An unborn child does not breathe, because he is surrounded by 'water' (amniotic liquid, ranu):
... There exists a surprisingly developed terminology for distinguishing the phases of the tides: tai pâpaku, low tide; ku-gúgú-á te tai, tide at his lowest, literally 'the sea has dried up'; he-ranu te tai, when the water starts rising again; this is a strange expression, since ranu means 'amniotic liquid,' the breaking of the waters which precedes birth; in this phase of the tides the fish start coming out of their hiding places and swim to the coast in search of food ...
Instead his life depends on the placenta - te henua o te poki (the 'earth' of the child). Only when he later takes his first breath does his true living spirit (manu rere) arrives from the Milky Way:
The Babylonians had an Eagle trying to carry a Dead Man across from the region of Sagittarius to the opposite side of the sky, but the attempt seems to have failed:
... A Babylonian legend says that Etana was desperate to have a child, until one day he helped save an eagle from starving, who then took him up into the sky to find the plant of birth. This led to the birth of his son, Balih. In the detailed form of the legend, there is a tree with the eagle's nest at the top, and a serpent at the base. Both the serpent and eagle have promised Utu (the sun god) to behave well toward one another, and ... share food with their children.
But one day, the eagle eats the serpent's children. The serpent comes back and cries. Utu tells the serpent to hide inside of the stomach of a dead bull. The eagle goes down to eat the bull. The serpent captures the eagle, and throws him into a pit to die of hunger and thirst. Utu sends a man, Etana, to help the eagle. Etana saves the eagle, but he also asks the bird to find the plant of birth, in order to become father of a son. The eagle takes Etana up to the heaven of the god Anu, but Etana becomes afraid in the air and he goes back to the ground ...
In line Ca2 there is only one manu rere glyph, viz. where Mira (ο Ceti) rose with the Sun:
| April 23 |
24 (114) |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
354 |
| October 23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (300) |
28 |
 |
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 |
 |
 |
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| Ca2-7 |
Ca2-8 |
Ca2-9 (35) |
Ca2-10 |
Ca2-11 |
Ca2-12 |
| manu rere |
e tara tua |
tagata oho |
ki te kea |
tagata oho ki roto o to vai |
kua noho te kea |
| θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (33.7) |
no star listed |
ξ Arietis (35.0) |
no star listed |
no star listed |
ν Arietis (38.5) |
| 502 B.C. |
573 B.C. |
644 B.C. |
715 B.C. |
786 B.C. |
857 B.C. |
| ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5, ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) |
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), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) |
| 360 |
12 * 29˝ (a synodic lunar month) = 354 days.
| Egyptian eye |
 |
Phoenician ayin |
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Greek omicron |
Ο (ο) |
|
... 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). |
Mira is at the neck of Cetus and a very special star:
... In 1638 Johannes Holwarda determined a period of the star's reappearances, eleven months; he is often credited with the discovery of Mira's variability. Johannes Hevelius was observing it at the same time and named it 'Mira' (meaning 'wonderful' or 'astonishing,' in Latin) in 1662's Historiola Mirae Stellae, for it acted like no other known star ...
There probably was a half-hidden meaning in the name given by Hevelius, because Mirach is the star at the girdle of Andromeda. A girdle was a sign of 'middle' (between the upper and lower parts of the body), but also a sign of creating a cycle (faka-taka):
| April 6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 (100) |
| October 6 |
7 |
8 (281) |
9 |
10 |
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 |
| Ca1-16 |
Ca1-17 |
Ca1-18 |
Ca1-19 |
Ca1-20 |
| koia ka hua |
koia ki te henua |
kiore kikiu - te henua |
te maitaki - te kihikihi |
te maitaki - te kihikihi |
| Al Batn Al Hūt-26 / Revati-28 |
ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6) |
no star listed |
no star listed |
Ksora (20.1), γ Phoenicis (20.8) |
| MIRACH (16.0), Anunitum (16.5), REVATI (16.9) |
| 706 A.D. |
635 A.D. |
564 A.D. |
493 A.D. |
422 A.D. |
| Al Dafīrah (199.4) |
σ Virginis (200.4) |
ι Centauri (201.4) |
Al Simāk-12 / Chitra-14 / Horn-1 |
71 Virginis (203.6) |
| Mizar (202.4), SPICA, Alcor (202.7) |
| April 11 |
12 |
13 |
14 (104) |
| October 11 |
12 (285) |
13 |
14 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Ca1-21 |
Ca1-22 |
Ca1-23 |
Ca1-24 |
| tagata huki |
manu rere |
- |
- |
| δ Phoenicis (21.5) |
no star listed |
Achernar (23.3) |
no star listed |
| 351 A.D. |
280 A.D. |
209 A.D. |
138 A.D. |
| no star listed |
Heze (205.0) |
ε Centauri (206.3) |
no star listed |
| April 15 |
16 |
17 (107) |
| October 15 |
16 |
17 (290) |
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 |
 |
| Ca1-25 |
Ca1-26 |
Ca2-1 (27) |
| kiore ki te huaga |
kua moe ki te tai. |
Te heke |
| no star listed |
POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9) |
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 |
| Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4) |
| 67 A.D. |
5 B.C. |
76 B.C. |
| τ Bootis (208.3), Benetnash (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8) |
no star listed |
Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) |
Its variability could have made Mira a Sign of how 'life' (light) changes to 'death' (darkness) and then back again in 11 steps. When Mira was assigned its Greek letter (o-mikron, like a little bird egg) it may have been because Mira rose with the Sun in spring, the season when births are abundant.
