1. The sign of Aquarius is connected with the planet Saturn. One of the Polynesian names for Saturn was 'Dripping Water' (information from Makemson):
I have put a question mark at 'Swift-running' because double horo will turn it into its opposite (Saturn is the slowest moving of the planets):
For the modern mind there is no common denominator between such ideas as are expressed by the words horo and horoi. But a napkin (little handkerchief) is what you need after having gobbled down and satiated yourself, and a towel comes in handy after a bath. Allen: With Capricorn it [Aquarius] was the House of Saturn, governing the legs and ankles; and when on the horizon with the sun the weather was always rainy. When Saturn was here, he had man completely in his clutches - caput et collum; while Jupiter, when here, had humeros, pectus et pedes. In the calendar of the week Saturn-day is described (cfr at Fishing up Land) as follows:
A droplet can be imagined at bottom center in Hb9-54 and the preceding Saturday glyph has, it seems, a person who has lost (dropped) one of his fishes. The little smudge at the throat of tagata in Hb9-52 does not allude to caput et collum (head and throat) - it is only an artefact produced when I copied the glyph. |