Ideas: 2. It is not certain that the object is a canoe. Metoro sometimes used the word tao, e.g.
Unless tao is a word for canoe, what else could it be? In 'Ancient Tahiti' (Henry) I found ta'o = a long spear carried on the shoulder and tao'a = property, valuable belonging. Po ta'ota'o ('thick impenetrable darkness') is mentioned in the the myth about Rumia. And Fischer tells about ta'u, meaning 'year'. 3. The left leg is long above the knee, short below. The right leg has the opposite characteristics. |