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The bird list ended at the Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses.

... In labouring to apprehend (lit. exhaust) patterns fully, we are not necessitated to attempt an exhaustive and complete research into the patterns of all the myriad phenomena in the world. Nor can we attain our aim by fully apprehending only a single one of these patterns. It is simply necessary to accumulate (lit. pile up and tie together, chi lei) a large number (of phenomena). Then (the patterns) will become visible spontaneously ...

... They dug a grave, dug it very deep, and lined it with stones (he paenga). When that was done, they lowered the dead into the grave. Tuu Maheke took it upon himself to cover the area where the head lay. Tuu Maheke said, 'Don't cover the head with coarse soil (oone hiohio)'. They finished the burial and sat down. Night came, midnight came, and Tuu Maheke said to his brother, the last-born: 'You go and sleep. It is up to me to watch over the father.' (He said) the same to the second, the third, and the last. When all had left, when all the brothers were asleep, Tuu Maheke came and cut off the head of Hotu A Matua. Then he covered everything with soil. He hid (the head), took it, and went up. When he was inland, he put (the head) down at Te Avaava Maea. Another day dawned, and the men saw a dense swarm of flies pour forth and spread out like a whirlwind (ure tiatia moana) until it disappeared into the sky ...

he tu-ao he tuvi → he tavi    

The dark brown tern with a round tail is called tuao ... Ao, the world.

I was told that tavi is a small, lead-colored bird that lives on the little islets (motu) off the coast. He is supposed to look like the tuvi, the grey tern, and owes his name to his call ... Grey tern, Tuvituvi (Procelsterna caerulea skottsbergi) ... Anous stolidus unicolor ...

The calling out (ragi) of the tuvi bird (viz. tavi) was strangely not heard before his appearance, a sign of time reversed. It was the same as the order between thunder and lightning:

... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...

MAY 25 (5-25) 26 (*266) 27 28 (348)
Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9 (68)
Āshleshā-9 (Embrace) / Willow-24 (Stag)

π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ = σ Hydrae, MUSEIDA = π² Ursae Majoris (129.9)

RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)

Al Nathrah-6 (Gap)

BEEHIVE (Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses) = ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)

*89.0 = *130.4 - *41.4

Extended Net-26a (Ox) / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)

η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE (Bow and Arrow) = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)

*90.0 = *131.4 - *41.4

ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)

*91.0 = *132.4 - *41.4

... He is bound to it with willow thongs in the 'five-fold bond' which joins wrists, neck, and ankles together ...

... They were Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, both sealed together in a close embrace. Crushed between the weight of their bodies were their many children, whose oppression deepened. They yearned to be free; they fought their parents and each other to break loose. Tuumatauenga, virile god of war, thrust and shouted; Tangaroa of the oceans whirled and surged; Tawhirirangimaatea, Haumiatiketike and Rongomatane, of wild foods and cultivated crops, tried their best but were not successful; and Ruamoko, god of earthquakes, yet to be born, struggled in the confinement of his mother's womb ... Of them all, Taane Mahuta [cfr Mahute, Boussonetia papyrifera], the god of the forests, was the most determined; he set his sturdy feet upon his father's chest, and braced his upper back and shoulders against the bosom of his mother. He pushed; and they parted. So the world, as the Maori understand it, came into being ...

... A man had a daughter who possessed a wonderful bow and arrow, with which she was able to bring down everything she wanted. But she was lazy and was constantly sleeping. At this her father was angry and said: 'Do not be always sleeping, but take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean, so that we may get fire.' The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about. At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore. Then the old man was glad. He kindled a large fire, and as he wanted to keep it to himself, he built a house with a door which snapped up and down like jaws and killed everybody that wanted to get in. But the people knew that he was in possession of fire, and the stag determined to steal it for them. He took resinous wood, split it and stuck the splinters in his hair. Then he lashed two boats together, covered them with planks, danced and sang on them, and so he came to the old man's house. He sang: 'O, I go and will fetch the fire.' The old man's daughter heard him singing, and said to her father: 'O, let the stranger come into the house; he sings and dances so beautifully.' The stag landed and drew near the door, singing and dancing, and at the same time sprang to the door and made as if he wanted to enter the house. Then the door snapped to, without however touching him. But while it was again opening, he sprang quickly into the house. Here he seated himself at the fire, as if he wanted to dry himself, and continued singing. At the same time he let his head bend forward over the fire, so that he became quite sooty, and at last the splinters in his hair took fire. Then he sprang out, ran off and brought the fire to the people ...

