10-5. The Explorers went home
10 days after October 15. Eb1-9 +
10 = Eb1-19:
Oct 15
(288) |
16 |
17 |
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Eb1-9 |
Eb1-10 |
Eb1-11 |
te tagata - te kihikihi |
vai oka hia |
e rima o te ariki |
Kihi. Kihikihi,
lichen; also: grey, greenish grey, ashen.
Vanaga. Kihikihi, lichen T, stone T.
Churchill. The Hawaiian
day was divided in three general parts, like
that of the early Greeks and Latins, -
morning, noon, and afternoon - Kakahi-aka,
breaking the shadows, scil. of night;
Awakea, for Ao-akea, the plain
full day; and Auina-la, the decline
of the day. The
lapse of the night, however, was noted by
five stations, if I may say so, and four
intervals of time, viz.: (1.) Kihi,
at 6 P.M., or about sunset; (2.) Pili,
between sunset and midnight; (3) Kau,
indicating midnight; (4.) Pilipuka,
between midnight and surise, or about 3
A.M.; (5.) Kihipuka, corresponding to
sunrise, or about 6 A.M. ... (Fornander)
Oka.
1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the
ground with a sharpened stick, as was done
in ancient times to plant vegetables; used
generally in the meaning of making
plantations. 2. The four sideways poles
supporting a hare paega. Okaoka,
to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly.
Vanaga. Digging stick, stake, joist; to
prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to
drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate;
kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka,
a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick,
to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.
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τ
Bootis (208.2),
BENETNASH (Leader of the Daughters of the
Bier) =
η
Ursae Majoris
(208.5),
ν Centauri (208.7),
μ
Centauri,
υ
Bootis (208.8) |
No star listed (209) |
MUPHRID (Solitary Star) = η Bootis
(210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) |
No star listed (25) |
ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)
χ
Ceti (26.1),
POLARIS =
α
Ursae Minoris,
BATEN KAITOS (Belly of the Fish) =
ζ
Ceti
(26.6),
METALLAH =
α
Trianguli
(26.9) |
Al Sharatain-1
/
Ashvini-1
/
Bond-16 (Dog)
/
Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of
Ku)
SEGIN =
ε
Cassiopeia,
MESARTHIM =
γ
Arietis,
ψ
Phoenicis (27.2),
SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) =
β
Arietis,
φ
Phoenicis (27.4)
*351.0 = *27.4 - *41.4 |
Oct 18 |
19 (292) |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
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Eb1-12 |
Eb1-13 |
Eb1-14 |
Eb1-15 |
Eb1-16 |
Eb1-17 |
tagata haga i te kihikihi |
vai o ura hia |
toki |
te heu |
te toki |
te henua |
Ura, lobster. Ûra,
flame, blaze (ûra ahi), to become
furious (with manava as subject:
ku-ûra-á te manava). Úraúra,
bright red. Vanaga. 1. Crayfish, lobster,
prawn. P Mgv.: ura, crayfish. Mq.:
uá, lobster. Ta.: oura, crayfish,
lobster. 2. Fire, burning, to be in flames;
uraga, combustion, flame, torch;
hakaura, to cause to glow, to kindle, to
light. P Mgv., Ta.: ura, a flame, to
burn. Mq: uá, id. Uraga,
burden, load, weight. Uraura,
vermilion, scarlet. P Pau.: kurakura,
red. Mgv.: uraura, an inflamed
countenance. Mq.: uáuá, red, ruddy.
Ta.: uraura, red. Churchill.
Vai.
Water, liquid, juice. 1. Vai tagata,
semen, sperm (also: takatea). 2.
Vai kava, saltwater, sea, ocean.
Vanaga. (Sweet) water.
Vai-kura
= blood. Barthel. 1. Water, liquid, fluid,
sap, juice, gravy, fresh water as differing
from tai seawater; hakavai to
dissolve, to liquefy, to melt. P Pau.:
ana-vai,
a brook. Mgv.:
vai, water. Mq.:
vai,
water, liquid, juice. Ta.:
vai,
sweet water, sap, juice.
Vaihu
(vai-u),
milk. T Mq., Ta.:
vaiu,
milk.
Vaipuga (vai-puna),
spring water. P Mgv.:
vaipuna,
water which springs from among stones. Mq.:
vaipuna,
spring water. Ta.:
vaipuna,
a spring.
Vaitahe (vai-tahe
1), river. 2. Pau.:
Vai,
to exist. Ta.:
vai, to be, to exist.
Vaiora,
to survive. Sa.:
vaiola,
the spring 'water of life?' Ma.:
waiora,
water of life.
Vaitoa (vai-toa
2), sugar. Mgv.:
vaito,
id. Vaituru
(vai-turu
1), water conduit.
