6-7. When in
November 25 the Full Moon (ideally) reached the right
ascension line connected with Antares (the Entrance Pillar) this
should have reminded people of the equinox position of Antares
as it had been 64
precessional days earlier, in the Golden Age of the Bull:
May 21 |
22 (142) |
23 |
24 |
25
(145, *65) |
26 |
Nov 19 |
20 (324, *244) |
21 (325) |
22 |
23 |
24 |
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Ea6-11 |
Ea6-12 |
Ea6-13 |
Ea6-14 |
Ea6-15 |
Ea6-16 |
koia - hoko henua - hakatupu |
mauga - ko koe - henua |
tagata - he taau - kiore |
hokohuki - kiore |
Tupu.
1. Shoot, sprout, bud; to sprout, to bud. 2.
Pregnant: vî'e tupu (o te poki); to be conceived
(of fetus in its mother's womb): he-tupu te poki i
roto i te kopú o toona matu'a. Vanaga. To grow, to
sprout, to germinate, to come forth, to conceive,
pregnant, germ; mea tupu, plant; tupu ke avai,
of rapid growth; tupu horahorau, precocious;
hakatupu, to produce, to stimulate growth, to
excite. P Pau.: fakatupu, to raise up, to create.
Mgv.: tupu, to grow, to conceive, to be pregnant.
Mq.: tupu, to grow, to sprout, to conceive. Ta.:
tupu, to grow, to sprout. Churchill. Mgv.:
Tupu, the best or worst, used of men or of bad
qualities. Sa.: tupu, king. Ma.: tupu,
social position, dignity. Churchill. |
REVERSED NAKSHATRA
→ CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
16h (243.5)
ACRAB (Scorpion) =
β
Scorpii,
JABHAT AL ACRAB (Forehead of the Scorpion) =
ω
Scorpii
(243.3),
θ
Lupi,
RUTILICUS =
β
Herculis
(243.5),
MARFIK (Elbow) =
κ
Herculis
(243.7),
φ
Herculis (243.8) |
ψ
Scorpii (244.6),
LESATH (Sting) =
ν
Scorpii
(244.8) |
χ
Scorpii (245.1),
YED PRIOR (Hand in Front) =
δ
Ophiuchi,
δ
Tr.
Austr. (245.5) |
YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) =
ε
Ophiuchi,
RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) =
τ
Herculis
(246.6).
δ
Apodis (246.7),
ο
Scorpii (246.8) |
Heart-5 (Fox)
σ
Scorpii
(247.0),
HEJIAN =
γ
Herculis
(247.2),
ψ
Ophiuchi (247.7) |
ρ
Ophiuchi (248.1),
KAJAM (Club) =
ω
Herculis
(248.3),
χ
Ophiuchi (248.5),
SHE LOW (Market Tower) =
υ
Ophiuchi,
Tr.
Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) |
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May 27 |
28 (148, *68) |
29 |
30 |
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Ea6-17 |
Ea6-18 |
Ea6-19 |
Ea6-20 (198) |
tagata mau - moa |
te honu paka |
moa |
kua kau |
Paka.
1. Dry; to become dry (of things);
pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the
name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes
of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass
without getting one's feet wet. 2. To go, to depart;
he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they
go away. 3. To become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te
tai. Pakahera, skull, shell, cranium;
pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera
pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Gutu pakapaka,
scabbed lips. Hau paka, fibres of the hauhau
tree, which were first soaked in water, then dried to
produce a strong thread. Moa gao verapaka,
chicken with bald neck. Ariki Paka, certain
collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who
exercised religious functions. Vanaga. 1. Crust, scab,
scurf; paka rerere, cancer; pakapaka,
crust, scabby. 2. Calm, still. 3. Intensive; vera
paka, scorching hot; marego paka, bald;
nunu paka, thin. 4. To arrive, to come. 5. To be
eager. 6. To absorb. 7. Shin T. Pakahera,
calabash, shell, jug. Pakahia, to clot, curdle,
coagulate. Pakapaka, dry, arid, scorching hot,
cooked too much, a desert, to fade away, to roast, a
cake, active; toto pakapaka, coagulated blood;
hakapakapaka, to dry, to broil, to toast.
Pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish.
Churchill. Kau. 1. To move one's feet
(walking or swimming); ana oho koe, ana kau i te
va'e, ka rava a me'e mo kai, if you go and move your
feet, you'll get something to eat; kakau (or also
kaukau), move yourself swimming. 2. To spread (of
plants): ku-kau-áte kumara, the sweet potatoes
have spread, have grown a lot. 3. To swarm, to mill
around (of people): ku-kau-á te gagata i mu'a i tou
hare, there's a crowd of people milling about in
front of your house. 4. To flood (of water after the
rain): ku-kau-á te vai haho, the water has
flooded out (of a container such as a taheta). 5.