July 28 29 (*130) 30 31 (212)
°July 24 25 26 (*127) 27 (208)
'July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185)
"June 17 18 19 (*90) 20 (171 = 185 - 14)

... When it grew light, Makoi arose again. He went off to further explore the area. He went along and came to the 'dark rat'. He looked around and said: 'Here we are at the dark rat of Hau Maka'. He gave it the name Te Kioe Uri A Hau Maka. He went on and came to Te Piringa Aniva. When he arrived there, he looked around and gave the name Te Piringa Aniva. He went on and came to Te Pei, looked around, and said, 'Here it is!' So he gave the name Te Pei A Hau Maka. He went on, all alone he went on, and came to Te Pou. When he arrived there, he looked around and again said, 'Here it is!' and gave the name Te Pou A Hau Maka ... [E:20]

This should have happened in "June 16, because the events in "June 15 ended as follows: ... Makoi got up and began to familiarize himself with the (new) land. (This took place) on the fifteenth day of the month of June ('Maro'). He went toward the sheer face of the rocks (titi o te opata), was astonished (aaa), came up to the middle (of the outer rim of the crater), and stood at the very edge. He looked down and saw the 'Pu Mahore of Hau Maka' (on the coast) and said, 'There it is, the hole of the mahore fish of Hau Maka!' He turned his face and looked toward the back (i.e., in the direction of the crater). No sooner had he seen how the dark abyss opened up (below him), when a fragrant breeze came drifting by. Again Makoi said, 'This is the dark abyss of Hau Maka'. He turned around, walked on in utter amazement, and arrived at the house. He spoke to Ira, 'Hey you, my friends! How forgetful we (truly) are. This place is adequate (? tau or 'beautiful'), the dark abyss lies there peacefully!' Ira replied, 'And what should that remind us of up here?' All arose and climbed up. They went on and arrived; they all had a good look (at the inside of the crater). They returned home and sat down. Night fell, and they went to sleep ... [E:19]

He Tavi ("June 18) was related to the call of He Tuvi ("June 16). In between it grew light (tu-ao) and here Makoi had gone on his own to visit 4 kuhane stations.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 24 (*248) 25 (329) 26 27
ROTANEV = β Delphini, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN = α Delphini, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI (Tail of the Swan) = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8)

Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 (Good Fortune of the Swallower) / Dhanishta-24 (Most Famous) / Girl-10 (Bat)

YUE (Battle-Axe) = ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8)

BATEN ALGIEDI (Belly of the Goat) = ω Capricorni (315.8)

BETELGEUZE (α Orionis) 
Jan 27 (392) 28 29 (*314) 30
°Jan 23 (388) 24 25 (*310) 26
'Jan 1 (366) 2 3 4 (*288 = *315 - *27)
"Dec 17 18 (*272) 19 20 (354 = 395 - 41)

The next night the Full Moon was at the Bat (the Swallower).

Right ascension day *314 corresponded to January 29 and anciently the winter months had only 29 nights. Then came February with the Swallow.

10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat Febr 9 (405)

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow Febr 18 (414) → Bharani

... Now birds and fishes are born under the sign of the Yin [Moon], but they belong to the Yang [Sun]. This is why birds and fishes both lay eggs. Fishes swim in the waters, birds fly among the clouds. But in winter, the swallows and starlings go down into the sea and change into mussels ...

13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig March 5 (414 + 15 = 365 + 64)
March equinox
14 Wall γ Pegasi (Algenib) Porcupine March 22 = 365 + 80 + 1

... In the present context 'mouth' has an additional connotation, given that it refers in part to Heart of Earth, the deity called 'Mundo' today. This is the great Mesoamerican earth deity, the ultimate swallower of all living beings, depicted in Classic Mayan art (in the Palenque relief panels, for example) as an enormous pair of jaws upon whose lips even the feet of great lords must rest in precarious balance, and into whose throat even great lords must fall. Turning to the contemporary scene, daykeepers who visit the main cave beneath the ruins of Rotten Cane, the last Quiché capital, speak of the danger of falling into 'the open mouth of the Mundo' there, which is said to be more than four yards wide ...