In April 23 was also θ Arietis:
| Egyptian nfr |
 |
Phoenician teth |
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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) ... |
The creator of the C text seems to have put manu rere ('the living spirit') at Ca2-7 because this was where in rongorongo times Mira rose heliacally.
And then it ought to be coordinated with some measure for the solar year. April 23 is day 113 counted from January 1 (= 33 days counted from March 21), and 113 = 16 weeks + 1 day. I.e., similar to how 11 = 10 + 1. The added 1 may have symbolized the beginning of a newborn cycle.
By the way the 'Horse-Fly' (taka-ure) was also making a cycle (taka):
| Ure 1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga.
Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill.
Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill.
H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom (pōule) appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe. |
The meaning of henua is manifold (like most Polynesian words) and we had better begin to understand the concept, because it was often used by Metoro:
| Henua Land, ground, country; te tagata noho i ruga i te henua the people living on the earth. Placenta: henua o te poki. Vanaga.
1. Land, country, region (heenua); henua tumu, native land. P Pau.: henua, country. Mgv.: enua, land, said of shallow places in the sea; mamuenua, the earth. Mq.: fenua, henua, land, country, place, property. Ta.: fenua, land, country place. There is apparently nothing critical in the first vowel; e is the most widely extended; a is found only in Samoa, Viti, and Rotumā in Nuclear Polynesia, but is the dominant vowel in Melanesian survivals. 2. Uterus. T (cf eve). T Pau.: pufenua, placenta. Mgv.: enua, id. Mq.: fenua, henua, id. 3. Pupuhi henua, volley. PS Sa.: fana-fanua, cannon. To.: mea fana fonua, id. Fu.: fanafenua, id. Niuē: fanafonua, id. Viti: a dakal ni vanua, id. Churchill.
M.: Whenua, the Earth; the whole earth: I pouri tonu te rangi me te whenua i mua. 2. A country or district: A e tupu tonu mai nei ano i te pari o taua whenua. Tangata-whenua, natives of a particular locality: Ko nga tangata-whenua ake ano o tenei motu. Cf. ewe, the land of one's birth. 3. The afterbirth, or placenta: Ka taka te whenua o te tamaiti ki te moana. Cf. ewe, the placenta. 4. The ground, the soil: Na takoto ana i raro i te whenua, kua mate. 5. The land, as opposed to the water: Kia ngaro te tuapae whenua; a, ngaro rawa, ka tahi ka tukua te punga. Text Centre.
Ha.: Honua. 1. nvs. Land, earth, world; background, as of quilt designs; basic, at the foundation, fundamental. See lani. Kaua honua, world war. Ka wahine 'ai honua, the earth-eating woman [Pele]. ho'o honua To establish land, act as land; to scoop out earth, as for a fireplace; firmly established. Fig., rich (rare). (PPN fanua.). 2. part. Suddenly, abruptly and without reason. Cf. kūhonua. Huha honua ihola nō, suddenly angry and for no reason. Maka'u honua ihola nō ia, sudden fear. 3. n. Middle section of a canoe; central section of a canoe fleet, as fishing iheihe fish; main section, as of an army. Wehewehe. |
The Swedish word for uterus is livmoder, which means mother (moder) of life (liv).
| sky (ragi) |
high |
wings |
bird eggs |
| earth (henua) |
middle |
legs |
uterus |
| ocean (moana) |
low |
fins |
fish roe |
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