From 1 Ko Apina Iti up to and including 35 Ko Pipi
Horeko there were 13 'Ko-stations', which possibly indicated
exact positions:
... The expression 'here it is precisely' (tita'a
koîa) could possibly have been abbreviated into
ko (here) ...
And when Metoro Tau'a Ure read
rongorongo texts for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti this tita'a
koîa could have been shortened into koia, for
instance at right ascension day 55 ...
E:38 |
1
Ko
Apina
Iti |
2
Ko
Hanga
O Uo |
3 Hanga
Roa |
4 Okahu |
5 Ra
Tahai |
6 Ahu
Akapu |
7
Kihikihi Rau Mea |
8
Renga A Tini |
9
Vai A Mei |
10
Rua A Ngau |
11
Roro Hau |
12
Vai Poko |
13
Ko
Te Hereke |
E:39 |
14 Hatu
Ngoio |
15 Ara
Koreu |
16 Hanga
Kuokuo |
17 Opata
Roa |
18 Vai
Tara Kai Uo |
19 Hia
Uka |
20 Hanga
Ohiro |
21
Ko
Roto Kahi |
22
Ko
Papa Kahi |
23
Ko
Puna A Tuki |
24
Ko
Ehu Ko Mahatua |
25
Ko Maunga Teatea |
26
Ko
Te Hakarava |
27
Ko
Hanga Nui |
28
Ko
Tongariki |
29
Ko
Te Rano A Raraku |
30 Ko Oparingi |
31 Ko Motu Kumu
Koka |
E:40 |
31
Oparingi |
32
Motu Humu Koka |
33
Hanga Maihiku |
34
Maunga Toatoa |
35
Ko
Te Pipi Horeko |
36
Hanga Tetenga |
37
Ahu Tutae |
38
Tai E
Hia |
And from
28 Ko Tonga Riki to 38 Tai E Hia there were 10
days (to be counted, hia):
... When Metoro read a few rongorongo texts for Bishop Jaussen
on Tahiti he used hia at
glyphs from where to count
...
Toga. 1. Winter
season. Two seasons used to be distinguished in ancient times:
hora, summer, and toga, winter. 2. To lean against
somehing; to hold something fast; support, post supporting the
roof. 3. To throw something with a sudden movement. 4. To feed
oneself, to eat enough; e-toga koe ana oho ki te aga, eat
well first when you go to work. Vanaga. 1. Winter. P Pau., Mgv.:
toga, south. Mq.: tuatoka, east wind. Ta.: toa,
south. 2. Column, prop; togatoga, prop, stay. Togariki,
northeast wind. Churchill. Wooden platform for a dead
chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden
platform has been erected. Barthel 2. The expressions Tonga,
Kona, Toa (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the
quarter of an island or of the wind, between the south and west,
and Tokelau, Toerau, Koolau (Sam., Haw.,
Tah.), to indicate the opposite directions from north to east -
expressions universal throughout Polynesia, and but little
modified by subsequent local circumstances - point strongly to a
former habitat in lands where the regular monsoons prevailed.
Etymologically 'Tonga', 'Kona', contracted from 'To-anga'
or 'Ko-ana', signifies 'the setting', seil. of the sun. 'Toke-lau',
of which the other forms are merely dialectical variations,
signifies 'the cold, chilly sea'. Fornander.
A week after the solstice (and the wind from the northeast) Gemma
culminated (at 21h):
APRIL 17 (107) |
18 |
19 |
20
(*30) |
21 |
|
|
|
|
|
Ga1-27 |
Ga1-28 |
Ga1-29 |
Ga1-30 |
Ga2-1 |
CLOSE TO THE
SUN: |
6h (91.3)
ν
Orionis (91.4),
θ
Columbae (91.5),
π
Columbae (91.6)
*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4 |
ξ
Orionis (92.5) |
Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) /
Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth
of the Twins)
TEJAT PRIOR
=
η
Gemini
(93.4),
γ
Monocerotis (93.5),
κ
Aurigae (93.6),
κ
Columbae (93.8)
*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4 |
FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris
(94.9) |
Well-22 (Tapir) /
Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8
(Back of the Mouth of the Twins)
δ
Columbae (95.2),
TEJAT POSTERIOR =
μ
Gemini,
MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris
(95.4),
CANOPUS
(Canopy) =
α
Carinae
(95.6),
ε
Monocerotis (95.7),
ψ1
Aurigae (95.9)
*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4 |
June
20 |
SOLSTICE |
22
(*93) |
23
(174) |
ST JOHN'S DAY |
°June 16 |
17
(168) |
18 |
19 |
20
(*91) |
'May
24 (144) |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28
(*68) |
"May
10 (130) |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14
(*54) |
DAY
91 - 64 = 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
27 Ko Hanga
Nui
a te
Papa tata ika |
28 Ko Tonga
Riki
a
henga eha tunu kioe. hakaputiti ai ka
hakapunenenene.henua mo opoopo o tau kioe. |
29 Ko Te Rano
A Raraku
|
30 Oparingi
|
31 Oparingi
a
uuri |
... The
Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into
Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing
still at the time when the Argonauts passed by.
Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides
its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great
Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata
tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga'
had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden
Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura
who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves
in the ocean where the gods could not reach
them, and planned to overthrow the government.
So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus,
alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi
did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the
ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were
then slain by the gods. But now, there was no
ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the
sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in
sooth hath been digested by me. Some other
expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you,
if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean
...
|
CLOSE TO THE
FULL MOON: |
OCT
17 (290) |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
Dec
20 |
SOLSTICE |
22 |
23
(357) |
CHRISTMAS EVE |
ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο Herculis
(274.0), π Pavonis (274.6) |
ι Pavonis (275.1),
POLIS
(Foal) = μ Sagittarii
(275.9)
MENKAR (α Ceti) |
η Sagittarii (276.9) |
Purva Ashadha-20 (Elephant Tusk, Fan, Winnowing
Basket) |
KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii,
κ Lyrae (277.5),
TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis
(277.7),
SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis
(277.8),
KWEI SHE = χ Draconis
(277.9) |
φ
Oct. (278.1),
KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii
(278.3),
ξ
Pavonis (278.4),
AL ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle)
=
μ Lyrae
(278.6)
*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4 |
APRIL 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 (*35) |
26 |
27 |
28 (118 = 4
* 29½) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ga2-2 |
Ga2-3 |
Ga2-4 |
Ga2-5 (35) |
Ga2-6 |
Ga2-7 |
Ga2-8 |
CLOSE TO THE
SUN: |
no star
listed (96) |
β
Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) |
no star
listed (98) |
ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)
*58.0 = *99.4 - *41.4
GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.) |
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5),
MEBSUTA (Outstretched) = ε Gemini
(100.7) |
SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris
(101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6
Aurigae (101.7)
*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4 |
τ
Puppis (102.2),
ψ7
Aurigae (102.4)
*61.0 = *102.4 - *41.4 |
... 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 ... |
June 25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (180) |
30 |
July 1 |
SOLSTICE |
°June 22 |
23 |
ST JOHN'S
DAY |
25 (*96) |
26 (177) |
27 |
'May 29 |
30 (150) |
31 |
'June 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (*75) |
"May 15
(500) |
16 (136) |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 (*61) |
DAY 96 - 64
= 32 |
33 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
37 |
38 |
32 Motu Humu Koka
a mare a
kaoa |
33 Hanga Maihiku
a papa
hakakiva |
34 Maunga Toatoa
a veri
iri haere |
35 Ko Te Pipi Horeko
a
morokiroki |
36 Hanga Tetenga
a ure
ngorongoro |
37 Ahu Tutae
a hare
kava hia ka hakaruarua ka hakauaua tamai |
38 Tai E Hia
e tai
e hia e e uta e roi e he toou umu ka tao ka maemae ro i
kona era i kona era i oroi aau i ootu ai |
... It is said that, not long before the
first missionaries' coming a certain Rega Varevare a
Te Niu saw their arrival in a vision and travelled
all over the island to tell it: He-oho-mai ko Rega
Varevare a Te Niu mai Poike, he mimiro i te po ka-variró
te kaiga he-kî i taana uruga, he ragi: 'E-tomo te haûti
i Tarakiu, e-tomo te poepoe hiku regorego, e-tomo te îka
ariga koreva, e-tomo te poporo haha, e-kiu te Atua i te
ragi'. I te otea o te rua raá he-tu'u-hakaou ki Poike;
i te ahi mo-kirokiro he-mate.
Rega Varevare, son of Te Niu, came from
Poike, and toured the island proclaiming his vision:
'A wooden house will arrive at Tarakiu (near
Vaihú), a barge will arrive, animals will arrive
with the faces of eels (i.e. horses), golden thistles
will come, and the Lord will be heard in heaven'. The
next morning he arrived back in Poike, and in the
evening when it was getting dark, he died. Vanaga
'In the evening when it was getting dark he died' - i te ahi
mo-kirokiro he-mate - could have been the necessary crucial
information of a well-known myth suitable for a
comment on the 35th station Ko Te Pipi Horeko.
Although used in a somewhat disguised fashion in order to
invigorate thinking.
