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nga.ki maori. he ōo.ki roto ki te hakari he ara She slipped into the (sleeping) body of Hau Maka, and the body of Hau Maka awakened.

E:12

te hakari.o hau maka.
Ara. 1. Road, path; ladder. 2. To wake up, to concentrate on something; he-ara te mata, to inspect attentively; hé-ara, he-ûi a raro o te vai kava, concentrating, he looked at the sea-bottom. Ará-ará, to signal, to send signals with the hand (to another person in the distance): he-haaki-atu hai rima ará-ará. Vanaga. 1. Path, trail, road, way. 2. a. To awake, to arouse; veve ara, to awaken; hakaara, to arouse, to excite. b. To be awake; hakaara, to be awake; ara no, insomnia, sleeplessness. c. To watch, to guard; tagata ara, sentinel. Churchill.
he ea ki runga he a he hakatopa i te atua o He arose and said full of amazement 'Ah' and thought about the dream.
Topa. 1. To bend down, to drop to the ground; to fall on a certain date. 2. To stop doing something, to drop; ina ekó topa taau aga, do not stop, keep doing your work. 3. To remain, to be left over, to be unfinished; he topa te kai, the food is not finished, there is some left. 4. To come to one's memory; i te aamu he topa te vânaga tûai, in the legends old words come to memory. 5. To remember, to reflect (with mana'u as subject); e-topa rivariva tokorua mana'u ki te me'e nei, let the two of you think carefully about this thing. Vanaga. 1. Wine; topa tahaga, id. 2. To fall in drops, to descend, to go down, to abdicate; topa iho, to fall; hakatopa, to knock down, to cause to fall; hakatopa ki raro, to knock down, to subjugate. 3. Childbirth, abortion; topa te poki, to lie in. 4. A feast, to feast. 5. To arrive, to result; topa rae, newcome; topa iho, to come unexpectedly; topa ke, to deviate; topa no mai, topa hakanaa, topa tahaga, mau topa pu, unexpected; topa okotahi, solitary; hakatotopa, to excite, to foment. 6. Bad, low, cheap, failure; igoa topa, nickname; ariga topa, sinister, sly, ill-tempered, to hang the head; hakatopa, to disparage; hakatotopa, irresolute. 7. (Of upward movement) topa ki raro, to scale, to surpass; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer a dignity; hakatopa ki te kahu, to spread a sail; hakatotopa, to make a genealogy. Churchill.
te po he ngaroa te ahanga e hua tava.he u(-) Hua Tava heard him saying 'Ah' and asked him from the other end of the house, 'What is it that amazes you so?'

Hau Maka replied, 'That which amazes me is a dream'.

Then Hua Tava said, 'How well you must have fared in this dream, oh companion! Tell me about your dream.'

Hau Maka told about his dream: 'I was sleeping, and this is what happened: My dream soul moved on, and, through the power of her mana, my dream soul reached seven [ehitu] lands, which were lying in the midst of a dim twilight.

My dream soul looked around searchingly, but these lands were not very good at all.

In the midst of dim twilight there is Te Pei, the residence.

Not even eight [evaru] groups of people (i.e., countless boat crews) can find the small piece (of land?) again once it has been lost.

i mai mai te rua tara pehe koe e a no ena
he ki atu a hau maka.he mee au e a nei he
atua a te po oira a au e a nei he ki hoko(-)
ou mai a hua tava ka reka ai koe i tau atu(-)
a te po e hokorua ē.ka hoa mai tau atua
aau o te po.he hoa mai a hau maka.i taana
atua o te po moe a au ka mee era he oho too(-)
ku kuhane i ka mana atu tooku kuhane ko
te kainga ehitu i roto i te nehunehu kapua(-)
pua.hee rarama tooku kuhane kainga tae
ripou ko roto ko te nehunehu kapuapua.ko te
pei te nohonga evaru kaukau eko ravaa
he vau kainga i runga e tau e revareva ro a

E:13

i roto i te raa.ku marama taki ana te kainga e to(-) But one (can) take possession of [rava] the eighth land: (It lies) 'on high', (it) juts out (on the horizon), and its contours stand out against the (rising) sun (i.e., in the east).

