When Raven
received his pair of sticks from
the Old Man at the bottom of the
'sea', one multicoloured and one
black, this was - I think - the
means by which Raven should
construct a healthy (ora)
new 'world' (a hazardous task).
Ora
1.
Healthy; to recover,
to be saved (from an
illness or a
danger):
ku-ora-á, ina kai
mate, he
recovered, he did
not die; ku-ora-á
te haoa, the
wound has healed;
e-ora-no-á, he
is still alive;
ora-hakaou mai,
to come back to
life; ora ké,
what a pleasant
breeze! (lit: how
healthy!). 2. Stick
for spinning top
(made from the shell
of a sandalwood nut)
with which children
make the top spin.
Vanaga.
1.
December, January.
Ora nui,
November, October.
2. To live, to
exist, to draw
breath, to survive,
to subsist, to be
well, healthy, safe,
to refresh, a pause,
rest, ease; e ko
ora, incurable;
ora tuhai,
previous existence;
ora iho, to
resuscitate, to
revive; ora nui,
vigorous; oraga,
life, existence;
oraga roaroa,
oraga roaroa
ke, oraga ina
kai mou,
immortality;
oraga kore,
lifeless; oraga
mau, oraga
ihoiho,
vivacious; oraora,
oraora no iti,
to be better;
hakaora, to draw
breath, to revive,
to strengthen,
healthy, to
sanctify, to
animate, to save, to
repose, to cure, to
rest, to comfort, to
assuage; hakaora
ina kai mou, to
immortalize;
hakaoratagata,
Messiah, Saviour. 3.
To give water to;
kua ora te kevare,
to water a horse;
hakaunu ora, to
water. 4. To
staunch, to stop the
flow of a liquid. 5.
To make an escape;
hakaora, to
discharge, to
deliver, to set
free. 6. To be awake
(probably ara);
hakaora to
guard. 7. A zephyr,
light wind; kona
ora, a breezy
spot; ahau ora,
agreeable breeze.
Churchill.
Ola, life,
health, well-being,
living, livelihood,
means of support,
salvation; alive,
living; curable,
spared, recovered,
healed; to live; to
spare, save, heal,
grant life, survive,
thrive. Ola loa,
long life,
longevity, Ola
'ana, life,
existence. Wehewehe.
The
explorers reach
Easter Island in a
'canoe' (vaka).
The name of their
craft is given as
Oraorangaru
'saved from the
billows' (Brown
1924:40) or Te
Oraora-miro 'the
living-wood'
(ME:58). The
Routledge reference
'Each (man went) on
a piece of wood'
(RM:278) also seems
to refer to the name
of the canoe. As far
back as 1934, the
name was no longer
understood. I favor
the following
explanation: The
difficulty in
interpreting the
name of the canoe of
the explorers arises
from the name
segment oraora.
To begin with, the
compound form
oraora ngaru
should be analyzed
in comparison with
other Polynesian
compounds, such as
MAO. pare-ngaru
'that which fends
off the waves'
(i.e., the hull of
the boat), TAH.
tere-'aru 'that
which moves through
the waves' (i.e.,
riding the waves on
a board). There are
several possible
translations for
oraora as the
reduplication of
ora. Te
Oraora Miro can
be translated as
'the pieces of wood,
tightly lashed
together' (compare
TAH. oraora
'to set close
together, to fit
parts of a canoe')
and be taken to
refer to the method
of construction of
the explorer canoe,
while Oraora
Ngaru means
'that which parts
the water like a
wedge', or 'that
which saves (one)
from the waves, that
which is stronger
that the waves'.
(Barthel 2) |
He Anakena |
Hora iti |
Hora nui |
Tagaroa uri |
Ko Ruti
|
Ko Koró |
'July' |
'August' |
'September' |
'October' |
'November' |
'December' |
Tua haro |
Tehetu'upú |
Tarahao |
Vaitu nui |
Vaitu potu |
He Maro |
'January' |
'February' |
'March' |
'April' |
'May' |
'June' |
... The old man gave the Raven
two small sticks, like gambling
sticks, one black, one
multicoloured. He gave him
instructions to bite them apart
in a certain way and told him to
spit the pieces at one another
on the surface of the sea. The
Raven climbed back up the pole,
where he promptly did things
backwards, just to see if
something interesting would
occur, and the pieces bounced
apart. It may well be some bits
were lost. But when he gathered
what he could and tried again -
and this time followed the
instructions he had been given -
the pieces stuck and rumpled and
grew to become the mainland and
Haida Gwaii ...