... A crack opened up in the ground, and the Rat was put down into the pit, to rest there - he hakatopa i te kioe.ki raro ki te rua.he hakarere ... [E: 4]

The ruins of the last Quiché capital, viz. Rotten Cane, suggests the Rotten Melon (ε Delphini), which star came 3 days earlier than ε Aquarii (Albali, the Swallower)

and where in Roman times had been 'December 31. And 'more than four yards wide' could point at day 350 + 4 = "December 20 (354 = 12 * 29½) corresponding to the nakshatra position of MAY 28 (348 = 12 * 29 = 354 - 6) - which in turn was a week after MAY 21:

Itzam-Yeh defeated

28 May (148), 3149 BC

1st 3-stone place

21 May (141), 3114 BC

Creation of our present world

13 August (225), 3114 BC

Och ta chan (Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky')

5 February (36), 3112 BC

21 May, 3114 BC - 5 February, 3112 BC = 542

542 'happens to be' the sum of 365 days and 6 * 29½ nights.

The calendar structure might have stood intact in spite of the fact that the precession pushed the Sun earlier and earlier.

he ruru   he taiko he kumara   he kiakia he tuvi

Sula cyanops ... It should be pointed out that the combined name ruru-taiko refers in MAO. to a black petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni). There are no cultural data available for ruru, which seems to be derived from PPN. *lulu 'owl'... There are no cultural data available for ... taiko (compare RAR. taiko 'black petrel', MGV. tiaku 'petrel?, omen of death', but the textual association of taiko and spirits should be dept in mind ...

... The transference of the name for sweet potatoes, kumara, to a sea bird (Oestrelata incerta or Oestrelata leucoptera) presents a problem in taxonomy. In a short recitation that accompanies the string game, the next bird on the list, kiakia, the white tern, is associated with the leaves of the sweet potato ... White tern. Leucanus albus royanus ...

... Grey tern, Tuvituvi (Procelsterna caerulea skottsbergi) ... Anous stolidus unicolor ... The dark brown tern with a round tail is called tuao ... I was told that tavi is a small, lead-colored bird that lives on the little islets (motu) off the coast. He is supposed to look like the tuvi, the grey tern, and owes his name to his call ...

MAY 20 (140) 21 (*61) 22 23 24 (144 = 12 * 12)
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 (64)
AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4)

*84.0 = *125.4 - *41.4

AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8)

*85.0 = *126.4 - *41.4

ο Ursae Majoris (127.4)

*86.0 = *127.4 - *41.4

Pushya-8 (Nourisher)

υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2)

July 23 (204) 24 (*125) 25 26 (187 + 20) 27 (208)
°July 19 (200) 20 (*121) 21 22 / 7 23 (204)
26 (177 = 6 * 29½) 'June 27 28 29 (*100) SIRIUS
"June 12 13 (*84) 14 (165 + 365) Te Maro 15 16

Day 365 + 166 = 531 = 18 * 29½ (Te Maro 15).

      

... Makoi got up and began to familiarize himself with the (new) land. (This took place) on the fifteenth day of the month of June ('Maro'). He went toward the sheer face of the rocks (titi o te opata), was astonished (aaa), came up to the middle (of the outer rim of the crater), and stood at the very edge. He looked down and saw the 'Pu Mahore of Hau Maka' (on the coast) and said, 'There it is, the hole of the mahore fish of Hau Maka!' He turned his face and looked toward the back (i.e., in the direction of the crater). No sooner had he seen how the dark abyss opened up (below him), when a fragrant breeze came drifting by. Again Makoi said, 'This is the dark abyss of Hau Maka'. He turned around, walked on in utter amazement, and arrived at the house. He spoke to Ira, 'Hey you, my friends! How forgetful we (truly) are. This place is adequate (? tau or 'beautiful'), the dark abyss lies there peacefully!' Ira replied, 'And what should that remind us of up here?' All arose and climbed up. They went on and arrived; they all had a good look (at the inside of the crater). They returned home and sat down. Night fell, and they went to sleep ... [E:19]

