5. First, though, one more set of reflections regarding G. Hedghogs often dwell in hedges and such are found between the fields. There could be a 'field' ending after 399 days, the synodic cycle defined by Jupiter (Father Light).
... The middle (te tini) was located in front of the bay of Hanga Rua ...
My alternative reading, relying on the method to count days forward all the way to the end of side b, has the June solstice in the middle (te tini) of the group of 12 days ending with glyph 399:
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| Gb6-5 |
Gb6-6 |
Gb6-7 |
Gb6-8 |
Gb6-9 |
Gb6-10 |
| γ Leporis (85.9), Saiph (86.5) |
ζ Leporis (86.6) |
Wezn (87.6), δ Leporis (87.7), Betelgeuze (88.3) |
η Leporis (89.0), Praja-pāti, Menkalinan, Mahashim, and γ Columbae (89.3) |
η Columbae (89.7), μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5) |
ν Orionis (91.4) |
| June 15 (166) |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
6h (91.3) |
| Albatain 3 (30) |
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| Gb6-11 |
Gb6-12 |
Gb6-13 |
Gb6-14 |
Gb6-15 |
Gb6-16 |
| ξ Orionis (92.5) |
Tejat Prior (93.3) |
κ Aurigae (93.6) |
Furud (94.9), Tejat Posterior, Mirzam (95.4) |
Canopus (95.6), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9) |
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| June 21 (172) |
22 |
St John's Eve |
St John's Day |
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26 (177) |
| Albatain 9 |
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13 (40) |
Al Tuwaibe' 1 |
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| Gb6-17 (400) |
Gb6-18 |
Gb6-19 |
Gb6-20 (*101) |
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ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) |
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5) |
Mebsuta (100.7), Sirius (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4) |
| June 27 |
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29 (180) |
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| Al Tuwaibe' 2 |
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5 (45) |
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| Gb6-21 (404) |
Gb6-22 |
Gb6-23 |
Gb6-24 |
| ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7), τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) |
ψ8 Aurigae (103.2) |
Alhena (103.7), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) |
Adara (104.8), ω Gemini (105.4) |
| July 1 |
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4 (185) |
| Al Tuwaibe' 6 |
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9 (49) |
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| Gb6-25 (408) |
Gb6-26 (*107) |
Gb6-27 |
Gb6-28 |
| Alzirr (105.7), Muliphein (105.8) |
Wezen (107.1) |
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| July 5 |
7h (106.5) |
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| Al Tuwaibe' 10 |
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12 (52) |
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I have redmarked Canopus and Sirius because the heliacal rising of these stars could be used to define the 5 days when new 'fire' was created. They could be useful for locating where Nuku Kehu would pound his 'hedge' of maro feather garland staffs into the ground. Al Tuwaibe' (the first manzil beyond Albatain) is ruled by Aldebaran and Gregorian day 177 (= 6 * 29½) coincides with the manzil date Al Tuwaibe' 1. At gagana in Gb6-16 we should count 61 * 6 = 366.
| Gaga Exhausted, strengthless, to faint. Vanaga. To faint, to fall in a swoon, death struggle. Gagata, crowd, multitude, people, population. Churchill.
Mgv.: A bird. Mq.: kaka, id. Churchill.
Pau.: Gagahere, herbs, grass. Ta.: aaihere, herbs, bush. Ma.: ngahere, forest. Pau.: Gagaoa, confused noise. Ta.: aaoaoa, noise of a rising assembly. Churchill. |
| '... the progeny of Tu increased: Rongo, Tane, Tangaroa, Rongomai, Kahukura, Tiki, Uru, Ngangana, Io, Iorangi, Waiorangi, Tahu, Moko, Maroro, Wakehau, Tiki, Toi, Rauru, Whatonga - these were the sons ...' (Moriori myth of creation accoding to Legends of the South Seas.) |
The quartet of 'hedgehogs' (Ga6-21--24) could be followed by a quartet of 'tagata', although the fellow at 7h (at Wezen, the weight) will then have been disguised to play the role of Rogo.
