6. In Polynesia bow and arrow were playthings for the children, while warriors used spears. And originally Balder may have been killed by a spear and not by an arrow:
In this 18th century picture from an Icelandic manuscript a peculiarly formed spear is used to pierce the breast of Balder. It is bent and beyond the handle divided into 2 blades which diverge at the end. The G text has vero signs in 2 places, we have seen (cfr e.g. Kava, Vero, The Arrow of Time, Algol, Auriga): ... My rule of thumb, which says a repetition entails the opposite, holds true here too. Vero indicates death as from a spear, while verovero means the life connected with stars that twinkle, colours, rays, and beams, notably also the light streaming from a brand of fire thrown into the air ... ... Tane (the god of trees and light) indeed had 2 spears:
... At winter solstice Sun (the arrow) is standing still as if dead. However, a quick hurl of a spear towards him has the potential to wake him up: ... as soon as the king lands, and has thrown off his cloak, he darts his spear at him, from a distance of about thirty paces, and the king must either catch the spear in his hand, or suffer from it: there is no jesting in the business ... ... Maybe we now can better understand this myth retold in Hamlet's Mill: As concerns the removing of the Pole star, the most drastic version is told by the Lapps: When Arcturus (alpha Bootis, supposed to be an archer, Ursa Major being his bow) shoots down the North Nail with his arrow on the last day, the heaven will fall, crushing the earth and setting fire to everything. - U. Holmberg, Finno-Ugric and Siberian Mythology (1964), p. 221. See the drawing made by J. Turi in Das Buch des Lappen Turi (1912), plate XIV: Arcturus = Faytna, Polaris/North Nail = Boaje-naste, or Bohinavlle ... Sagittarius and his antipodal lady archer are there, it seems, in order to remove the star which so far has ruled a cardinal point in time. When the Hawaiian king was threatened by a spear (vero) once a year it was a rehearsal down on earth of how the Sun King (the ruling star) was threatened to be removed from his position in the sky. Once upon a time the Sun King was located high above at the north pole but in the present era he arrives at spring equinox each year, this I dimly perceive as a possible interpretation of a difficult subject ... ... We can imagine the π stars delineating a skin with its hairy side towards the lower right ascension stars, so that Aldebaran could illuminate its front side. The back side of the skin would arrive around 5h (with Capella rising 13m later).
On the other hand, the π stars could once - at an even earlier time - have illustrated the outline of a bow, because once Orion was regarded as a hunter. With his bow he could have 'killed' the night (winter), and this idea could have been the origin of similar later such images (cfr e.g. Sagittarius and the Polynesian vero). At Crux it was noted:
At the time of G the dates would have arrived 1 glyph later, with e.g. Ga5-17 in 'September 28. The following henua has a dot in front and 51 * 8 = 408.
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