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 19 (*243) 20 (324) 21 22 23
GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (The Sheep) = ν Capricorni (307.9)

Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 (Lucky One of the Slaughterers) / Ox / Herd Boy-9 (Buffalo)

DABIH = β Capricorni (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), SADIR (Hen's Breast) = γ Cygni (308.4), PEACOCK = α Pavonis (308.7)

*267.0 = *308.4 - *41.4

OKUL = π Capricorni (309.6), BOS = ρ Capricorni (309.9)

ARNEB (α Leporis)

MINTAKA (δ Orionis)

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

HEKA (λ Orionis)

ALNILAM (ε Orionis)

ROTTEN MELON = ε Delphini, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

PHAKT (α Columbae)

ALNILAK (ζ Orionis)

Jan 22 23 (388) 24 25 (*310) 26
°Jan 18 (383) 19 20 21 (*306) 22
'Dec 27 (360) 28 29 30 31 (*284)
"Dec 12 (*266) 13 14 (348) 14 16

Evidence is piling up for us and the result is a kind of perspective.

... Another iconographic phenomenon, which we can learn from Wilkinson, is the perspective relating water to the horizon:

The horizon, where the sea and the sky were joined close together, was far away and for the eye it appeared to be higher up than where the observer was standing. This idea we can find also in the vocabulary of the Polynesians:

Eke. To climb, to mount, to mount (a female for copulating), to surface (of fish), and by extension, to bite; he eke te kahi the tuna bites. Vanaga. Trestle, stilt; to mount a horse, to go aboard. Hakaeke, to cause to mount, to carry on a boat. P Pau.: fakaeke, to transport, to carry, to hang up. Mgv.: eke, to embark, to mount upon an elevation. Mq.: eke, to rise, to go aboard; hakaeke, to heap up, to put upon, to raise. Ta.: ee, to mount, to go aboard; faaee, to hang up, to transport by water. Churchill.

Iri. 1. To go up; to go in a boat on the sea (the surface of which gives the impression of going up from the coast): he-eke te tagata ki ruga ki te vaka, he-iri ki te Hakakaiga, the men boarded the boat and went up to Hakakainga. 2. Ka-iri ki puku toiri ka toiri. Obscure expression of an ancient curse. Vanaga. Iri-are, a seaweed. Vanaga.

Moreover, in Egyptian art a distance far away was not depicted, Wilkinson says, by decreasingly small figures but by 'heaping up' horizontal elements. This concept was evidently used when building pyramids (heaps of stones):

... I walked towards it now, and spent some time strolling around it and clambering over it. Originally it had been a clean-sided step-pyramid of earth faced with large andesite blocks. In the centuries since the conquest, however, it had been used as a quarry by builders from as far away as La Paz, with the result that only about ten per cent of its superb facing blocks now remained. What clues, what evidence, had those nameless thieves carried off with them?

As I climbed up the broken sides and around the deep grassy troughs in the top of the Akapana, I realized that the true function of the pyramid was probably never going to be understood. All that was certain was that it had not been merely decorative or ceremonial. On the contrary, it seemed almost as though it might have functioned as some kind of arcane 'device' or machine. Deep within its bowels, archaeologists had discovered a complex network of zigzagging stone channels, lined with fine ashlars. These had been meticulously angled and jointed (to a tolerance of one-fiftieth of an inch), and had served to sluice water down from a large reservoir at the top of the structure, through a series of descending levels, to a moat that encircled the entire site, washing against the pyramid's base on its southern side ...

What came after the Gap (the Crack, Te Rua) - i.e. Al Nathrah (Beehive, Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses)?

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.

