father) ...

The beginning of the list of 33 stars on the path of Enlil was up at the north pole, at Draco - at the Plough:

33 Northern stars on the Path of Enlil

Plough

Enlil, the lead star of the stars of Enlil (Most of Draco)

1

Wolf

At the seed funnel of the Plough (Head & middle of Draco)

2

Old Man

Enmesharra (Perseus)

3

Crook

The Crouching god (Auriga)

4

Great Twins

Lugalirra and Meslamtaea (Gemini)

5-6

Little Twins

Alammush and Ninezengud (Canis Minor)

7-8

Crab

The seat of Anu (Cancer)

9

Lion

Latarak (Leo)

10

23 stars on the Central Path of Anu

Field

The seat of Ea, which leads the stars of Anu (4 stars of the Square of Pegasus)

4

The star at the Field (head and neck of Pegasus, and western fish in Pisces)

Swallow

5

The star behind the Field (northern fish in Pisces)

Anunitum

6

The star behind it (Dumuzi or Aries)

Hired Man

7

Star Cluster

The Seven Gods, the great gods (Pleiades)

8

Bull of Heaven

The Bull's Jaw, the Crown of Anu (Taurus, or at least its head)

9

True Shepherd of Anu

Papsukal, the messenger of Anu and Ishtar (Orion)

10

The Twins opposite the True Shepherd of Anu (Cetus and a part of Eridanus)

Lulal & Latarak

11, 12

The star behind him (Lepus)

Rooster

13

Arrow

Arrow of the great god Ninurta (Sirius and probably other stars in Canis Major)

14

Bow

Elamite Ishtar, the daughter of Anu (Puppis)

15

Serpent

Ningishzida, lord of the Underworld (Hydra)

16

15 Southern stars on the Path of Ea

Fish

The lead star of the stars of Ea (Fomalhaut)

1

Great One

Ea  (Aquarius)

2

Eridu

Ea  (Vela)

3

Ninmah

The star to his right (Vela)

4

33 (stars in the north) + 15 (stars in the south) = 48 as in the number of right ascension hours in 2 days.

"Ptolemy scientifically followed with those now known as the ancient forty-eight, in the 7th and 8th books of the Syntaxis, twelve of the zodiac with twenty-one northern and fifteen southern, made up by 1028 stars, including 102 αμόρφωτοι, all probably from Hipparchos, although with some acknowledged alterations by himself ..." (Allen)

Ptolemaios:
zodiac 12
north 21 36
south 15
  48
 Enuma (or Ea), Anu, Enlil series:
Anu 23
Enlil 33 48
Ea (Enuma) 15
  71 (= 26000 / 366)

The birth of First Father in June 16, 3122 B.C. could evidently have corresponded to the time when the Sun reached the Tropic of Cancer (ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane).

... three lines are drawn east and west, one across the northern section indicates the northern limit of the Sun (corresponding with the Tropic of Cancer) about the 15th and 16th days of the month Kaulua (i.e., the 21st or 22nd of June) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane ...

The first day in the month Kaulua (Tau-rua) ought to have been in June 6 (= 21 - 15). The month of Father Light - Jus-piter (Jupiter) or Tane (Kane) - appears to be in June.

... 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 ...

Defeat of Seven Macaw

May 28, 3149 B.C.

12.18.4.5.0 1 Ahaw 3 K'ank'in

Birth of First Father

June 16, 3122 B.C.

12.19.11.13.0 1 Ahaw 8 Muwan

Birth of First Mother

 December 7, 3121 B.C.

12.19.13.4.0 8 Ahaw 18 Tz'ek

Creation

August 13, 3114 B.C.

4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u
Ahau. To blow freshly, coolness, zephyr, salubrious, breeze, wind; ahau ora, agreeable breeze.

Hau, to blow, blusterous, to breathe.

hau ia

Ba2-11

Ahau (Ahaw)

We can guess the astronomers had put Kau-lua 1 (Maro 6) at heliacal φ Gemini because anciently, at the time when Bharani was at 0h, its day number would have been 157 (= 314 / 2). A quarter of 472 (16 lunar synodic months) nights was 118 nights and at the time of rongorongo the right ascension position of φ Gemini was *118:

8 MAY (*48) 9 10 (130) 11 12 13
*MAY 10 11 12 (*52) 13 14 15 (135)
MAY 14 (*54) 15 16 (136) 17 18 19
Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26 Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 (59)
φ Gemini (118.4) DRUS = χ Carinae (119.9) ω Cancri (120.2) 8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS = ζ Puppis (121.3)

ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (Roger reversed) = γ Velorum (122.7) TEGMINE (Covered Up) = ζ Cancri (123.3)
July 17 (*118) 18 19 (200) 20 21 22 / 7
"June 6 (157) 7 Kaulua 3 9 (*80) Maro 10 11
ι Sagittarii (301.2), TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii, ξ Aquilae (301.3), ALSHAIN (Falcon) = β Aquilae (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8) ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) τ Aquilae (303.8) 20h (304.4)

η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4)

SHANG WEI (Higher Guard) = κ Cephei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft) = θ Aquilae (Ant.) (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8) TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae (306.3)
January 16 17 18 (383) 19 20 21
"December 6 7 8 9 10 (344) 11 (*265)
NOVEMBER 13 14 15 16 (320) 17 18 (*242)
*NOVEMBER 9 10 (314) 11 12 (*236) 13 14
7 NOVEMBER 8 9 10 (314) 11 12 (*236)
Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant) Phoenician qoph Greek phi Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

On Hawaii the Tropic of Capricorn was marked as a line for ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the black-shining road of Kanaloa (Tagaroa), and the date given - 'about the 15th or 16th days of the month Hilinama (December 22)' - ought to be half a year later than Kaulua 16 (probably corresponding to Maro 21 - or "June 21 - on Easter Island).

14 MAY 15 16 (136) 17 18 (*58)
*MAY 16 (136) 17 18 19 20 (*60)
MAY 20 (140) 21 22 23 (*64 = *128 / 2)
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 (63) Ga3-5
AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4) AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8) ο Ursa Majoris (127.4) Pushya-8

υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2)

July 23 (204) 24 (*125) 25 26 27 (208)
°July 19 (200) 20 (*121) 21 22 / 7 23 (204)
'June 26 (177) 27 28 29 (*100) SIRIUS
"June 12 (163) 13 (*84) 14 (165) Maro 15 Kaulua 11
GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (The Sheep - to be slaughtered) = ν Capricorni (307.9) Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 (The Lucky One of the Slaughterers) / Ox / Herd Boy-9 (Buffalo)

DABIH = β Capricorni (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), SADIR (Breast) = γ Cygni (308.4), PEACOCK = α Pavonis (308.7)

KHUFU

MINTAKA (δ Orionis)

KHAFRE

ALNILAM (ε Orionis)

MENKAURE

ALNILAK (ζ Orionis)

OKUL = π Capricorni (309.6), BOS = ρ Capricorni (309.9)

ARNEB (α Leporis)

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

HEKA (λ Orionis)

ROTTEN MELON = ε Delphini, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

PHAKT (α Columbae)

January 22 (387) 23 24 (*309) 25 (390) 26
°January 18 (384) 19 20 (385) 21 (*306) 22
'December 26 (360) 27 28 29 (363) 30 (*284)
"December 12 13 14 (348) 15 16 (*270)
NOVEMBER 19 20 (316) 21 22 (*246) 23
*NOVEMBER 15 16 (320) 17 18 (*242) 19
13 NOVEMBER 14 (318) 15 16 (*240) 17
MAY 25 (290 / 2) 26 (*66) 27 28
Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9 (68)
Āshleshā-9 / Willow-24 (Stag)

π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ Hydrae (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ = σ Hydrae, MUSEIDA = π² Ursae Majoris (129.9)

RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)

Al Nathrah-6

BEEHIVE = ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)

Extended Net-26a / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)

η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE (Bow and Arrow) = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)

ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)
July 28 29 (*130) 30 31 (212)
°July 24 25 26 (*127) 27 (208)
'July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185)
"June 17 18 19 (*90) 20 (171)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 24 25 26 (*250) 27 (331)
ROTANEV = β Delphini, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN = α Delphini, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8) Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 / Dhanishta-24 / Girl-10 (Bat)

YUE (Battle-Axe) = ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8)

BETELGEUZE (α Orionis)

BATEN ALGIEDI = ω Capricorni (315.8)
January 27 (392) 28 29 (*314) 30
°January 23 24 25 (*310) 26
'December 31 'January 1 2 3 (*288)
"December 17 18 19 (*273) 20 (354)

MAY 29 30 (150) 31 (*71) JUNE 1 2 3 4
Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 (72) Ga3-14 Ga3-15 Ga3-16
γ Pyxidis (133.6) ζ Hydrae (134.1), ρ Cancri (134.2), ζ Oct. (134.3), ο Cancri (134.6), δ Pyxidis (134.9) ACUBENS = α Cancri, TALITHA BOREALIS = ι Ursae Majoris (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6) ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8) 9h (137.0)

σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)

κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5) π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS = ι Carinae (139.8)
August 1 2 3 (*500) 4 (216) 5 6 7
°July 28 29 (*130) 30 31 °August 1 2 (214) 3
'July 5 6 (*107) 7 8 9 (190) 10 11
Kaulua 16 Kaulua 17 "June 23 ST JOHN'S DAY Maro 25 26 (177) 27
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 28 29 30 (*254) DECEMBER 1 2 (336) 3 4
μ Aquarii (316.0) ε Equulei (317.8) no star listed (318) 21h (319.6)

ARMUS = η Capricorni (319.0), DORSUM = θ Capricorni (319.3), TSOO = 24 Capricorni (319.7)

DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8) α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8) KITALPHA = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN = α Cephei (322.9)
January 31 (396) February 1 (32) 2 3 4 (400) 5 6
°January 27 28 29 (*314) 30 31 (396) °February 1 2
'January 4 5 (*290) 6 7 (372) 8 9 10
Hilinama 15 Hilinama 16 "December 23 X-MAS EVE 25 26 (360) 27

In Ga3-10 the element in front is a variant of the hau tea type of glyph which exhibits a 'face' (mata) also at its back side, a sign which probably was used as a way to convey the idea of Janus - where a dark cycle ended and a new cycle of light was born.

... Duir as the god of the oak month looks both ways because his post is at the turn of the year; which identifies him with the Oak-god Hercules who became the door-keeper of the Gods after his death. He is probably also to be identified with the British god Llyr of Lludd or Nudd, a god of the sea - i.e. a god of a sea-faring Bronze Age people - who was the 'father' of Creiddylad (Cordelia) an aspect of the White Goddess; for according to Geoffrey of Monmouth the grave of Llyr at Leicester was in a vault built in honour of Janus. Geoffrey writes:

Cordelia obtaining the government of the Kingdom buried her father in a certain vault which she ordered to be made for him under the river Sore in Leicester (Leircester) and which had been built originally under the ground in honour of the god Janus. And here all the workmen of the city, upon the anniversary solemnity of that festival, used to begin their yearly labours.

Since Llyr was a pre-Roman God this amounts to saying that he was two-headed, like Janus, and the patron of the New Year; but the Celtic year began in the summer, not in the winter. Geoffrey does not date the mourning festival but it is likely to have originally taken place at the end of June ... What I take for a reference to Llyr as Janus occurs in the closing paragraph of Merlin's prophecy to the heathen King Vortigern and his Druids, recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth:

After this Janus shall never have priests again. His door will be shut and remain concealed in Ariadne's crannies.

In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

Ga3-10 hau tea hau ia Ahau (Ahaw)

The term hau tea was frequently used by Metoro and evidently it was referring to white light in the sky:

Tea

1. Light, fair, whitish. 2. To rise (of the moon, the stars); ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi, the evening star has risen. Vanaga.

1. To shine, be bright, brilliant, white; tea niho, enamel of the teeth; ata tea, dawn; teatea, white, blond, pale, colorless, invalid; rauoho teatea, red hair; hakateatea, to blanch, to bleach. P Pau.: faatea, to clear, to brighten. Mgv.: tea, white, blanched, pale. Mq.: tea, white, clear, pure, limpid. Ta.: tea, white, brilliant. 2. Proud, vain, haughty, arrogance, to boast; tae tea, humble; teatea, arrogant, bragging, pompous, ostentatious, to boast, to show off, haughty; hakateatea, to show off. Mgv.: akateatea, pride, vanity, ostentatious, to be puffed up. Ta.: teoteo, boastful, proud, haughty. 3. Mgv.: teatea, heavy rain. Ha.: kea, the rain at Hana and Koolau. Churchill.

1. White, clear; fair-complexioned person, often favorites at court; shiny, white mother-of-pearl shell, cfr. keakea, kekea, Mauna Kea. Po'o kea, towhead, gray-haired person. One kea, white sand (this is shortened to ōkea or kea, as in the expression kea pili mai, drift gravel - vagabond). (PPN tea). 2. Breast milk. See Nu'a-kea. 3. A variety of sugar cane, among Hawaiians one of the best-known and most-used canes, especially in medicine: clumps erect, dense, of medium height; pith white. Ua ola ā 'ō kō kea, living until kea cane tassels (until the hair turns gray). 4. Name listed by Hillebrand for kolomona (Mezoneuron kavaiense); see uhiuhi. Wehewehe.

KEA. adj. Haw., also keo, keo-keo, white, lucid, clear; a-kea, openly, public; au-akea, at noon, midday. Sam.:  tea-tea-vale, be pale; ao-atea, forenoon; atea-tea, wide, spacious. Tah.: tea, white; teo-teo, pride, haughtiness; atea, clear, distinct, far off. Marqu., tea, atea, white, broad daylight, also name of the principal god; light generally, as opposed to darkness.