Barthel (p. 83-84): "There are numerous stone piles on Easter
Island that are used as taboo markers (pipi horeko). The
markings mentioned here are said to have been located in the
vicinity of Maunga Toatoa (compare TP:77, which gives an account
of the flight of the sole surviving Ororoine of the Hanau Eepe
to a house of the Hanau Momoko named 'Ko Pipihoreko'." |
CLOSE TO THE FULL
MOON: |
OCT
22 (295) |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (300) |
28 |
Dec 25 |
Dec 26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 (364) |
31 |
KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii
(279.3) |
ν
Pavonis (280.4),
κ
Cor. Austr.
(280.9)
*239.0 = *280.4 - *41.4 |
Abhijit-22 (Victorious)
θ
Cor. Austr.
(281.0),
VEGA
= α Lyrae
(281.8) |
no star
listed (282) |
ζ
Pavonis (283.4),
λ
Cor. Austr. (283.6),
DOUBLE DOUBLE =
ε
Lyrae
(283.7),
ζ
Lyrae (283.8)
*242.0 = *283.4 - *41.4 |
South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)
Φ
Sagittarii
(284.0),
μ
Cor. Austr. (284.6),
η
Cor. Austr.,
θ
Pavonis (284.8) |
SHELIAK
(Tortoise) =
β
Lyrae,
ν
Lyrae (285.1),
ο
Draconis (285.5).
λ
Pavonis (285.7)
ATLAS (27 Tauri)
|
... 'Tell us a
story!' said the March Hare. 'Yes, please do!' pleaded
Alice. 'And be quick about it', added the Hatter, 'or
you'll be asleep again before it's done.' 'Once upon a
time there were three little sisters', the Dormouse
began in a great hurry: 'and their names were Elsie,
Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a
well — '
|
These places obviously needed much additional information:
a henga
eha
tunu
kioe.
hakaputiti ai ka hakapunenenene.henua mo opoopo o
tau kioe. |
Tunu.
To cook, to fry; hare tunukai, kitchen. P
Mgv.: tunu, id. Ta.: tunu, to roast,
to boil, to cook. Churchill. ... Sinu
and sunu have shown senses which imply
contact with the naked fire, and that idea is
largely predominant in tunu, as exemplified
by the definitions of toasting, roasting, broiling,
cooking on embers. Disregarding the instances in
which the word is rendered by our general verb to
cook we shall examine the exceptions to this naked
flame sense. It is used of boiling in Samoa, Futuna,
Niuē, and Tahiti. It is
significant that not one of these peoples had taken
so much as the first step in fictile art, and such
heating of water as was needed was performed by
dropping hot stones into the water in a wooden bowl
... Churchill 2.
If the 'rat' -
kio(r)e - was roasted here it could be a way to
explain that the 'winter water rat' ended his days in
the hot high summer.
... 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
... |
e tai
e hia e e uta e roi e he toou
umu
ka tao ka maemae ro i kona era i kona era
i
oroi
aau i ootu ai |
Umu.
Cooking pit, Polynesian oven (shallow pit dug in the
ground, in which food is cooked over heated stones);
the food cooked in such a pit for a meal, dinner, or
banquet; umu pae, permanent cooking pit, in a
stone enclosure; umu paepae, permanent
cooking pit with straw cover for protection from
rain and wind; umu keri okaoka, temporary
cooking pit without stone enclosure; umu ava,
very large temporary cooking pit, made for feasts;
umu takapú, exclusive banquet, reserved for
certain groups of persons, for instance the
relatives of a deceased family member; umu tahu,
daily meals for hired workers; umu parehaoga,
inaugural banquet (made on occasion of a
communal enterprise or feastival); umu ra'e,
banquet for fifth or sixth month of pregnancy;
umu pâpaku, banquet on occasion of the death of
a family member. Vanaga. Cooking place, oven (humu).
Churchill.
Samoa,
Maori, Nukuoro, Niue, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mangaia,
Marquesas, Mangareva, Paumoto: umu, oven.
Tonga: ngotoumu, id. Uvea: ngutuùmu,
id. Futuna: ùmu-kai, id. Fotuna: amu,
cooking place. Rapanui: umu, oven;
humu hare, cook house ... The Polynesian radical
is consistently umu. Tonga and Uvea compound
with it a word which in Uvea is distinctly ngutu
mouth and in Tongan we may feel that ngutu
has been specifically differentiated in this
composite. In the Futuna composite the latter
element is merely kai food ... Particular
interest attaches to the discovery of the amu
type in Mabulag and Miriam, western and eastern
islands of the straits and remote from the New
Guinea coast ... The existence of amu in
Fotuna affords us reason to regard the type as
ancient Proto-Samoan, and that Mabulag and Miriam
received it directly and not on secondary loan from
Motu. Churchill 2. P Mgv.: horoi,
oroi, a towel, handkerchief, anything used as a
wiper after bathing.