 

Taki. Dieffenbach, in his 'Travels in New Zealand', mentions that a title or appellation of the chiefs there was 'Taki o te Wenua', and explains it to mean 'the root of the land'. As the New Zealanders also came from the Samoan group, it seems as if what once was a national appellation, in course of time became the title of a chief. If Diffenbach's interpretation of the title is correct, it corresponds to the Hawiian Kumu-honua, the name of the first man. The same author also mentions, p. 67, a place where chiefs go after death, and says it is called Taki-wana ... when a chief dies he first goes to Taki-wana, where his left eye remains and becomes a star. Then he goes to Reinga and further. Spirits sometimes leave the nether world and come back on earth and communicate with the living ... Reinga was a place near the North Cape, New Zealand, where the spirits of the dead collected previous to their final departure. Fornander.
oku kuhane ku nape tahi ana te ingoa e tooku My dream soul [tooku kuhane] surveyed the land carefully and (also) gave it a name.

Likewise, the future residence of the king and all other (places) were named.

The name (ingoa nui) for the whole land is Te Pito O Te Kainga A Hau Maka.'

kuhane.te maara tokoa mo noho mo te ariki a(-)
nakenake te ingoa i nape ai. te ingoa nui
o te kainga.ko te pito o te kainga.a Hau Maka.

Here ends the description of his dream soul voyage as Hau Maka gave it to Hua Tava.

Then Hua Tava told him to go to the king and tell also him about his dream:

he ki mai te tangata taina ko hua tava.ka oho The brother (taina) Hua Tava spoke: 'Go and let King Hotu Matua know about your dream!'
koe ka hakamaa i te atua o te po ki te ariki
kia Matua.
Oho. 1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga. 1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.
he oho a Hau maka.he hakamaa i te atua Hau Maka went to tell the king about the dream. When he arrived there, he told his dream.

He described the dream in detail, including all lands his [toona] dream soul had seen.

He omitted nothing whatsoever.

 

o te po ki te ariki kia Matua.he tuu he ha(-)
kamaa i te atua o te po he hakahi tahi
i te atua o te po anakeanake te kainga ui e(-)
ra e toona kuhane kai toe kai tohe etahi.
Ana. 1. Cave. 2. If. 3. Verbal prefix: he-ra'e ana-unu au i te raau, first I drank the medicine. Vanaga. 1. Cave, grotto, hole in the rock. 2. In order that, if. 3. Particle (na 5); garo atu ana, formerly; mee koe ana te ariki, the Lord be with thee. PS Sa.: na, an intensive postpositive particle. Anake, unique. T Pau.: anake, unique, to be alone. Mgv.: anake, alone, single, only, solely. Mq.: anake, anaé, id. Ta.: anae, all, each, alone, unique. Anakena, July. Ananake, common, together, entire, entirely, at once, all, general, unanimous, universal, without distinction, whole, a company; piri mai te tagata ananake, public; kite aro o te mautagata ananake, public; mea ananake, impartial; koona ananake, everywhere. Churchill. Splendor; a name applied in the Society Islands to ten conspicious stars which served as pillars of the sky. Ana appears to be related to the Tuamotuan ngana-ia, 'the heavens'. Henry translates ana as aster, star. The Tahitian conception of the sky as resting on ten star pillars is unique and is doubtless connected with their cosmos of ten heavens. The Hawaiians placed a pillar (kukulu) at the four corners of the earth after Egyptian fashion; while the Maori and Moriori considered a single great central pillar as sufficient to hold up the heavens. It may be recalled that the Moriori Sky-propper built up a single pillar by placing ten posts one on top of the other. Makemson.
i ki ai ki te ariki kia Matua.e Hau Maka After Hau Maka had spoken to King Hotu Matua, King Hotu Matua answered Hau Maka: 'You fared well in your dream, little king (ariki iti)! Now go back and send me the young men!'
ka reka ai koe i te atua o te po.e te ariki
iti ē.ka hoki koe ka unga tau ngaio ena

...we find in the Rig-Veda that the Açvins are constantly being celebrated, not only on account of their connexion with the rising and setting sun, but also for notable acts of healing performed upon blind people. Myriantheus, in his treatise 'Die Açvins', points out this miracle as the leading one in the record of the Dioscuri. 

