Metoro said tagata honui both at the 6th glyph
no glyph |
koia |
ki te
hoea |
ki te henua |
te rima te hau tea |
haga i te mea ke |
ki te henua -
tagata honui |
Ko. 1. Article (ko te);
preposition: with (see grammar); prefix of
personal pronouns: koau, I; kokoe, you
(singular); koîa, he, she, it; kokorua,
you (plural); ko tagi, koîa, he with his
weeping. 2. Article which precedes proper nouns,
often also used with place names: Ko Tori, Ko
Hotu Matu'a, Ko Pú.
Koîa, exact: tita'a koîa, exact
demarcation. Seems to be the personal pronoun
koîa - applied in the meaning of: thus it is,
here it is precisely. Vanaga. 1. Negative;
e ko, not, except; e ko ora, incurable;
ina ko, not; ina ko tikea, unseen;
ina e ko, not; ina e ko mou, incessant.
2. A particle used before nouns and pronouns; ko
vau, I; ko te, this; ko mea tera,
this; ati ko peka, to avenge, ko mua,
first, at first, formerly. 3. There, yonder. P Mgv.:
ko, over there, yonder. Ta.: ó, there,
here. Churchill.
Hoe. Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.:
hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id.
2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero
oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to
make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a
cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to
wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe
hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu,
clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4.
Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe,
id. Churchill.T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva =
'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry. Hoea,
instrument for tattooing. Barthel.
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Ca1-1 |
Ca1-2 |
Ca1-3 |
Ca1-4 |
Ca1-5 |
Ca1-6 |
CLOSE TO
THE SUN: |
Sept 20
(263) |
21 |
Equinox |
23 |
24 |
25 (84 + 184) |
26 |
ALCHITA
= α Corvi,
MA
WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri
(183.1),
MINKAR = ε Corvi
(183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) |
PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis
(184.6),
MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris
(184.9) |
Hasta-13 (Hand) /
Chariot-28 (Worm)
GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi
(185.1),
ε
Muscae (185.2),
ζ
Crucis (185.4),
ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis
(185.9)
*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4 |
CHANG SHA (Long
Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi
(186.3) |
INTROMETIDA (Inserted) =
ε
Crucis
(187.4),
ACRUX =
α
Crucis
(187.5)
*146.0 =
*187.4 - *41.4 |
γ
Com. Berenicis (188.0),
σ
Centauri (188.1),
ALGORAB = δ Corvi
(188.5),
GACRUX = γ Crucis
(188.7) |
γ
Muscae (189.0),
AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi
(189.3),
ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven.
(189.5),
KRAZ = β Corvi,
κ Draconis (189.7) |
... Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was
pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to
upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed
his wings behind him and strutted up and down the
sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears
alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains
and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day
and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was
all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to
the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And
before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore,
he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the
beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted
back and and forth, once, twice, three times and
still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in
the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant
clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard
another muffled squeak. Peering down into the
opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it
was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his
shadow ... |
CLOSE TO THE FULL
MOON: |
March 21
(80)
Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)
0h (365.25)
CAPH
(Hand) = β Cassiopeiae,
SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse)
=
α
Andromedae
(0.5),
ε
Phoenicis,
γ³
Oct.
(0.8) |
22
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) /
Wall-14 (Porcupine)
ο Oct. (1.3),
ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi
(1.8) |
23
χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) |
24
σ
Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ
Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7) |
Julian equinox
no
star listed (4) |
26 (85 =
185 - 100)
ANKAA = α Phoenicis,
κ Phoenicis (5.0)
ALPHARD (α
Hydrae)
|
27
λ
Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)
*148.0
+ *183.0 = *331.0 = *6.4 - *41.4 + *366.0 |
'Febr 22
(53) |
23
(Terminalia) |
BISSEXTUM (54 - 55) |
26 |
27 |
28 |
... The players
all played at once, without waiting for turns,
quarreling all the while, and fighting for the
hedge-hogs; and in a very short time the Queen was
in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and
shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her
head!' about once in a minute. Alice began to feel
very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any
dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might
happen any minute, 'and then', thought she, 'what
would become of me?' They're dreadfully fond of
beheading
people here: the great
wonder is, that there's any one left alive! ... |
and 564 glyphs later.