LUA, s. Haw., a pit, hole, cave; v. to dig a hole; also in ancient times a process of killing a man by breaking his back or bones; lua-lua, be flexible, pliant, soft, old garments, a road with many small ravines crossing it; lua-u and lua-ni, a parent; lua-hine, an old woman. Mang., rue-ine, id. Sam., lua, hole, pit; lua-o, an abyss. Tah., rua, hole, pit; rua-rua, to slander, to backbite; rufa, worn out, as garments; rua-u, old, stricken in years; s. old man or woman. Tong., luo, hole. N. Zeal., rua, id. Fiji., rusa, decayed perished. Malg., loakh, luaka, hole, cave, pierced. Greek, τρυω, τρυχω, to rub down, wear out, waste; τρυςω, toil, labour; τρυπα, τρυμη, a hole; τρυπανον, a borer, auger; τρυχος, a tattered garment, rags; τρυφη, softness, delicacy; θρυπτω, break in pieces. Liddell and Scott refer these words to τειρω, to rub, rub away, as derivatives of it, wear out, and τειρω, to the Sanskrit tŗi, to pass over, hasten, fulfil, &c. Benfey also concurs in that derivation when he refers τρυμα, a hole, and τρυτανη, the tongue of a balance, to the same tŗi. With due deference to so great authorities, I would suggest that the above group of Greek words be referred to the Sanskrit ru, lu, lædere, secare, with the prefix t; and they would thus at once fall into line with their Polynesian relatives, whose development of sense is perfectly analogous to the Greek group, though their development of form has been arrested. It may be noted, moreover, as distinctive of the two roots, tŗi and ru, that while from the former - to pass over frequently, to rub, to smootheen - the idea of 'young, fresh, a youth' (taruna), 'soft, delicate' (τερην), 'tender, soft, and childhood' (tener), were developed, the root ru, lu, gave birth to the idea of 'old age, weakness, crumpled, flexible, as an old garment'; lua, lua-u, τρυχος. Lat., trua, trulla, a tray, ladle, basin; ruo , to tumble down, but whose primary sense must have been 'to dig', as evidenced in the phrase 'ruta et cæsa', and in rutrum, a spade, mattock. Quære, rus, country, from ruo, to dig, cultivate? Goth., riurs, mortal, corruptible. Scand., rye; Swed., rycka, pull up, pluck out. Anc. Slav., ryti, to dig; ruvati, to tear away. Irish, ruam, a spade; rumhar, a mine; rumahar, labour. Fornander.

According to Manuscript E a Crack opened up in the ground, and the Rat was put down into this pit, to rest there. He was nourished by sweet potatoes:

... he hakatopa i te kioe.ki raro ki te rua.he hangai.hai kumara.ai ka hoa no.i te kumara.te raa te raa. he tuu ki te tahi marama he ui.a Oti.ku piere.ana.te kioe.

Piere. Thousand; ka-piere, ka-piere, thousands and thousands (meaning: many, lots and lots). Vanaga. 1. A thousand, a great number. 2. Resin (? Fr.: brai); piere hiva, tar, pitch; akui ei piere hiva, to tar. Hakapierehiva, to tar. Churchill.

Five lines of Easter Island script (of unknown origin) plus the name Vaka.a Teatea. (The Eighth Land, p. 290.)

he haka.hetu. a Oti.i taana.kiōe. [E: 4]

Hetu 1. To (make) sound; figuratively: famous, renowned. 2. To crumble into embers (of a bonfire). Hetu'u. Star, planet; hetu'u popohaga morning star; hetu'u ahiahi evening star; hetu'u viri meteorite. Vanaga. Hetu 1. Star (heetuu); hetu rere, meteor; hetu pupura, planet. P Pau.: hetu, star. Mgv.: etu, id. Mq.: fetu, hetu, id. Ta.: fetu, fetia, id. The alternative form fetia in Tahiti, now the only one in common use, need not be regarded as an anomaly in mutation. It seems to derive from Paumotu fetika, a planet. Its introduction into Tahiti is due to the fashion of accepting Paumotu vocables which arose when the house of Pomare came into power. 2. Capital letter (? he tu). 3. To amuse. 4. To stamp the feet. Hetuhetu, to calk, to strike the water. Hetuke, sea urchin. Churchill.

He (the Rat) seems to have become a Star (hetu) when he was finished (Oti) - his spirit went up into the sky.

Oti. To come to an end; to suffice, to be enough: ku-oti-á, it is finished; ina kai oti mo kai, there is not enough to eat; he-oti á, there isn't anymore left, it's the last one; it's enough with that. Vanaga. Ta.: 1. Oti, presage of death. Sa.: oti, to die. 2. To cut. Mq.: koti, oti, id. Sa.: 'oti, id. Ma.: koti, id. Churchill.