Possibly the
multicoloured (daytime) 'stick' had
to be inserted into the black
(nighttime) stick at a precise
location 'midships' in order to
create the necessary new time order.
One of my early discussions (in
Level 3) about the 'calendar of the
week' in the glyph text on the
Keiti (E) tablet:
I
believe that the
world of uncivilized
mind was well
ordered and had a
rich self-reflecting
structure, like a
hologram in which
every point is
containing the whole
picture. Therefore
it should be of
interest to
contemplate the Maya
indians' view of the
cardinal directions:
Colours are
associated with the
cardinal directions.
In the middle there
is blue-green, like
in jade. The
astronomical
observations of the
Maya Indians were
made with the two
crossed sticks and a
long hollow tube to
concentrate the
field of
observation. The
tube was made by
jade, an
extraordinary feat
of the artisans
considering the
hardness of this
material. |
The central
colour was blue-green (yax),
which should be compared with
Polynesian uri (as in
Tagaroa Uri).
Uri
1.
Dark; black-and-blue. 2.
Green; ki oti te
toga, he-uri te maúku o
te kaiga, te kumara, te
taro, te tahi hoki me'e,
once winter is over,
the grasses grow green,
and the sweet potatoes,
and the taro, and the
other plants. Uriuri,
black; very dark.
Vanaga.
Uriuri, black,
brown, gray, dark,
green, blue, violet (hurihuri).
Hakahurihuri,
dark, obscurity, to
darken. P Pau.:
uriuri, black. Mgv.:
uriuri, black,
very dark, color of the
deep sea, any vivid
color. Mq.: uiui,
black, brown. Ta.:
uri, black.
Churchill. |
The
multicoloured stick ought to
be upright whereas the black
stick should remain
horizontal and on the
midline ('surface of the
sea'). The resulting cosmic
order could be visualized as
a cross.
The first star to
rise in the Crux 'cross beam
construction' was
θ and this happened 3 days after
the 'Tail of the Lion'
(Denebola).
Egyptian
nfr |
|
Phoenician
teth |
|
Greek
theta |
Θ (θ) |
... The form
of the
letter
θ suggests a
midline
('waist'),
although the
origin of θ
is the
Phoenician
tēth
which means
'wheel'.
This in turn
could have
originated
from a glyph
named 'good'
which in
Egypt was
nfr ...
... θ is the
last star in
the Ara
constellation,
and the
ancient
meaning of
this letter
was
described as
a wheel by
the
Phoenicians
but for the
Egyptian it
meant
'good'.
When the
wheel of
time has
come full
cycle around
and the
upside down
fire-altar
is in the
past the
times ahead
should be
good (or
lucky
Sa'ad)
... |
In the following day rose η
Crucis with the Sun and in
rongorongo times this was at
12h. The first Raven stars
(Alchita and Minkar) came 183
days after 0h:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ga5-4 |
Ga5-5 |
Ga5-6 |
Ga5-7 |
Ga5-8 |
Ga5-9
(119) |
Al
Sarfah-10
/
Uttara
Phalguni-12 |
Phekda,
β
Hydrae
(179.3),
η
Crateris
(179.9)
Deneb
Cygni |
no
star
listed |
π
Virginis
(181.0),
θ
Crucis
(181.5) |
12h
(182.6) |
Alchita,
Ma
Wei
(183.1),
Minkar
(183.7),
ρ
Centauri
(183.9) |
93
Leonis
(178.0),
DENEBOLA
(178.3),
Alaraph
(178.6) |
ο
Virginis
(182.1),
η
Crucis
(182.5) |
Hora
Nui
15 |
16 |
17
(260) |
18 |
19
(*182) |
20 |
ºSept
11 |
12
(*175) |
13 |
14 |
15
(258) |
16 |
'Aug
19 |
20
(*152) |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24
(236) |
"Aug
5
(*137) |
6 |
7 |
8
(220) |
9 |
10 |
σ
Phoenicis
(360.4) |
φ
Pegasi
(361.7) |
Dzaneb
(362.4) |
η
Tucanae
(363.0),
ψ
Pegasi
(363.1),
32
Piscium
(363.2),
π
Phoenicis
(363.4),
ε
Tucanae
(363.6),
τ
Phoenicis
(363.9) |
no
star
listed
(364) |
Al
Fargh
al
Thāni-25 |
0h
(365.25) |
Caph,
SIRRAH
(0.5),
ε
Phoenicis
(0.8) |