Fiji., cea-cea, pale, deathlike; cecea, daybreak, light of morning. Malg., tziok, brilliant, snowwhite. Ceram (Mahai), teen, a star. Greek, θεος, m. θεα, f. god, goddess, divinity generally. In Greek, θεος signified no god in particular, but was applied ot almost all the gods, though perhaps more often to the sun. As the first gods were the sun, moon, &c., their brilliancy and whiteness were the underlying sense of the names given them. That primary sense was apparently lost in the Greek and the other West Aryan branches, though in the Polynesian both the primary and derivative sense has been preserved, ans in the Marqu. atea, both god and light, in the Tah. tapu-tea, the rainbow, and the Sam. tapu-i-tea, the evening star...

Atea

The name of the district or section of country over which Olopana is to have ruled in Kahiki was in Hawaiian Moa-ula-nui-akea. Analyzing this word, it consists of one appellative, Moa, and three adjectives or epithets, ula, nui, akea, 'red, great, open, or wide-spreading' ... (Fornander)

Pau.: fakaatea, to remove, to put away. Ta.: atea, clear. Mq.: atea, id. Sa.: ateatea, wide, spacious. Ma.: atea, clear. Churchill.

The Hawaiian Sky-father was named Wakea and this word was obviously related to akea (atea).

... The Hawaiian day was divided in three general parts, like that of the early Greeks and Latins, - morning, noon, and afternoon - Kakahi-aka, breaking the shadows, scil. of night; Awakea, for Ao-akea, the plain full day; and Auina-la, the decline of the day. The lapse of the night, however, was noted by five stations, if I may say so, and four intervals of time, viz.: (1.) Kihi, at 6 P.M., or about sunset; (2.) Pili, between sunset and midnight; (3) Kau, indicating midnight; (4.) Pilipuka, between midnight and surise, or about 3 A.M.; (5.) Kihipuka, corresponding to sunrise, or about 6 A.M. ...

... 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 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 ...

Manu kake (climbing 'bird') is the name used by Metoro for a type of glyph which exhibits the basic characteristics of Janus:

manu kake Ga3-1
Kake

Kakea, to come near, to embark. P Pau.: kake, to climb, to ascend. Mgv.: kake, the arrival of shoals of spawning fish. Mq.: kake, to climb up a valley. Ta.: ae, to climb, to ascend. Churchill. Mgv.: kake, to strike on an ocean reef. Ta.: ae, to strand. Churchill.

Sa.: a'e, upward, to go up; sa'e, to elevate one leg, as in the act of falling in a club match; 'a'e, to ascend, to rise. To.: hake, upward, to ascend. Fu.: ake, up, to ascend; sake, ro raise the leg at one in derision or mockery; kake, to climb, to ascend. Niuē: hake, up, going up. Uvea: ake, up; kake, to go up. Ma.: ake, upward; kake, to climb, to ascend. Mq.: ake, on high, upward; kake, to ascend. Mgv.: ake, upward. Bukabuka: ake, up. Ta.: ae, up, to go up, to ascend, to climb. Ha.: ae, to raise, to lift up, to mount. Fotuna: no-jikijiake, to lift up; no-tukake, to stand upright. Nukuoro: kake, to go up. Nuguria: kake, up; hanage, northwest. Rapanui: kake a, to go abroad. Vi.: thake, upward; thaketa, to dig or lift up. Churchill 2.

... There was once an Indian who was married and the father of a boy and a girl. The Trickster, who wanted to appropriate his fine garments and his wife, persuaded him to go and fetch eaglets from the top of a high peak. The Indian took off his clothing and started to climb up the cliff, which he found quite an easy task, since the way to the nest was like a stairway. But the Trickster commanded that the peak increase in height. He made the sides completely smooth so that the Indian was unable to come back down and remained stranded at the top ...

... Several of the early missionaries comment with a fine sense of humor upon the mistake the islanders made in calling the cow when first seen a bird. This is the word which led the good missionaries into the error of their own ignorance. Manu is as wholesale in its signification as our word animal, it is generic. In the paucity of brute mammalia the first missionaries found this general term most frequently used of birds, and it was their and not a Polynesian mistake to translate manu into bird. In the material here collected it will be seen that the significations animal and bird are widely extended. In the Paumotu insects are included; the same is true of Mota, where manu signifies beetle as well as bird. Nor is its applicability restricted to earth and air; it reaches into the sea as well. Samoa uses i'amanu (fish-animal) for the whale ...