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).
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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) |
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He
Anakena |
Hora iti |
Hora nui |
Tagaroa
uri |
Ko Ruti
|
Ko Koró |
|
'July' |
'August' |
'September' |
'October' |
'November' |
'December' |
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Tua haro |
Tehetu'upú |
Tarahao |
Vaitu
nui |
Vaitu
potu |
He Maro |
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'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).
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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).
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Egyptian
nfr |
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Phoenician
teth |
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Greek
theta |
Θ (θ) |
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... 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:
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Ga5-4 |
Ga5-5 |
Ga5-6 |
Ga5-7 |
Ga5-8 |
Ga5-9 (119) |
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Al Sarfah-10 /
Uttara Phalguni-12 |
Phekda, β Hydrae (179.3), η Crateris
(179.9)
Deneb Cygni
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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) |
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93 Leonis (178.0),
DENEBOLA
(178.3), Alaraph (178.6) |
ο Virginis
(182.1),
η Crucis
(182.5) |
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Hora Nui 15 |
16 |
17 (260) |
18 |
19 (*182) |
20 |
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ºSeptember
11 |
12 (*175) |
13 |
14 |
15 (258) |
16 |
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'August 19 |
20 (*152) |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 (236) |
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"August 5 (*137) |
6 |
7 |
8 (220) |
9 |
10 |
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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 |
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0h (365.25) |
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Caph,
SIRRAH
(0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8) |
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Tarahao 16 (75 = 31 + 28 + 16) |
17 (365 + 31 + 29 + 17 = 442) |
18 (77 = 443
- 366) |
19 (444) |
20 (445) |
21 (80 = 446 - 366) |
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ºMarch 13 |
3-14 (73) |
15 |
16 |
17 (*360) |
18 (77) |
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'February 18
(414) |
19 (50) |
20 (*336) |
21 |
22 |
Terminalia |
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"February 4
(400) |
5 (36) |
6 |
7 |
8 (*324) |
9 |
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Ga5-10 |
Ga5-11 (121) |
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Pálida (184.6), Megrez (184.9) |
Hasta-13 /
Chariot-28 |
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GIENAH
(185.1), ε Muscae (185.2),
ζ Crucis
(185.4), Zaniah (185.9) |
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Hora Nui 21 (*184) |
Equinox
(265) |
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ºSeptember 17 (*180) |
18 (261) |
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'August 25
(237) |
26 (*158) |
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"August 11
(*143) |
12 (224) |
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Uttara Bhādrapadā-27
/
Wall-14 |
χ Pegasi
(2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) |
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ALGENIB PEGASI
(1.8) |
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Tarahao
22 (81 = 31 + 28 + 22) |
23 (448 = 366 + 82) |
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ºMarch 19 (78 = 443 - 365) |
20 (444 = 365 + 31 + 28 + 20) |
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Bissextum
(55 = *340 + 80 - 365) |
'Feburary 25
(55 = 22 * 5 / 2) |
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"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.
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Throwing stick? |
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Phoenician
gimel |
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Greek gamma |
Γ (γ) |
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...
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). |
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Manacle |
ziqq |
Phoenician zayin |
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Greek zeta |
Ζ (ζ) |
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... 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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