Tarahao
16
(75
= 31
+ 28
+
16) |
17
(365
+ 31
+ 29
+ 17
=
442) |
18
(77
=
443
-
366) |
19
(444) |
20
(445) |
21
(80
=
446
-
366) |
ºMarch
13 |
3-14
(73) |
15 |
16 |
17
(*360) |
18
(77) |
'Febr
18
(414) |
19
(50) |
20
(*336) |
21 |
22 |
Terminalia |
"Febr
4
(400) |
5
(36) |
6 |
7 |
8
(*324) |
9 |
|
|
Ga5-10 |
Ga5-11
(121) |
Pálida
(184.6),
Megrez
(184.9) |
Hasta-13
/
Chariot-28 |
GIENAH
(185.1),
ε
Muscae
(185.2),
ζ
Crucis
(185.4),
Zaniah
(185.9) |
Hora
Nui
21
(*184) |
Equinox
(265) |
ºSeptember
17
(*180) |
18
(261) |
'August
25
(237) |
26
(*158) |
"August
11
(*143) |
12
(224) |
Uttara
Bhādrapadā-27
/
Wall-14 |
χ
Pegasi
(2.1),
θ
Andromedae
(2.7) |
ALGENIB
PEGASI
(1.8) |
Tarahao
22
(81
= 31
+ 28
+
22) |
23
(448
=
366
+
82) |
ºMarch
19
(78
=
443
-
365) |
20
(444
=
365
+ 31
+ 28
+
20) |
Bissextum
(55
=
*340
+ 80
-
365) |
'Feburary
25
(55
= 22
* 5
/ 2) |
"February
10
(*326) |
11
(42
=
*327
+ 80
-
365) |
For many
years I had been convinced
the picture in Ga5-7
illustrated the day when the
Sun 'penetrated the hairy
hide of winter night'. The
high neck of the running
figure with an oval in front
seemed to describe spring.
Together with the following
peculiar bird resting on a
little egg - possibly ο
Virgini - the meaning seemed
clear.
The wings of
this bird was evidently a
viri turned down 'on its
face' and her beak was
closed - she was silent not
to reveal where her egg was.
Now the meaning has become
more precise, because
viri in Ga5-8 (58)
should be compared with
viri 3 days later (61).
The true equinox was in day
22 of the 7th month (Hora
Nui) and not in Hora Nui 19.
Not at 12h but 3 days later.
I.e., when θ Andromedae was
close to the Full Moon and
the Sun was at Gienah (γ
Corvi) and at ζ Crucis.
Throwing stick? |
|
Phoenician
gimel |
|
Greek gamma |
Γ (γ) |
... In its
unattested
Proto-Canaanite
form, the letter
[gimel]
may have been
named after a
weapon that was
either a staff
sling or a
throwing stick,
ultimately
deriving from a
Proto-Sinaitic
glyph ...
Bertrand Russell
posits that the
letter's form is
a
conventionalized
image of a
camel. The
letter may be
the shape of the
walking animal's
head, neck, and
forelegs. Barry
B. Powell, a
specialist in
the history of
writing, states
'It is hard to
imagine how
gimel =
'camel' can be
derived from the
picture of a
camel ... The
word gimel
is related to
gemul, which
means 'justified
repayment', or
the giving of
reward and
punishment.
The Swedish word
gammal
means 'old' (and
dry like a
stick). |
Manacle |
ziqq |
Phoenician
zayin |
|
Greek
zeta |
Ζ (ζ) |
... Zeta
(uppercase
Ζ,
lowercase
ζ;
Greek:
ζήτα
... is the
sixth letter
of the Greek
alphabet. In
the system
of Greek
numerals, it
has a value
of 7. It was
derived from
the
Phoenician
letter
Zayin.
Letters that
arose from
zeta include
the Roman Z
and Cyrillic
З
...
Zayin
(also
spelled
Zain or
Zayn
or simply
Zay) is
the seventh
letter of
many Semitic
abjads ...
It
represents
the sound
[z].
The
Phoenician
letter
appears to
be named
after a
sword or
other
weapon. (In
Biblical
Hebrew, 'Zayin'
means sword,
and the verb
'Lezayen'
means to
arm. In
modern
Hebrew, 'zayin'
means penis
and 'lezayen'
is a vulgar
term which
generally
means to
perform
sexual
intercourse
and is used
in a similar
fashion to
the English
word fuck,
although the
older
meaning
survives in
'maavak
mezuyan'
(armed
struggle)
and 'beton
mezuyan'
(armed,
i.e.,
reinforced
concrete).
The
Proto-Sinaitic
glyph
according to
Brian
Colless may
have been
called
ziqq,
based on a
hieroglyph
depicting a
'manacle'. |
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