As a result of the 'gamma sticks' (rays from the Sun) Mother Earth would give returns in kind and possibly Metoro thought so when he said henua kua ho(k)i. For people who divided (like once the Greeks had done) cosmos into Sky, Sea, and Underworld, the idea of Mother Earth must have been strange. Their original middle world was instead the sea, flat and uninterruped in all directions. Like their ancient habitat of the vast Indoeuropean steppes.
Sea (horizontal direction) is the opposite of Sky (vertical direction). Water is striving to level out while the flames of a fire are striving upwards (like the arrows from a bow). The emergence of volcanic islands from the sea was miraculous and could only be explained by comparing the phenomenon to the equally miraculous phenomenon of birth.
According to the Chinese peoples the Columba stars formed Sun (the Child) with λ as a Son (tze). The small star 'secretions' (she) could correspond to the ejected 'spit' of the Old Bone up in the Tree. ... She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle ...
A Stag party is a Sign of a coming marriage. Anciently there appears to have been a conjunction between Sun and Earth at midsummer:
... Then I become aware of ... a presence - a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on - instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft', narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top, running up the left hand side of the solstice stone, surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance - this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of that word but rather as a reference to one of the supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple, it glows, as though lit by inner fire.' The owner of the 'club' (pole-axe, toki etc) was the King, the Ruler, and a Sign of his status as Alpha (the Bull).
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