Vaivai,
weak. PS Mq.:
vaivai, soft, pleasant,
agreeable. Sa., To.:
vaivai,
weak. Pau.:
Vaiho, to set down, to place.
Ta.: vaiiho,
to place. Ma.:
waiho, to set down. Pau.:
Hakavaivai,
to delay. Ta.:
vaivai, to rest a bit. Ta.:
Vaianu,
a plant. Mq.:
Vaimata, tears. Ha.:
waimaka,
id. Vaitahe,
a flood. Sa.:
vaitafe, a river. Ha.:
waikahe,
running water, flood.
Vaitupu,
spring water. To.:
vaitubu,
well water. Unuvai, to drink water;
hipu unuvai, drinking glass.
Churchill. Sa., Fakaafo, To., Fu., Niuē,
Uvea, Nukuoro, Ta., Rar., Tongareva, Mq.,
Mgv., Fotuna, Nuguria, Vaté: vai,
water. Rapanui: vai, juice, liquid,
water. Aniwa: vai, tavai,
water. Ma., Ha.: wai, id. Sikayana:
wai, wuai, id. Vi.: wai,
water. Rotumā: vai, voi, id.
Churchill 2. |
φ Centauri (211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ²
Centauri (211.8), τ Virginis (211.9) |
AGENA (At the Knee) =
β
Centauri
(212.1),
θ
Apodis (212.5),
THUBAN (Dragon) =
α Draconis
(212.8) |
14h (213.1)
π Hydrae, χ
Centauri (213.0),
MENKENT (Shoulder of the Centaur) =
θ
Centauri
(213.1) |
Neck-2 (Dragon)
ASELLUS TERTIUS (3rd Ass Colt) =
κ
Bootis,
κ
Virginis,
14 Bootis
(214.8) |
Al
Ghafr-13 (The Cover)
/
Svāti-15 (Very Good)
/
TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar
to stand by)
15 Bootis
(215.2),
ARCTURUS = α
Bootis (215.4),
ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) =
ι
Bootis
(215.5),
SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) =
ι
Virginis,
λ
Bootis (215.6),
η
Apodis (215.8)
*174.0 = *215.4 - *41.4 |
ι Lupi,
18 Bootis
(216.3),
KHAMBALIA (Crooked-Clawed) = λ Virginis (216.4),
υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε
Apodis (216.8)
*175.0 = *216.4 - *41.4 |
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti
(28.8) |
ALRISHA (The
Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2),
ε
Trianguli (29.4),
ALAMAK
(Caracal) = γ Andromedae
(29.7)
*353.0 = *29.4 - *41.4 |
Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)
2h (*30.4 = *354.0 + *41.4)
κ
Arietis (30.3),
HAMAL (Sheep) = α
Arietis
(30.5)
ALKES (α
Crateris) |
DELTOTUM = β Trianguli
(31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9) |
ξ¹ Ceti (32.1) |
γ,
δ
Trianguli (33.0),
χ
Persei (33.2),
10 Trianguli
(33.5),
θ
Arietis (33.3),
MIRA (Astonishing) =
ο
Ceti
(33.7) |
Oct 16 |
*3 |
Oct 19 |
*107 |
No star listed (*209) |
THUBAN (*212) |
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Eb1-10 |
Eb1-13 |
vai oka hia |
vai o ura hia |
POLARIS (*26) |
ALRISHA ('29) |
Febr 3 |
4 (400) |
21h (*319.6) |
DRAMASA (*320) |
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Eb4-26 (133
→
10 + 123) |
Eb4-27 (460
→ 320 + 140) |
... We should notice how
Metoro here was reading the glyphs
withershins. South of the equator the
water currents went 'withershins' when
they were running out of steam
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te
maro
- te vai
- te tagata |
te
henua
te kiore |
Maro: A sort of small banner or
pennant of bird feathers tied to a
stick. Maroa: 1. To stand up, to
stand. 2. Fathom (measure). See kumi.
Vanaga. Maro: 1. June. 2.
Dish-cloth T P Mgv.: maro, a
small girdle or breech clout. Ta.:
maro, girdle. Maroa: 1. A
fathom; maroa hahaga, to measure.
Mq.: maó, a fathom. 2. Upright,
stand up, get up, stop, halt. Mq.:
maó, to get up, to stand up.
Churchill. Pau.: Maro, hard,
rough, stubborn. Mgv.: maro,
hard, obdurate, tough. Ta.: mârô,
obstinate, headstrong. Sa.: mālō,
strong. Ma.: maro,
hard, stubborn. Churchill.