Henua at Sirius is of the 'midnight' (raaraa) type:
... The 'fake' day of earth in the middle of the night is in rongorongo written in another way than the normal earth (henua) sign, viz. with 'indented' (like bite marks) short ends:
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... It is time to give this 'midnight henua' a genuine glyph type label, and I have chosen it to be raaraa:
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raaraa |
| rectangular field (?) |
d:o inundated (?) |
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midnight (?) |
| Raa
Sun; day; i te raá nei, today; raá îka, good day for fishing. Vanaga.
1. Sun. 2. Day. 3. Time. 4. Name of sub-tribe. Fischer.
Te manu i te raá = comet. Barthel.
'... The substitution of the sun for the sail, both of which are called ra or raa in Polynesia, is a remarkable feature in Easter Island art... ' Heyerdahl 3.
1. The sun; raa ea mai, raa puneki, sunrise; raa tini, raa toa, noon. P Mgv., Ta.: ra, the sun. Mq.: a, id. 2. Day, date; a raa nei a, to-day, now; raa i mua, day before. P Mgv., Ta.: ra, a day. Mq.: a, id. Churchill.
'... The chief thus makes his appearance at Lakeba from the sea, as a stranger to the land. Disembarking at the capital village of Tubou, he is led first to the chiefly house (vale levu) and next day to the central ceremonial ground (raaraa) of the island ...' (Islands of History)
Ta.: toraaraa, to raise up. Churchill 2. |
... Raaraa is the negative of raa, i.e. it is the opposite of day (Sun, etc). The sails of the Sun boat have been pulled down ...
The central ceremonial ground (marae) of a Polynesian island is connected with the cycle of Sun:
"By the time of our meeting she [Hertha von Dechend] had shifted her attention to Polynesia, and soon she hit pay dirt. As she looked into the archaeological remains on many islands, a clue was given to her. The moment of grace came when, on looking (on a map) at two little islands, mere flyspecks on the waters of the Pacific, she found that a strange accumulation of maraes or cult places could be explained only one way: they, and only they, were both exactly sited on two neat celestial coordininates: the Tropics of Cancer and of Capricorn." (Hamlet's Mill)
And the central ceremonial ground is also connected with Rogo (Rongo-marae-roa):
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"If I am allowed to lift a page from The Golden Bough: each year the sylvan landscape of old New Zealand provided 'the scene of a strange and recurring tragedy.' In a small sweet-potato garden set apart for the god, a Maori priest enacted a sacred marriage that would be worthy of his legendary colleague of the grove of Nemi. Accompanying his movements with a chant that included the phrase, 'Be pregnant, be pregnant', the priest planted the first hillocks (puke, also 'mons veneris') of the year's crop. The priest plays the part of the god Rongo (-marae-roa, Ha., Lono), he who originally brought the sweet potato in his penis from the spiritual homeland, to impregnate his wife (Pani, the field).
During the period of growth, no stranger will be suffered to disturb the garden. But at the harvest, Rongo's possession is contested by another god, Tuu (-matauenga) - ancestor of man 'as tapu warrior' - in a battle sometimes memorialized as the origin of war itself.
Using an unworked branch of the mapou tree - should we not thus say, a bough broken from a sacred tree? - a second priest, representing Tuu, removes, binds up, and then reburies the first sweet-potato tubers. He so kills Rongo, the god, parent and body of the sweet potato, or else puts him to sleep, so that man may harvest the crop to his own use. Colenso's brilliant Maori informant goes on to the essentials of the charter myth:
Rongo-marae-roa [Rongo as the sweet potato] with his people were slain by Tu-matauenga [Tuu as warrior] ...
Tu-matauenga also baked in an oven and ate his elder brother Rongo-marae-roa so that he was wholly devoured as food.
Now the plain interpretation, or meaning of these names in common words, is, that Rongo-marae-roa is the kumara [sweet potato], and that Tu-matauenga is man."
"...the Hawaiian staple, taro, is the older brother of mankind, as indeed all useful plants and animals are immanent forms of the divine ancestors - so many kino lau or 'myriad bodies' of the gods. Moreover, to make root crops accessible to man by cooking is precisely to destroy what is divine in them: their autonomous power, in the raw state, to reproduce."
"...the aggressive transformation of divine life into human substance describes the mode of production as well as consumption - even as the term for 'work' (Ha., hana) does service for 'ritual'. Fishing, cultivating, constructing a canoe, or, for that matter, fathering a child are so many ways that men actively appropriate 'a life from the god'."
