Metoro's words at the beginning of side b of Tahua are not identical with those at the beginning of side b of Mamari:
| April 21 (111) |
22 |
23 |
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| Cb1-5 |
Cb1-6 |
Cb1-7 (399) |
| no star listed |
η Arietis (31.9) |
θ Arietis (33.3) |
Mira (33.7) |
| October 22 (295) |
23 |
24 |
| Al Ghafr / Svāti / Neck / Ch3 / T6 |
Syrma, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8), ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5) |
ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) |
| Asellus Tertius, κ Virginis, 14 Bootis (214.8), 15 Bootis (215.2, ARCTURUS (215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5) |
| April 24 |
25 |
26 (116) |
27 |
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| Cb1-8 |
Cb1-9 |
Cb1-10 |
Cb1-11 (403) |
| ξ Arietis (35.0) |
no stars listed |
ν Arietis (38.5) |
| October 25 |
26 |
27 (300) |
28 |
| Asellus Primus (217.8), τ Lupi (218.1) |
φ Virginis (218.7), σ Lupi (219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5) |
Haris (219.7). σ Bootis (220.2), η Centauri (220.4) |
ρ Lupi (221.0), Toliman (221.2) |
| rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua hiko ura - hiko o tea - ka higa te ao ko te henua ra ma te hoi atua |
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| Ab1-1 |
Ab1-2 |
Ab1-3 |
Ab1-4 |
| Te hoea - rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua ata tuu |
Were there gods (atua) present?
| Atua 1. Lord, God: te Atua ko Makemake, lord Makemake. Ki a au te Atua o agapó, I had a dream of good omen last night (lit. to me the Lord last night). 2. Gentleman, respectable person; atua Hiva, foreigner. 3. Atua hiko-rega, (old) go-between, person who asks for a girl on another's behalf. 4. Atua hiko-kura, (old) person who chooses the best when entrusted with finding or fetching something. 5. Atua tapa, orientation point for fishermen, which is not in front of the boat, but on the side. Atu'a, behind. Vanaga.
God, devil. T (etua). P Pau., Ta.: atua, god. Mgv.: etua, god, deity, divinity; to be wicked, to be full of wickedness. Mq.: etua, god, divinity. The comprehensiveness of the definition, and the same is found in the Maori, is a question of orthodoxy, merely a matter of the point of view. Of far more moment in our studies is the vowel variety of the initial syllable. Atua: Maori, Mangaia, Tahiti, Hawaii, Tongareva, Rapanui, Paumotu, Samoa, Futuna, Uvea, Niuē, Aniwa. Etua: Marquesas, Mangareva, Rapanui. Otua: Tonga. The Rotumā oiitu is probably referable to aitu. Churchill.
Mq.: atua, the fourteenth day of the moon. Ma.: atua, id. Churchill. |
As to the C text we can guess Metoro had a specific myth in mind:
| Rerorero 1. To write, to draw; rerorero i te igoa, to sign. 2. To rape. Vanaga.
To crush, to bruise. Churchill. |
| Hiko 1. To ask (for something). 2. To filch, to pilfer. Hikohiko, to snatch by force; robbery by assault. Vanaga.
Hikohiko keke, hide-and-seek. Churchill. |
| Ura Ura, lobster. Ûra, flame, blaze (ûra ahi), to become furious (with manava as subject: ku-ûra-á te manava). Úraúra, bright red. Vanaga.
1. Crayfish, lobster, prawn. P Mgv.: ura, crayfish. Mq.: uá, lobster. Ta.: oura, crayfish, lobster. 2. Fire, burning, to be in flames; uraga, combustion, flame, torch; hakaura, to cause to glow, to kindle, to light. P Mgv., Ta.: ura, a flame, to burn. Mq: uá, id. Uraga, burden, load, weight. Uraura, vermilion, scarlet. P Pau.: kurakura, red. Mgv.: uraura, an inflamed countenance. Mq.: uáuá, red, ruddy. Ta.: uraura, red. Churchill. |
... Lobster said to Flounder: 'Let us-two hide from each other, see who is best at that.' Flounder agreed to play this game. Lobster went to a hole in the coral, hid his body; but his feelers stuck out, he could not hide them. Flounder knew where he was, found him.
Said Flounder; 'Now it is my turn.' He stirred up a cloud of mud and scooted into it. Then he returned to Lobster's side, so quietly that Lobster did not know he was there. 'Here I am sir, Lobster!'
Lobster was so angry at being beaten that he stamped on the fish and smashed him flat. Cried Flounder; 'Now I've got one eye in the mud!' Therefore Lobster gouged it out for him and roughly stuck it back on top. This is the reason why men tread on the Flounder, but can always see the Lobster's feelers outside his hole ...
I suggest Metoro used these words to point at the region between Heka (Hika / Hiko) and Cancer (Lobster / Ura) in order to explain Cb1-6. The Flounder was more powerful than the Lobster and henua at left in Cb1-6 is more powerful than the one at right. Cancer has only feeble stars.
| April 21 (111) |
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| Cb1-5 |
Cb1-6 |
Cb1-7 (399) |
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