2. When the neck of haú
looks as if it was broken (poro) in
Ga8-16 it could mean the Sun bird is dead:
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Ga8-9 (*277) |
Ga8-10 |
Ga8-11 |
Ga8-12 (*280) |
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|
Ga8-13 |
Ga8-14 |
Ga8-15 |
Ga8-16
(220) |
5 short feather signs are followed
by 5 greater ones, as if to describe how there
are 5 months with little 'arrows' followed by 5
months with powerful ones. If we count from a1,
then the first 5 months could end with line a5
(Virgo, represented by Spica, alias Ana-roto):
|
'land' |
|
a1 |
a2 |
a3 |
spring
equinox (?) |
|
Ana-muri |
Gemini |
Cancer |
|
a4 |
a5 |
a6 |
a7 |
|
Leo |
Ana-roto |
Libra |
Rehua |
The first (and greatest) of the 5
powerfully drawn feather signs could correspond
to line
a6, with the following slightly less powerfully
drawn feather corresponding to line a7 (and probably to
Rehua). From there the path goes
downwards in 3 more steps:
|
'sea' |
|
a8 |
b1
(9) |
b2
(10) |
|
Sagittarius |
Capricorn |
Aquarius |
In our list of stars the
'feather' in line a6 could be Arcturus in day
216 (which is a very special number, we
know, 12 days beyond Spica):
|
23 |
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|
Ga6-9 (150) |
Ga6-10 |
Ga6-11
(*216) |
The pillar 'to stand by' (Ana-tahua-taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae)
is a name which agrees with a great feather
standing tall. Tupu suggests it is spring
(not fall):
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Tupu 1.
Shoot, sprout, bud; to sprout, to bud.
2. Pregnant: vî'e tupu (o te poki);
to be conceived (of fetus in its
mother's womb): he-tupu te poki i
roto i te kopú o toona matu'a.
Vanaga.
To grow, to sprout, to
germinate, to come forth, to conceive,
pregnant, germ; mea tupu, plant;
tupu ke avai, of rapid growth;
tupu horahorau, precocious;
hakatupu, to produce, to stimulate
growth, to excite. P Pau.:
fakatupu,
to raise up, to create. Mgv.:
tupu, to grow, to conceive, to be
pregnant. Mq.: tupu, to grow, to
sprout, to conceive. Ta.: tupu,
to grow, to sprout. Churchill.
Mgv.: Tupu, the
best or worst, used of men or of bad
qualities. Sa.: tupu, king. Ma.:
tupu, social position, dignity.
Churchill. |
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Topa 1. To
bend down, to drop to the ground; to
fall on a certain date. 2. To stop doing
something, to drop; ina ekó topa taau
aga, do not stop, keep doing your
work. 3. To remain, to be left over, to
be unfinished; he topa te kai,
the food is not finished, there is some
left. 4. To come to one's memory; i
te aamu he topa te vânaga tûai, in
the legends old words come to memory. 5.
To remember, to reflect (with mana'u
as subject); e-topa rivariva tokorua
mana'u ki te me'e nei, let the two
of you think carefully about this thing.
Vanaga.
1. Wine; topa
tahaga, id. 2. To fall in drops, to
descend, to go down, to abdicate;
topa iho, to fall;
hakatopa,
to knock down, to cause to fall;
hakatopa ki raro, to knock down,
to subjugate. 3. Childbirth, abortion;
topa te poki, to lie in. 4. A
feast, to feast. 5. To arrive, to
result; topa rae, newcome;
topa iho, to come unexpectedly;
topa ke, to deviate; topa no mai,
topa hakanaa, topa tahaga,
mau topa pu, unexpected; topa
okotahi, solitary; hakatotopa,
to excite, to foment. 6. Bad, low,
cheap, failure; igoa topa,
nickname; ariga topa, sinister,
sly, ill-tempered, to hang the head;
hakatopa, to disparage;
hakatotopa, irresolute. 7. (Of
upward movement) topa ki raro, to
scale, to surpass; hakatopa ki te ao,
to confer a dignity; hakatopa ki te
kahu, to spread a sail;
hakatotopa, to make a genealogy.
Churchill. |
The male
Arcturus is evidently contrasted with the female Procyon (Ana-tahua-vahine-o-toa-te-manava),
the pillar 'for elocution', which
arrived 100 days earlier, before spring equinox:
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