"Man, then, lives by a kind of periodic deicide. Or, the god is separated from the objects of human existence by acts of piety that in social life would be tantamount to theft and violence - not to speak of cannibalism.
'Be thou undermost, / While I am uppermost', goes a Maori incantation to the god accompanying the offering of cooked food; for as cooked food destroys tabu, the propitiation is at the same time a kind of pollution - i.e., of the god.
The aggressive relation to divine beings helps explain why contact with the sacred is extremely dangerous to those who are not themselves in a tabu state. Precisely, then, these Polynesians prefer to wrest their existence from the god under the sign and protection of a divine adversary. They put on Tuu (Kuu), god of warriors. Thus did men learn how to oppose the divine in its productive and peaceful aspect of Rongo (Lono). In their ultimate relations to the universe, including the relations of production and reproduction, men are warriors."
"...the Hawaiians had a sweet-potato ritual of the same general structure as the Maori cycle. It was used in the 'fields of Kamapua'a', name of the pig-god said by some to be a form of Lono, whose rooting in the earth is a well-known symbol of virile action. While the crops were growing, the garden was tabu, so that the pig could do his inseminating work. No one was allowed to throw stones into the garden, thrust a stick into it, or walk upon it - curious prohibitions, except that they amount to protection against human attack. If the garden thus belonged to Lono, at the harvest the first god invoked was Kuu-kuila, 'Ku-the-striver'."
(Marshall Sahlins, Islands of History.) |
The bay Hanga Rua (Bay of the Pit) seems to be the opposite of the bay Hanga Rau (Bay of Plenty).
| Rau Rau 1. (Also: raupá) leaf of a plant, stem and leaves. 2. Hundred: e tahi te rau, e rua te rau, etc., 100, 200... Also seems to have been used in the meaning of 'many'. Tu'u henua rau, someone who has travelled to many countries (such were called in the 19th century natives who had travelled abroad, employed as sailors). Compare with: tai raurau-á riki. Vanaga.
Rau hei. 1. Branch of mimosa. 2. Killed enemy. 3. Hanged 'fish'. 'Branche du mimosa (signe de mort), ennemie túe (poisson suspendu)' according to Jaussen. Barthel.
Ra'u 1. To take something without the owner's permission; to seize something forcibly. 2. Ra'u maahu, ancient expression, literally: to appropriate the steam (maahu) of the food just taken out of an earth oven. It refers to intruders coming to help themselves uninvited. Warriors off to a battle used to be told: E ra'u maahu no koe, o pagaha'a! meaning: 'Eat little, lest you be heavy (and lose your agility).' Vanaga.
1. Sa.: la'u, to clear off, to carry away; la'u mai, to bring. Uvea: laku, to send, to throw into. Ha.: laulau, a bundle, a bag; a wrapper of a bundle, the netting in which food is carried; lalau, to seize, to catch hold of. 2. To.: lau, lalau, lauji, to pinch with the fingers, to nip. Ha.: lau, to feel after a thing; lalau, to extend (as the hand), to seize, to catch hold of. 3. Sa.: lau, a leaf; lalau, to be in leaf; laulau, a food tray plaited from a coconut leaf, to set out food on such a tray or on a table. To.: lau, lou, a leaf; laulau, a tray. Fu., Uvea, Nuguria: lau, a leaf. Niuē: lau, a leaf; laulau, a table. Ha.: lau, a leaf; laulau, the netting in which food is carried. Ma., Ta., Rarotonga, Rapanui, Paumotu, Nukuoro, Fotuna: rau, a leaf. Mgv.: rau, rou, id. Mq.: au, ou, id. Churchill 2.
Ta.: rauhuru, dry banana leaf. Mq.: auhuu, id. (To.: hulu, leaves dry and dead.) Ha.: lauhulu, banana leaf. Churchill. |
| Rua 1. Two; second; other (precedes the noun); te rua paiga, the other side. 2. Hole, grave; holes in the rocks or between the rocks of the coastal lagoons; he keri i te rua, to dig a hole. 3. To vomit. Vanaga.