Hetu erua |
tagata rere ki te
ragi |
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.
Rere.
To jump; to run; to fly. Rere-taúra,
to carry a child astride on one's shoulder:
ku rere-taúra-á i te poki e te matu'a ki
te gao, the mother carries her child
astride her neck. Vanaga. 1. To fly, to run,
to leap, to scale, to be carried away by the
wind; ika rere, flying fish; rere
aruga, to rebound; hetuu rere,
meteor, flying star. Hakarere, to
leap. P Pau.: rere, to soar, to fly;
fakarere, to precede. Mgv., Ta.:
rere, to fly, to leap. 2. To come, to
reach to. Mq.: éé mai, to come. 3. To
swerve, to deviate. (4. Hakarere, to
cease, desist, postpone, quit, vacation;
tae hakarere, perseverance. Mq.: rere,
to disappear. 5. Hakarere, to save,
preserve, put, place, reserve, burden,
destine. 6. Hakarere, to abandon,
forsake, give up, depose, expose, leave,
omit, abjure, repudiate; hakarere ki te
hau, uncover the head; hakarere ki te
vie, to divorce, hakarere ki raro,
to put down, tooa te kiko e ivi i
hakarere, to strip off the flesh. Mq.:
éé, to run away, to escape. 7.
Hakarere? Ikapotu hakarere, to
abut, to adjoin; e tahi hakarere,
synonym.) Churchill. Vi.: Lele, the
end of a branch farthest from the body of a
tree; leletha, to bend a branch in
order to gather the fruit on it. Churchill
2. In the present phase of Polynesian
lele so much means to fly that the
plainest way of particularizing birds is to
describe them as the flying animals,
manulele. But to manifest that flight,
an exercise or balancing of wings, was by no
means the primordial sense, for how could
that give rise to a description of water in
the water-courses? It will be no end to mass
the several significations which lele
exhibits ... Flight of birds ... Wind drive
... Meteors ... To leap ... To run ... Flow
of water ... To swim ... To sail ... These
several activities are exercised in earth,
air, and water. The common factor is the
swift motion. The means of motion cut no
figure. It is an invisible means in the
driving of the wind, the flash of the meteor
silent athwart the sky on its lethal errand,
the slip and slide of the stream in its deep
course, the set of the sea, the gliding of
the canoe upon its surface. Churchill 2. |
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Cb8-1 (172 → solstice) |
Cb8-2 (565 = 392 + 173) |
Cb8-3 (442 + 130 - 6 = 566) |
CLOSE TO
THE FULL MOON: |
APAMI-ATSA
(Child of Waters) = θ Virginis,
ψ
Hydrae (198.5),
DIADEM =
α
Com. Ber.
(198.9) |
AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber.
(199.4)
*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4 |
σ Virginis (200.4)
*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4 |
...
Apami-Atsa ('Child of Waters', θ
Virginis) at 13h maybe should be contrasted
with Apam Napat ('Grandson of
Waters') ... θ is
on the front of the garment, below the
girdle ... Moderns have no name for it, but
in the Surya Siddhanta it was
Apami-Atsa, the Child of the Waters ...
Apam Napat is an eminent
figure of the Indo-Iranian pantheon. In
Hinduism, Apām Napāt is the god of
fresh water, such as in rivers and lakes. In
Zoroastrianism, Apąm Napāt is also a
divinity of water ... Apām Napāt in
Sanskrit and Apąm Napāt in Avestan
mean 'grandson of waters' ... Sanskrit and
Avestan napāt ('grandson') are
cognate to Latin nepōs and English
nephew, but the name Apām
Napāt has also been compared to Etruscan
Nethuns and Celtic Nechtan and
Roman Neptune. In Yasht 19 of the
Avesta Apąm Napāt appears as the
Creator of mankind. Here, there is an
evident link between the glory of
sovereignty (Khvarenah) and Apąm
Napāt who protects Khvarenah as
the royal glory of Iranian kings. Apām
Napāt is sometimes, for example in
Rigveda book 2 hymn 35 verse 3, described as
a fire-god who originates in water ... The
reference to fire may have originally
referred to flames from natural gas or oil
seepages surfacing through water, as in a
fire temple at Surakhany near Baku in
Azerbaijan ... There is a conjecture that
the word 'naphtha' came (via Greek,
where it meant any sort of petroleum) from
the name 'Apampat' ...