Ta.:
Maro,
dry, desiccated. Mq.: mao,
thirst, desiccated. Fu.: malo,
dry. Ha.: malo,
maloo,
id. Churchill.
Mgv.:
Maroro,
the flying fish. (Ta.: marara,
id.) Mq.: maoo,
id. Sa.: malolo,
id. Ma.: maroro,
id. Churchill. |
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... According to Manuscript E the
Explorers (presumably representing the nightside planets with the
exception of Mars and Saturn) returned home to
Hiva in the day named Tagaroa Uri 25,
which nominally ought to be translated into
October 25
(298), when Fomalhaut (the Mouth of the Fish)
culminated (at 21h) ...
Here we can recognize a type of glyph from earlier
encounters:
Oct 24 (*217) |
Tagaroa Uri 25 |
26 |
27 (300) |
... Ira,
Raparenga, Uure, Nonoma, and Ringiringi got up [he
ea] and left [went to, he oho] the
'Dark abyss [te poko uri] of Hau Maka'
(i.e., Rano Kau), arrived at Hanga Te Pau, put
the canoe into the water [he hoa i te
vaka], and sailed off to [went to, he oho]
Hiva, to Maori. Ira left [for Hiva, for Maori,
i ōho ai a Ira.ki hiva.ki maori] on the
twenty-fifth day of the month of October
('Tangaroa Uri') ... [E:86] |
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Eb1-18 |
Eb1-19 |
Eb1-20 |
Eb1-21 |
tagata |
ku hoea mai |
te poporo |
te hatu |
April 24 |
Vaitu Nui 25 |
26 (*36) |
27 (117) |
... On the
twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu
Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail;
on the first day of June ('Maro'), the
bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the
distant horizon, came closer and closer on its
course, and sailed along, and finally (one)
could see the (new home) land ... [E:17] |
In the G text, we remember, this kind of glyph
(a variant of my type hoea) had been
placed in the day before
the compressed
calendar, measuring 123 glyphs - equal to the
number of signs imprinted on the top side of the
Phaistos disc.
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hoea |
Ga2-26 |
Comparison with a similar glyph in the C text
reveals a possible connection with the Eagle:
Here the Milky Way could be observed to be
'uplifted' (as if in the claws of an eagle).
Similarly the front of Cetus was depicted as raising
himself up onto
dry land (the reverse of the Goatfish).
... There is a couple
residing in one place named Kui and
Fakataka. After the couple stay together for
a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go
away because they wish to go to another place -
they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind
roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui
expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka
swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes
there and stays on the upraised reef in the
freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers
her child, a boy child ...
... At length there appeared
beside them the gable and thatched roof of the
house of Tonganui, and not only the house, but a
huge piece of the land attached to it. The
brothers wailed, and beat their heads, as they
saw that Maui had fished up land, Te Ika a
Maui, the fish of Maui. And there were
houses on it, and fires burning, and people
going about their daily tasks. Then Maui hitched
his line round one of the paddles laid under a
pair of thwarts, and picked up his maro,
and put it on again.
'Now while I'm away,' he said, 'show some common
sense and don't be impatient. Don't eat food
until I come back, and whatever you do don't
start cutting up the fish until I have found a
priest and made an offering to the gods, and
completed all the necessary rites. When I get
back it will be all right to cut him up, and
we'll share him out equally then. What we cannot
take with us will keep until we come back for it.'
Maui then returned to their
village. But as soon as his back was turned his
brothers did the very things that he had told
them not to. They began to eat food, which was a
sacrilege because no portion had yet been
offered to the gods. And they started to scale
the fish and cut bits off it. When they did
this, Maui had not yet reached the sacred place
and the presence of the gods. Had he done so,
all the male and female deities would have been
appeased by the promise of portions of the fish,
and Tangaroa would have been content. As it was
they were angry, and they caused the fish of
Maui to writhe and lash about like any other
fish. That is the reason why this land,
Aotearoa, is now so rough and mountainous
and much of it so unuseful to man. Had the
brothers done as Maui told them it would have
lain smooth and flat, an example to the world of
what good land should be. But as soon as the sun
rose above the horizon the writhing fish of Maui
became solid underfoot, and could not be
smoothed out again. This act of Maui's, that
gave our people the land on which we live, was
an event next in greatness to the separation of
the Sky and Earth ...
Indeed, it could be imagined
that it was the head of the Sea Beast which
pushed Aries high (at the same time causing the
band from Alrisha to the pair of Fishes go
slack):
After that the calendar for the year (the fish
of Maui) was no longer
smooth and flat, it had become rough and
mountainous and it now measured only 123
right ascension days. 364 - 123 = 241.
Side b on the G
tablet carries 241 glyphs and so does the
pair of sides together on the
Phaistos disc.
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