1. Two. P Mgv., Ta.: rua, id. Mq.: úa. 2. Nausea, seasickness, to vomit, disgust; hakarua, to vomit, to spew. PS Mgv.: aruai, ruai, to vomit. Mq.: úa, id. Ta.: ruai, id. Pau.: ruaki, id. Sa.: lua'i, to spit out of the mouth; lulua, to vomit. To.: lua to vomit. Fu.: lulua, luaki, id. Niuē: lua, id. Viti: lua, id.; loloa, seasick. 3. Cave, hollow, ditch, pit, hole, beaten path, grave; rua papaka, a ditch. P Pau.: rua, a hole. Mgv.: rua, a hole in the ground, ditch, trench. Mq.: úa, dish, hole, cavern. Ta.: rua, hole, opening, ditch. Churchill.
Ta.: ruahine, an old woman. Ma.: ruahine, id. Ta.: ruaroa, tropic of Capricorn. Mq.: uaoa, a constellation, the eleventh month. The sense in Tahiti is probably that of some constellation which may be used to determine the position. Ta.: ruau, an old man, an old woman. Ha.: luau, a parent. Churchill. |
At ξ Orionis there is a pregnant mago with a tail which could spell rua. 14 days later comes Alzirr (ξ Gemini). The quiet days when the old year decays, the winter solstice (marua-roa), could be centered on day 45 in the manzil calendar, the day when Sirius rose heliacally in rongorongo times.
| Maru Samoa: malū, gentle, easy, soft. Tonga: malu, loose, soft, mild, easy. Uvea, Nukuoro: malu, tender, soft. Hawaii: malu, quiet. Futuna: malŭ, tender. Nuguria: maru, soft. Tahiti: maru, soft, gentle, easy. Paumotu: hakamaru, to grow milder. Rapanui: maruaki, to decay. Churchill 2.
Maru a Pó in Tahiti was another [in addition to Ovakevake, Hiva and Maori] 'place where ákuáku supposedly lived before coming here'. Vanaga.
The Maori used the same word for both solstices, marua-roa, 'long pit', and applied the term also to the month or season during which the Sun passed through its most northerly or southerly declination. A qualifying word such as takurua, 'winter', or o-rongo-nui, 'summer', was usually appended to denote which solstice was meant. When no explanatory word was added marua-roa seems to have signified the winter solstice... Makemson.
Viti: malua, to go gently, to be in no hurry, by-and-by; vakamalua, gently. Churchill 2.
Maruaki, to feel hungry, to be starving, hunger; he-topa te maruaki, to feel hungry. Vanaga.
Maruaki, appetite, desire to eat, greedy, hunger, fasting, famine, weak from hunger, dearth, stavation; hakamaruaki, to starve; we note in Motu maro, famine, dearth. Churchill.
Maruaki, to decay. Churchill 2.
Marumaru, shady; ka-oho ki te kona marumaru, go in the shade. Vanaga.
Marumaru, shade, thicket, somber, umbrella; koona marumaru, sheltered spot, copse; hakamaru, to cover with shade; hakamarumaru, to shade. P Pau.: hakamaru, to shadow. Mgv.: maru, shade, shadow, obscurity. Mq.: maú, shade, shadow, shelter. Ta.: maru, shade. Churchill. |
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Ka2-16 |
Ka2-17 (36) |
Ka2-18 (*101) |
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ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) |
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5) |
Mebsuta (100.7), Sirius (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4) |
| June 27 |
28 |
29 (180) |
30 |
| Al Tuwaibe' 2 |
3 |
4 (44) |
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| Ka2-19 |
Ka2-20 |
Ka2-21 (40) |
Ka2-22 |
| ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7), τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) |
ψ8 Aurigae (103.2) |
Alhena (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) |
Adara (104.8), ω Gemini (105.4) |
| July 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (185) |
| Al Tuwaibe' 6 |
7 |
8 |
9 (49) |
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| Ka3-1 |
Ka3-2 |
Ka3-3 (*108) |
Ka3-4 |
Ka3-5 (46) |
| Alzirr (105.7), Muliphein (105.8) |
Wezen (107.1) |
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Wasat (109.8), Mekbuda (110.5) |
| July 5 |
7h (106.5) |
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8 |
9 (190) |
| Al Tuwaibe' 10 |
11 |
12 (52) |
13 |
Heka 1 |
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