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Oct 5 |
6 |
7 (280) |
'Sept 8 |
9 |
10 (253 = 280 - 27) |
"Aug 25 (237 = 8
* 29½ + 1) |
Hora iti 26 |
27 |
(PAPA O PEA) |
AHU AKAPU |
Here above I have moved Ahu Akapu 1
day ahead, compared to my earlier
presentations, in order to make it begin
when the Full Moon reached Cb8-3 (→ 24).
Aka. 1. Anchor: he-hoa te aka,
to drop anchor. 2. Root of certain plants
(banana tree, taro, sugar-cane). 3. To be
paralyzed by surprise. Vanaga. 1. Root;
aka totoro, to take root. P Pau., Mq.:
aka, root. Ta.: aa, id. 2.
(āka)
anchor. 3. Causative (haka).
Churchill.
The Explorers
stayed for 2 days in Ahu Akapu
and Cb8-6 (→ 48)
should therefore correspond to "September 29
when the Full Moon reached Spica. |
CLOSE TO
THE
SUN: |
April 5 (365 + 95 = 460) |
6 (96 =
80 + 16) |
7 |
1h (15.2)
β
Phoenicis (15.1),
υ
Phoenicis,
ι
Tucanae (15.6),
η
Ceti,
ζ
Phoenicis (15.7) |
Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) /
Revati-28 (Prosperous) /
1-iku (Field Measure)
MIRACH
(Girdle) =
β
Andromedae,
KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ
Andromedae
(16.0),
ANUNITUM =
τ
Piscium
(16.5),
REVATI (Abundant) =
ζ
Piscium
(16.9)
REGULUS
(α Leonis) |
ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6)
*342.0 = *383.4 - *41.4
= *159.0 + *183.0 |
'March 9 (68) |
10 |
11 |
"Febr 23 |
24 |
25 |
... The leap day was introduced as part of
the Julian reform. The day following the
Terminalia (February 23) was doubled,
forming the 'bis sextum - literally
'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the
sixth day before the Kalends of March' using
Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the
'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the
first day of the bis sextum (February
24) was usually regarded as the intercalated
or 'bissextile' day since the third century.
February 29 came to be regarded as the leap
day when the Roman system of numbering days
was replaced by sequential numbering in the
late Middle Ages ... |
te hokohuki |
te moko |
vero
hia |
tagata honui |
e
ha mata |
Ha. 1. Four. 2. To
breathe. Hakaha'a, to
flay, to skin. Vanaga. 1. Four. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ha, id.
2. To yawn, to gape. 3. To heat. 4. Hakaha,
to skin, to flay; unahi hakaha, to scale
fish. Mgv.: akaha, to take to pieces, to
take off the bark or skin, to strip the leaves
off sugarcane. 5. Mgv: ha, sacred,
prohibited. Mq.: a, a sacred spot. Sa.:
sa, id. Churchill.
Ho. 1. Ho!, Oh! 2.
Lest, on the point of. 3. To deliver, to give
up. Churchill. Ao nui, midnight. Vanaga. |
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Cb8-4 |
Cb8-5 (172 + 4) |
Cb8-6 (177 = 6 * 29½) |
Cb8-7 (392 + 178 =
570) |
Cb8-8 (1½ * 314 + 100) |
CLOSE TO THE
FULL MOON: |
γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)
*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4 |
Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) /
Chitra-14 (Bright One) /
Horn-1 (Crocodile) /
Sa-Sha-Shirū-20
(Virgin's Girdle) /
ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar)
MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris
(202.4),
SPICA
= α Virginis,
ALCOR
= 80 Ursae Majoris
(202.7)
SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)
*161.0 = *202.4 - *41.4 |
71 VIRGINIS
(203.6) |
no
star listed (204) |
HEZE
= ζ Virginis
(205.0),
Southern Pinwheel Galaxy = M83 Hydrae
(205.7) |
... Proclus
informs us that the fox star nibbles
continuously at the thong of the yoke which
holds together heaven and earth; German folklore
adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will
come to its end. This fox star is no other than
Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae
Majoris (in India Arundati, the common
wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae
...