ARIES:
1 Ashvini β and γ Arietis Horse's head April 17 (107)
wife of the Ashvins Sheratan and Mesarthim
2 Bharani 35, 39, and 41 Arietis Yoni, the female organ of reproduction May 1 (121)
the bearer  Musca Borealis

For him the Dioscuri stand for the twilight, which is intermediate between the light and the darkness, and which, if personified, can be said to set free the Sun from the devouring Wolf of the night.

The argument is not affected if we replace the twilight of Myriantheus by the twin-light of the morning and evening star. 'By their nature the Açvins are closely related both to the Light and the Darkness; they are able to mediate between them and so to liberate the gods of light from the demons of the dark'. And Myriantheus thinks he has found the simple explanation of the peculiar characteristics of the Dioscuri in their intermediate position between Light and Dark, which enables them to restore to the Sun the light which he lost at his previous setting ...

... It must, however, be remembered that it follows from the duality of the character of the Twins, in which benevolence is the 'recto' and maleficence the 'verso', that they can as readily produce blindness as remove it; it only depends on the point from which we start, the Evening Star or the Morning Star. Of these two, it may be regarded as natural that the Morning Star should be considered to be the greater benefactor², and that the power of removing blindness will take precedence of the power of causing it; and at the same time we must be prepared to recognize both causes at work, and to see the reflection of either form of activity in the legends that have grown out of the primitive myth. 

²) Accordingly, in the Apocalypse, Jesus is described as the 'bright and morning star' ...

... Men swore by God and S. Polioctus because they had sworn by Jupiter and the Twins, and they swore by Jupiter because, being a sky-god, he was able to see everything that went on; and the Twins, being assessors of the sky-god, shared his knowledge ...

So far we can see that Gemini is located just beyond the deep point in the sky (or time) where Canopus,

or the Old Man at the bottom of the sea was seated.

Their position is indeed, as Rendell Harris has suggested, 'twilight' - the double lights. The border between Sky (vertical) and Earth (horizontal) may have necessitated drawing a constellation which was oriented neither as 90º nor 0º, but as 45º

like the layout of the Spartan double kingdom:

... At Verona is preserved the famous votive relief of Argenidas and the Disocuri; where we have the cult represented in so many different forms, the heroes standing, the urns of the dead heroes entwined with serpents, and the sacred beams of dokana which were their Spartan symbol. But this relief was found at Este.

These dokana are composed of a pair of upright beams, connected by a crossbeam in the form of the letter H; and they correspond to the unfinished brick wall of the Babylonian zodiacal sign, in the sense that they show the Twins to have been builders. Miss Harrison points out to me that the dokana became actual objects of worship ...

... Now in Sparta it is well known that the sign of the Dioscuri is the dokana, but it is not yet as clear as one could wish it to be, in what way the sacred cross-beams were arranged and what was the resulting conventional figure of them. In the votive tablet of Argenidas, now at Verona in the Museo Civico, we have an Anakeion or Temple of the Dioscuri (Anakes), whose front is marked by the sign of the Dokana; the beams, if we may assume the relief to contain the whole of the representation, are simply arranged in the form of the letter H, and the figure is repeated, so that we have side by side the delineation H H ...

Here I have to insert comments on the word Anakes, because I cannot avoid thinking of Anakena, where on Easter Island the new Sun king is born (according to Manuscript E). Anakeion is very close in sound (and possibly also meaning) to Anakena. Wikipedia:

Anax ... is an ancient Greek word for '(tribal) king, lord, (military) leader'. It is one of the two Greek titles traditionally translated as 'king', the other being basileus. Anax is the more archaic term of the two, inherited from the Mycenaean period, and is notably used in Homeric Greek, e.g. of Agamemnon. The feminine form is ánassa, 'queen' (from wánakt-ja) ...

... The meaning of basileus as 'king' in Classical Greece is due to a shift in terminology during the Greek Dark Ages. In Mycenaean times, a gwasileus appears to be a lower-ranking official (in one instance a chief of a professional guild), while in Homer, Anax is already an archaic title, most suited to legendary heroes and gods rather than for contemporary kings. The Greek title has been compared to Sanskrit ... vanij, a word for 'merchant', but in the Rigveda once used as a title of Indra. The word could then be from PIE *wen-ag'-, roughly 'bringer of spoils' (compare the etymology of lord, 'giver of bread').

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