To increase, to multiply: ku-kau-á te moa, the
chickens have multiplied. 6. Wide, large: Rano Kau, 'Wide
Crater' (name of the volcano in the southwest corner of
the island). 7. Expression of admiration: kau-ké-ké!
how big! hare kau-kéké! what a big house!
tagata hakari kau-kéké! what a stout man! Vanaga. To
bathe, to swim; hakakau, to make to swim. P Pau.,
Mgv., Mq.: kau, to swim. Ta.: áu, id.
Kauhaga, swimming. Churchill. The
stem kau does not appear independently in any
language of Polynesian proper. For tree and for timber
we have the composite lakau
in various stages of transformation. But kau will
also be found as an initial
component of various tree names. It is in Viti that we
first find it in free existence. In Melanesia this form
is rare. It occurs as kau in Efaté, Sesake, Epi,
Nguna, and perhaps may be preserved in Aneityum; as
gau in Marina; as au in Motu and somewhere in
the Solomon islands. The triplicity of the Efaté forms [kasu,
kas, kau] suggests a possible transition.
Kasu and kas are easy to be correlated,
kasu and kau less easy. They might be linked
by the assumption of a parent form kahu, from
which each might derive. This would appear in modern
Samoan as kau; but I have found it the rule that
even the mildest aspirate in Proto-Samoan becoming
extinct in modern Samoan is yet retained as aspiration
in Nuclear Polynesia and as th in Viti, none of
which mutations is found on this record. Churchill 2 |
REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
Nov 25 (329, *249) |
26 |
27 |
28 |
Al Kalb-16 (The Heart)
/
Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) /
ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)
ANTARES = α Scorpii
(249.1),
MARFIK (Elbow) = λ Ophiuchi,
φ Ophiuchi (249.5), ω Ophiuchi (249.8) |
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr.
(250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) |
HAN = ζ Ophiuchi
(251.0) |
ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis
(252.5) |
SEPT 22 (*185) |
23 |
24 |
25
(*188) |
... Antares, visible
in the morning sky of December-January, came to stand
for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks
(ripens) all fruit' [hakatupu].
The generally accepted version of the Rehua myth,
according to Best, is that Rehua had two wives,
the stars on either side of Antares. One was
Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the
personification of summer languor (ruhi), the
other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce
before the new crops can be harvested ...
... Antares is
visible in the sky all night around May 31 of each year,
when the star is at opposition to the Sun. At this time,
Antares rises at dusk and sets at dawn. For
approximately two to three weeks on either side of
November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky,
because it is near conjunction with the Sun; this period
of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere
than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's
declination is significantly south of the celestial
equator ...
Rerehu,
Burning; a Maori name for Antares related to Rehua.
Rerehu presided over the sixth month
November-December in Stowell's enumeration, while
Tregear associated Rerehu with the ninth month,
February-March. Rehu is found in the Hawaiian
star and month name Welehu, the Tuamotuan
Herehu, and in the Rehu, Varehu, and
Avarahu of the Society Islands ... Herehu
is a Tuamotuan star whose name suggests the Maori
Rerehu and Rehua and the Marquesan Ehua,
all names for Antares. The Hawaiian equivalent lehu
is found in the star name Lehuakona,
Lehua-of-the-south. Rehu is seen in such month
names a Serehu of Tongareva, Welehu of
Hawaii, and Rehu and Varehu of the Society
Islands ... Waerehu is listed as a Maori star and
was a name for Antares among the Moriori as well as for
the month of January.
Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv.,
uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2.
Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P
Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu,
to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise.
Churchill.
Rehu.
1. Dust. P Mgv.: rehu, a cinder, coal,
ashes. Mq.: éhuahi, ashes. Ta.: rehu,
ashes, soot, any powder. 2. To omit, to forget, to
faint. Rehurehu, to omit, omission, lost to
sight. Hakarehu, to surprise. Rehua,
unintelligible. Churchill. Mgv.: rehurehu, from
early dawn to mid morning. Ta.: rehurehu,
twilight. Mq.: ehuehu, id. Churchill. Mq.: ehu,
to fall in bits. Ma.: rehu, to split off in
chips. Ehua, Ehuo, a large constellation.
Ma.: rehua, a star or planet, probably Jupiter.
Churchill. |
SEPTEMBER 25 was half a year after MARCH 25, which was
the date for the Julian spring equinox.
... When I asked if I could bring one
of the archaeologists along on the promised visit to his
cave, Atan Atan was at first reluctant, but on second
thought he found that this could do no harm since the
cave was now mine and would be emptied anyhow. The
objects, however, were to be taken directly on board the
ship and not shown to anyone before we left the island.