(ε
Aquariii = Albali, *314 = 414 - 100)
7 |
Winnowing Basket |
γ Sagittarii (Nash) |
Leopard |
Dec 19 (353) |
December solstice |
8 |
South Dipper |
φ Sagittarii (?) |
Unicorn |
Dec 30 (364) |
9 |
Ox / Herd Boy |
β Capricornii (Dabih) |
Buffalo |
Jan 23 (388) |
10 |
Girl |
Albali |
Bat |
Jan 29
(394) |
11 |
Emptiness |
β Aquarii (Sadalsud) |
Rat |
Feb 9 (405) |
12 |
Rooftop |
α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) |
Swallow |
Feb 18 (414) |
13 |
House |
α Pegasi (Markab) |
Pig |
Mar 5 (429) |
March equinox |
14 |
Wall |
γ Pegasi (Algenib) |
Porcupine |
Mar 22 (81) |
15 |
Legs |
η Andromedae (?) |
Wolf |
Apr 1 (91) |
16 |
Bond |
β Arietis (Sheratan) |
Dog |
Apr 17 (107) |
17 |
Stomach |
4¹
Arietis (Bharani) |
Pheasant |
May 1 (121) |
18 |
Hairy Head |
η Tauri (Alcyone) (?) |
Cockerel |
May 16 (136) |
'Twinkle, twinkle [verovero],
little bat!' // How I wonder what you're at!'
|
Also Barthel (p. 82 resp. p. 84-85) has much to say about
these stations:
P. 82: "Tongariki, the important cult place in
the bay of Hanga Nui, which was permanently destroyed by the
tidal wave of 1960, has an additional name that is difficult
to understand. Henga ('the one who is red' ?) was the fifth
master of the ancient king Oto Uta, and, as such,
responsible for matters relating to the sky (in its morning
aspect?).
'Four [eha] prepare the rat (to be eaten)' introduces
an inserted text segment. Insertions of this kind will occur
more frequently from now on. The rat is scorched (?
hakaputiti) and then cleaned (? hakapunenenene).
All this happens in a 'land (where it is good) to eat this
rat with smacking noises'.
[Omo. To suck;
omoaga, bulky cloud; ragi omoaga cumulus;
omoomo; to suck repeatedly, to suckle; omotahi,
to win everything at a game (lit: to suck whole):
omotahi-mai-á e au, he has cleaned me out; omotohi,
full (of the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon
is full. Vanaga. Rima omo, infidelity, faithless,
unfaithful. Omoomo, to smack the lips, to suck the
breast, to smoke tobacco, to taste of; hakaomoomo, to
suckle, to paint. Churchill. Ta.: Omotu, an ember, a
coal. Mq.: komotu, omotu, firebrand.
Churchill. Ariki (o)motongi. Manuscript E:1.]
This could mean a land where food is abundant, since the
Polynesian rat was a favorite food (of the people) (ME:19).
[Another explanation could be to contrast the Easter Island
night of the Full Moon Omotohi (Finished Sucking) with the
corresponding maximum place (north of the equator) for the
Sun - possibly named Opoopo.]
Somewhat puzzling is the text of an
ancient song with the line ko tongariki a papa tata ika
(Campbell 1971:259), 'Tongariki, donde se lavaban los
cuerpos de las victimas'). Either we are dealing here with a
contamination from the preceding additional names for Hanga
Nui, or the symbol of the rat has the same meaning as the
symbol of the fish ('rat' for those killed in a blood feud,
compare the heva motif, and 'fish' for those killed
during battle?) ..."
|
|
kai |
ika |
... North of the equator the symbol of
the fish means death (cfr 'going down to the fishes'),
whereas the symbol of the rat should mean returning up onto
land again (to life) - because splashing water droplets will
vivify the dry and barren Mother Earth. The sitting figure
in the kai type of glyph is, I guess, splashing water
from his cupped hand into his mouth - i.e. he is not eating
(kai) but drinking (unu) in Polynesian fashion
...
P. 84-85: "We are dealing here with the contrasting pair
'toward the sea' [tai] vs. 'toward the land' [uta;
cfr the 1st ancient king Oto Uta], which will be used
on several other occasions. I was unable to locate the place
called 'Hia' along the shore. 'Roi', which is located
inland, seems to be related to 'Oroi' because Moai Oroi is
located at the foot of Maunga Kahurea ...
'When the corpse of Oroi was put in the oven to cook, it
came to life again. So then they had to take him over to the
other side of the island to where the ahu is called Oroi,
and there he cooked quite satisfactorily, and they ate him.'
(RM:279) ..."
|