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Oct
8 (240 + 41) |
9 |
10 |
11 (364 - 80) |
12 (285) |
'Sept 11 (354 - 100) |
12 |
13
(256 = 4 * 64) |
14 |
15 |
"Aug
28 (240) |
HORA ITI 29 |
30
(242 = 2 * 11 * 11) |
31 |
HORA NUI 1 |
AHU
AKAPU |
PU PAKAKINA A IRA |
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.
Kinana,
s. Haw., a hen that has hatched chickens.
Sam., tina,
a mother.
Tong., tina-manu, a sow that had litter.
Tah., ti'a,
the lower part of the stomach, below the navel.
Fiji., tina,
mother; tina-tina, mother of inferior
animals. N.
Zeal., tinana, the buttocks, trunk, body.
This word, with
somewhat varying but not far separate meanings,
I am inclined to consider as related to the
Goth., kwens,
kwino, a woman; kwina-kunds and
kwineins, female; and possibly kwithus,
the womb, the stomach, if that is syncope of an
original kwinthus. Greek,
γυνη, woman
... |
CLOSE TO THE
SUN: |
April 8
no
star listed (18) |
9
ADHIL
(Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae
(19.3),
θ
Ceti (19.7) |
10
(100)
KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae
(20.1),
ω
Andromedae (20.6),
γ
Phoenicis (20.8) |
11 (364 - 263)
δ
Phoenicis (21.5) |
12
υ Andromedae (22.9) |
'March 12 |
13 |
14
(73) |
15 |
16 |
"Febr 26 |
27 |
28
(59) |
29 |
"March 1 |
|
Venus (→ Venerable, Ho-nui) had two faces.
And the
Sun (as Antares) had two wives:
... Antares, visible in the morning [rehurehu]
sky of December-January, came to stand for summer heat;
hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks (ripens) all
fruit'. 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 ...
... Hamiora Pio once spoke as
follows to the writer: 'Friend! Let me tell of the
offspring of Tangaroa-akiukiu, whose two
daughters were Hine-raumati (the Summer Maid -
personified form of summer) and Hine-takurua (the
Winter Maid - personification of winter), both of whom
where taken to wife by the sun ... Now, these women had
different homes. Hine-takurua lived with her
elder Tangaroa (a sea being - origin and
personified form of fish). Her labours were connected
with Tangaroa - that is, with fish.
Hine-raumati dwelt on land, where she cultivated
food products, and attended to the taking of game and
forest products, all such things connected with Tane
...
Furthermore, the ancient Babylonian Great One held a pair of fresh
water 'serpents':
At the opposite side of 'the Crocodile' (Virgo)
was 'the Wolf' (Andromeda).
