The star 'flames' from the fire generated on the
Turtle are mostly not very bright:
The first star to rise is
ξ, reasonable enough
because the slender Crane standing tall is like a
'sky propper':
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Egyptian djed |
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Phoenician
sāmekh |
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Greek
xi |
Ξ (ξ) |
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... In
rongorongo times the last Greek lettered
star in
Orion (ξ)
rose with the Sun in June 21. The letter
seems to have originated from the
Phoenician letter samekh (tent
peg, supporting prop), which in turn may
have been derived from the ancient
Egytian djed column ... |
... In
the beginning were Rangi and Papa, Sky
and Earth. Darkness existed. Rangi adhered
over Papa his wife. Man was not. A person
arose, a spirit who had no origin; his name was
Rangitokona, the Heaven-propper. He went to
Rangi and Papa, bid them go apart, but
they would not ...
The kuhane
station Papa O Pea began when Alnair was
close to the Full Moon in Hora Iti 20. The Sun rose
at Alnair in the day before Tehetu'upú 20, which
was 48 weeks after the previous March equinox.
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Pea
(Also peapea): To go
away with bits of food or mud sticking to
one's face or garments. Vanaga.
Peaha, perhaps ...
maybe, chance, doubtful; reoreo peaha
... Ma.: pea, perhaps. Peapea,
an erasure ... hakapeapea ...
Peau, to sweep all away. Ma.: peau,
to be turned away. Churchill.
Peau, a wave (Sa.,
To., Fu., Fotuna, Niuē,
Mq., Nuguria); Mgv.: peau,
peahu,
id. Churchill 2. |
Below I have redmarked
such Greek letters which I can find in the star map
above:
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Α α |
Ν ν |
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Β β |
Ξ ξ |
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Γ γ |
Ο ο |
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Δ δ |
Π π |
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Ε ε |
Ρ ρ |
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Ζ ζ |
Σ σ/ς |
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Η η |
Τ τ |
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Θ θ |
Υ υ |
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Ι ι |
Φ φ |
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Κ κ |
Χ χ |
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Λ λ |
Ψ ψ |
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Μ μ |
Ω ω |
Their number is 21 and the last letter is φ:
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Egyptian bread, (-t, female
determinant) |
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Phoenician qoph |
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Greek
phi |
Φ(φ) |
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...
is the 21st letter of the Greek
alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain
but it may be that phi originated as
the letter qoppa ... In traditional
Greek numerals, phi has a value of
500 or 500000 ...
Isaac Taylor,
History of the Alphabet: Semitic
Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The
old explanation, which has again
been revived by Halévy, is that it
denotes an 'ape,' the character Q
being taken to represent an ape with
its tail hanging down. It may also
be referred to a Talmudic root which
would signify an 'aperture' of some
kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ...
Lenormant adopts the more usual
explanation that the word means a
'knot' ...
... The king, wearing now a short,
stiff archaic mantle, walks in a
grave and stately manner to the
sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut,
the 'Opener of the Way', where he
anoints the sacred standard and,
preceded by this, marches to the
palace chapel, into which he
disappears. A period of time elapses
during which the pharaoh is no
longer manifest.
When he reappears he is clothed as
in the Narmer palette, wearing the
kilt with Hathor belt and
bull's tail attatched. In his right
hand he holds the flail scepter and
in his left, instead of the usual
crook of the Good Shepherd, an
object resembling a small scroll,
called the Will, the House Document,
or Secret of the Two Partners, which
he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming
to all in attendance that it was
given him by his dead father
Osiris, in the presence of the
earth-god Geb. 'I have run',
he cries, 'holding the Secret of the
Two Partners, the Will that my
father has given me before Geb.
I have passed through the land and
touched the four sides of it. I
traverse it as I desire.' ... |
The peculiar translation of
pea as 'to go away with bits of food
or mud sticking to one's face or garments'
suddenly becomes possible to explain - it
could allude to the 'aperture' leading from
one cycle to the next, with Φ originating
from the Egyptian sign for bread (the basic
food). The 'period of time during which the
pharaoh is no longer manifest' could have
been 3 days, and if so then the 'breads'
could have symbolized these 3 days.
The last star in Grus is
though not φ marking the 'door' but the
little egg ('eye') beyond the entrance,
marking where 'spring' was beginning:
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Egyptian eye |
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Phoenician ayin |
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Greek omicron |
Ο (ο) |
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... The
letter name is derived from
Proto-Semitic
*‘ayn-,
eye, and the Phoenician
letter had an eye-shape,
ultimately derived from the
jr hieroglyph ... To
this day,
‘ayin in
Hebrew, Arabic and Maltese
means 'eye' and 'spring' (‘ayno
in Neo-Aramaic). |
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