2. On Hawaii the ceremonial double of the king,
Kahoali'i,
swallowed the eye of a victim, and this happened in the pair of
days after winter solstice. He did not swallow both eyes.
Ali'i
= ariki, and
given a common cosmology and language, shared by the people on Hawaii
and the people on Easter Island, it is possible to compare with my
suggestion of the glyph type ariki
as meaning the end point of a distance in time counted from winter
solstice:
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ariki |
Ga1-5 |
Ga1-13 |
king |
d:o with head
flat at the back and with 3 feathers in front |
d:o with face
like toki (?) |
defines distance from winter solstice (?) |
winter solstice
(?) |
d:o with
creative force ahead (?) |
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5 |
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Ga1-4 |
Ga1-5 |
Ga1-6 |
Ga1-12 |
Ga1-13 |
The 'eye' at left in Ga1-5 disappears during the
season of renewal and it no longer is visible in Ga1-13, 8
glyphs later. Maybe we can
understand 'the Rumia shell around Tagaroa' in
Ga1-16 as a 'reincarnation' of the lost eye. It comes 11 days ('one more' than
10) beyond Ga1-5.
The kai gesture in the center of Ga1-6
can be explained as a sign of 'swallowing'. Moreover, the
strange left part is the same entity as the vertical 'arm of
swallowing', and it could be a variant of puo ('earth'), viz.
'mud'. The outline is somewhat like that of puo in Gb8-30
but it also suggests the outline of a rising fish:
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puo |
Ga1-6 |
covered by
earth |
'mud'
swallows old Sun (?) |
early dawn
before sunrise |
day 2 after
winter solstice (?) |
If we assume Ga1-6 represents day number 2 after winter
solstice, then vaha mea in Ga1-4 will indicate the day of
solstice, the opening of a new year. In Ga1-6 the swallowing
part is at left (in the past). At right there is a ragi sign:
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puo |
Ga1-6 |
ragi |
covered by
earth |
'mud'
swallowed old Sun (?) |
Moon behind a
spear (?) |
early dawn
before sunrise |
day 2 after
winter solstice (?) |
stars and
Moon are shining in the 'night' (?) |
In Eb7-29 there is also a ragi sign at
right, 2 glyphs beyond vaha mea:
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Eb7-23 |
Eb7-24 |
Eb7-25 |
Eb7-26 |
te hau tea -
te takaure |
te henua
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te veveke |
te henua |
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Eb7-27 |
Eb7-28 |
Eb7-29 (575) |
Eb7-30 |
te vaha |
tagata - te
kihikihi |
hagahaga mai o te
ragi |
te koka |
If we count glyphs from Eb1-1 the ordinal number
of Eb7-29 will be 575 - 326 (side a) = 249 or one less than 250,
and 575 / 25 = 23 could be a reference to Eb7-23. 25 is a Saturn
number.
Metoro said te takaure for the hanging
'fish' (giving birth?) at right in Eb7-23 (a day of Venus). It
ought to depict the old Sun 'fish' because
of te. Maybe the meaning is to connect the old 'victim' (ika)
with the emergence of a starry night sky in Eb7-29 (a day of
Mercury, the little one).
In Eb7-30 the left 'eye' has vanished and it is a
'Sun cockroach' (te koka) according to Metoro. Saturday at Eb7-25
has a takaure glyph which he named te veveke and
72 * 5 = 360. The meaning of veveke probably is 'to
quicken' = to make alive (awake from a state of standstill):
Veve
Pau.: miserable. Ta.: veve, poor,
needy, miserable. Churchill.
Veveke, to hurry up, hasten,
quicken. Websters. |
Hagahaga (left part of Eb7-29) is double
haga, which therefore should mean the opposite of the
'bay of anchorage' (winter solstice) - i.e. the new Sun is
setting sail.
Similarly, kihikihi (for the hanging maro
sign at right in Eb7-28) should be the opposite of kihi,
i.e. the opposite of sunset (Sun is rising again):
Kihi
Kihikihi, lichen; also: grey,
greenish grey, ashen. Vanaga.
Kihikihi, lichen T, stone T.
Churchill.
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. ...
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