Whatever was said and done afterwards would not matter
to him, he added. The stone
skull with the peculiar pits on top brought to mind a
small and crude stone cranium already found
archaeologically behind the Vinapu temple plaza
on the south side of the island, and a second
examination of this piece showed much to our surprise
that here also two deep pits had been carved on the
forehead, asymmetrically on each side of the sagittalis
... Ferdon ... who conducted personal interrogations
among the Easter Islanders in his own work team at
Orongo, and who was to participate in the opening of
Atan Atan's cave, wrote: 'I later learned from quite a
different source that such depressions were for placing
ground human bone to create maximum power for this
'key', or guardian stone.' Obviously, this was not an
idea originating with Atan Atan and his cave ...
Antares was the mythical star king following Spica:
... Strassmeier and Epping, in their Astronomishes aus
Babylon, say that there its stars formed the third of the
twenty-eight ecliptic constellations, - Arku-sha-rishu-ku,
literally the Back of the Head of Ku, - which had been
established along that great circle milleniums before our era;
and Lenormant quotes, as an individual title from cuneiform
inscriptions, Dil-kar, the Proclaimer of Dawn, that
Jensen reads As-kar, and others Dil-gan, the
Messenger of Light. George Smith inferred from the tablets that
it might be the Star of the Flocks; while other
Euphratean names have been Lu-lim, or Lu-nit,
the Ram's Eye; and Si-mal or Si-mul, the Horn
star, which came down even to late astrology as the Ram's
Horn. It also was Anuv, and had its constellation's
titles I-ku and I-ku-u, - by abbreviation Ku,
- the Prince, or the Leading One, the Ram that led the heavenly
flock, some of íts titles at a different date being applied to
Capella of Auriga. Brown associates it with Aloros, the first of
the ten mythical kings of Akkad anterior to the Deluge, the
duration of whose reigns proportionately coincided with the
distances apart of the ten chief ecliptic stars beginning with
Hamal, and he deduces from this kingly title the Assyrian
Ailuv, and hence the Hebrew Ayil; the other stars
corresponding to the other mythical kings being Alcyone,
Aldebaran, Pollux, Regulus, Spica, Antares, Algenib, Deneb
Algedi, and Scheat ...
After a seed has been put down into the earth (→
Spica)
there should be ashes (ehu)
added in order to promote growth (hakatupu). I
find it natural to associate Antares with the place half a year
away from spring equinox where north of the equator the great fire in the sky (Sun)
had arrived. Antares should be the place for his ashes to be
buried.
*249 (Antares) might seem to be an odd number, but we can
assimilate it by perceiving 249 as the result of the addition 210 + 39. Which means Antares could
be associated with the 39 notches on the rim of the ancient
mammoth bone. As well as to the 39
variants of uhi stolen by Teke (the Occiput) from Ma'eha.
There was an extraordinary amount of 'folk etymology noise' connected with the
word ehu, and I
suspect the star name Rehua could have alluded to Ra-ehu,
i.e. to the ashes of Ra (the Sun).
On the other hand, south of the equator a more reasonable
explanation could be Ra'e-hu, Wind at the Forehead (of
the Scorpion) → 16h ↔ 8h.
Rae. First (always
follows the noun): te tagata ra'e, the first man; (the
other ordinal numerals, second, third, etc., precede the noun.
Translator's note: ra'e is likely the noun which means
forehead, face, in other Polynesian language, e.g. Tahitian
rae). Vanaga. 1. Commencement, beginning, to strike up, to
essay, to occasion, to proceed, former, primitive, precedent,
predecessor, first-fruits; rae ki te mea hou, to
innovate; oho rae, to march at the head; tagata rae,
advance guard, van; raega, commencement, beginning,
occasion, first-fruits. 2. To attack, to provoke; kakai rae,
toua rae, to provoke. Churchill.
... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the
oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the
god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod,
the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the
relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who
is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa.
She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin,
not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded
in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English
'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four
main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole
direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...
This construction (Ra'e-hu) could in turn have been an
adaptation of the Hindu idea of Rahu:
... In Hindu
tradition, Rahu is a cut-off head of an asura, that
swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses. He is depicted in
art as a serpent with no body riding a chariot drawn by eight
[8] black horses ... According to legend, during the Samudra
manthan, the asura Rahu drank some of the divine
nectar. Sun and moon realized it and they alerted Mohini
(the female avatar of Vishnu). Before the nectar could
pass his throat, Mohini cut off his head. The head,
however, remained immortal. It is believed that this immortal
head occasionally swallows the sun or the moon, causing
eclipses. Then, the sun or moon passes through the opening at
the neck, ending the eclipse
...
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