1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga.

1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill.

Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

The 'neck' of the powerful Spring Sun appears to be broken (poro) in Ga8-16 (a haú with 10 feathers). And 11 days later, in Gb1-1, arrives 'one more' such 'haú poro' (this one with 8 feathers), which presumably illustrates the emergence of a 'shoot':


Ga8-16	Ga8-17	Ga8-18 (222)	Ga8-19	Ga8-20	Ga8-21

Ga8-22	Ga8-23	Ga8-24	Ga8-25	Ga8-26 (230)


*Gb1-1 (295)**	Gb1-2	Gb1-3

The tablet has been reversed (huri) and Moon ('the banana') now rules the sky because the true Sun has disappeared and only his resemblance (huri) remains ('The visible sun is not the real one ... ').

In Ga8-22 we can see how the night sky (ragi) has come up to the top and how the 'head' of the day sky now is upside down at the bottom, a kind of revolution. The vanished Sun evidently will sprout, though, as visualized e.g. in Ga8-18 (a Saturday).

However, new bananas do not grow from planted seeds or nuts, they have long ago been domesticated away from the path of Mother Nature:

"The multiplication of the plantains is more difficult than that of a seed-bearing plant. The mature root-stocks need to be dug up, divided, preferably dried for a while, and then replanted. This species is an extraordinary poor volunteer, and its spread must have been almost entirely by deliberated and rather careful planting." (C. O. Sauer according to Thor Heyerdahl's Early Man and the Ocean.)

"We may reasonably admit that one, or a few, of the numerous Polynesian plantain varieties may have been carried by the Polynesians themselves to South America, for the 'eyes' (buds) can very easily be transported, over long distances, with a minimum of care and still retain their viability ..." (E. D. Merrill according to Early Man and the Ocean.)

An 'eye' is a mata, as e.g. in the belly of the headless Rogo in Gb1-3:

... There is a wide range of significations in this stem. It will serve to express an opening as small as the mesh of a net or as large as a door of a house; it will serve to designate globular objects as large as the eye or as small as the bud on a twig or the drop of rain, and designating a pointed object it answers with equal facility for the sharpened tip of a lance or the acres of a headland; it describes as well the edge of a paddle or the source from which a thing originates ...