Might not hua poporo indicate the season of
fruits (offspring, 'hua')?
Hua. 1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son,
hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow
well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel.
Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct
descendents;
contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose':
huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a
creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum).
Vanaga. 1. The same; ki hua, again, to
continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to
repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same,
to return, to recommence. 2. To bloom, to sprout;
flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko,
huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only
son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o
tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea
huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua,
to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua,
to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming
time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua,
to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to
sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein,
tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples
covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.:
hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on
hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples.
Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau,
entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau,
id. Churchill. 1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3.
Tā
hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'.
Fischer.
... Next, she went all alone and
arrived where the tree stood. It stood at the Place
of Ball Game Sacrifice. What? Well! What's the fruit
of this tree? Shouldn't this tree bear something
sweet? They
shouldn't die, they shouldn't be
wasted. Should I pick one? said the maiden. And then
the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the
tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in
the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu
when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she
was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well.
Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it,
said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched
out her right hand, up there in front of the bone.
And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed
squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she
looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but
the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a
sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This,
my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of
meat. It's just the same with the head of a great
lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look
good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his
bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his
spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a
lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The
father does not disappear, but goes on being
fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face
of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather,
he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that
I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on
the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the
word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven
Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it ... |
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