1 |
Horn |
α Virginis
(Spica) |
Crocodile |
Oct 9 (282) |
2 |
Neck |
κ Virginis |
Dragon |
Oct 21 (294) |
3 |
Root |
α Librae
(Zuben Elgenubi) |
Badger |
Oct 31 (304) |
4 |
Room |
π Scorpii
(Vrischika) |
Hare |
Nov 17 (321) |
5 |
Heart |
σ Scorpii |
Fox |
Nov 23 (327) |
6 |
Tail |
μ Scorpii
(Denebakrab) |
Tiger |
Nov 30 (334) |
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 |
ε Aquarii
(Albali) |
Bat |
Jan 29 (394) |
11 |
Emptiness |
β Aquarii
(Sadalsud) |
Rat |
Feb 9 (405) |
12 |
Rooftop |
α Aquarii
(Sadalmelik) |
Swallow |
Feb 18
(414) → Bharani |
... Now birds
and fishes are born under the sign of the Yin,
but they belong to the Yang. 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 |
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) |
19 |
Net |
ε Tauri (Ain) |
Crow |
May 25
(145) |
20 |
Turtle Head |
λ Orionis
(Heka) |
Monkey |
Jun 12 (163) |
21 |
Three Stars |
ζ Orionis
(Alnitak) |
Gibbon |
Jun 13 (164) |
June solstice |
22 |
Well |
μ Gemini
(Tejat Posterior) |
Tapir |
Jun 24 (175) |
23 |
Ghost |
ρ Gemini ? |
Goat |
Jul 11
(192) |
24 |
Willow |
δ Hydrae
|
Stag |
Jul 28 (209) |
25 |
Star |
α Hydrae
(Alphard) |
Horse |
Aug 10 (222) |
26 |
Extended Net |
ε Hydrae / μ
Hydrae |
Ox |
Jul 30 (211)
/ Aug 25 (237) |
27 |
Wings |
α Crateris
(Alkes) |
Snake |
Sep 2 (245) |
28 |
Chariot |
γ Corvi
(Gienah) |
Worm |
Sep 22 (265) |
September
equinox |
In order to become recycled Man had to go up (rere)
into the sky (tangata rere ki te rangi) - back
up again to the top from where he had originated:
... Men's spirits were thought to
dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations.
This conception has been
handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition
fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul.
Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the
matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn,
and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through
the 'Gate of Cancer' ...
Reiga. Mg.
Reiga, Spirit leaping-place. At Mangaia the spirits
of those who ignobly died 'on a pillow' wandered about
disconsolately over the rocks near the margin of the sea
until the day appointed by their leader comes (once a
year). Many months might elapse ere the projected
departures of the ghost took place. This weary interval
was spent in dances and revisiting their former homes,
where the living dwell affectionately remembered by the
dead. At night fall they would wander amongst the trees
and plantations nearest to these dwellings, sometimes
venturing to peep inside. As a rule these ghosts were
well disposed towards their own living relatives; but
often became vindictive if a pet child was ill-treated
by a stepmother or other relatives etc. Eventually the
spirits would depart from known reinga, spirit
leaping-places. Such leaping-places also existed on
other islands. Even after this departure some spirit
intrusions from the underworld were possible. Oral
Traditions.
Far away, the Mangaians of old
(Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional
clock running instead of switching over to 'signs',
claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days
can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the
northern parts of the island at one solstice, the
dwellers in the south at the other. Hamlet's Mill.
Rei. 1. To
tread, to trample on: rei kiraro ki te va'e. 2.
(Used figuratively) away with you! ka-rei kiraro koe,
e mageo ê, go away, you disgusting man. 3. To shed
tears: he rei i te mata vai. 4. Crescent-shaped
breast ornament, necklace; reimiro, wooden,
crescent-shaped breast ornament; rei matapuku,
necklace made of coral or of mother-of-pearl; rei
pipipipi, necklace made of shells; rei pureva,
necklace made of stones. 5. Clavicle. Îka reirei,
vanquished enemy, who is kicked (rei).
Vanaga. T. 1. Neck. 2. Figure-head.
Rei mua =
Figure-head in the bow.
Rei muri = Figure-head in the stern. Henry.
Mother of pearl; rei
kauaha, fin. Mgv.:
rei, whale's
tooth. Mq.: éi,
id. This is probably associable with the general
Polynesian rei,
which means the tooth of the cachalot, an object held in
such esteem that in Viti one tooth (tambua)
was the ransom of a man's life, the ransom of a soul on
the spirit path that led through the perils of Na
Kauvandra to the last abode in Mbulotu. The word is
undoubtedly descriptive, generic as to some character
which Polynesian perception sees shared by whale ivory
and nacre. Rei kauaha
is not this rei;
in the Maori whakarei
designates the carved work at bow and stern of the canoe
and Tahiti has the same use but without particularizing
the carving: assuming a sense descriptive of something
which projects in a relatively thin and flat form from
the main body, and this describes these canoe ornaments,
it will be seen that it might be applied to the fins of
fishes, which in these waters are frequently ornamental
in hue and shape. The latter sense is confined to the
Tongafiti migration. Reirei, to trample down, to
knead, to pound. Pau.: Rei-hopehopega, nape.
Churchill.
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