TRANSLATIONS
After following the hyperlink to
the pages with an introduction
to the Mamari moon
calendar another hyperlink
'return' enables the reader to
come back to the point of
departure:
I have written that at Ca7-15
the season of full moon has
arrived. Although the 'mirror'
(between period 3 and 4) has not
yet been reached, I think the
expression can stand as it is.
The reader - if he has follows
the hyperlinks - will know what
I mean. The second hyperlink,
from Otua, leads to a
page in which I try to 'prove'
how the name refers to 'o
tu'a, the back (side):
Atua,
atu'a
1. Lord,
God:
te Atua
ko
Makemake,
lord
Makemake.
Ki a
au te
Atua o
agapó,
I
had a
dream of
good
omen
last
night
(lit. to
me the
Lord
last
night).
2.
Gentleman,
respectable
person;
atua
Hiva,
foreigner.
3.
Atua
hiko-rega,
(old)
go-between,
person
who asks
for a
girl on
another's
behalf.
4.
Atua
hiko-kura,
(old)
person
who
chooses
the best
when
entrusted
with
finding
or
fetching
something.
5.
Atua
tapa,
orientation
point
for
fishermen,
which is
not in
front of
the
boat,
but on
the
side.
Atu'a,
behind.
Vanaga.
God,
devil. T
(etua).
P Pau.,
Ta.:
atua,
god.
Mgv.:
etua,
god,
deity,
divinity;
to be
wicked,
to be
full of
wickedness.
Mq.:
etua,
god,
divinity.
The
comprehensiveness
of the
definition,
and the
same is
found in
the
Maori,
is a
question
of
orthodoxy,
merely a
matter
of the
point of
view. Of
far more
moment
in our
studies
is the
vowel
variety
of the
initial
syllable.
Atua:
Maori,
Mangaia,
Tahiti,
Hawaii,
Tongareva,
Rapanui,
Paumotu,
Samoa,
Futuna,
Uvea,
Niuē,
Aniwa.
Etua:
Marquesas,
Mangareva,
Rapanui.
Otua:
Tonga.
The
Rotumā
oiitu
is
probably
referable
to
aitu.
Churchill.
Mq.:
atua,
the
fourteenth
day of
the
moon.
Ma.:
atua,
id.
Churchill. |
I suggest
Otua is a
wordplay
involving 'o
tu'a (the
back side).
Beyond full moon
the waning moon
will arrive and
the 'season' can
be referred to
as the 'back
side'. The end
of waning moon
is depicted as a
turned around
'person' with
the 'back side'
forward:
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Ca8-22 |
Ca8-23 |
Ca8-24 |
Ca8-25 |
Ca8-26 |
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Ca8-27 |
Ca8-28 |
Ca8-29 |
Tu'a
1. Back,
shoulder,
tu'a
ivi,
shoulder
blade;
tu'a
ivi
more,
lumbago;
moa
tu'a ivi
raį,
'sun-back
chicken':
chicken
with a
yellow
back
which
shines
in the
sun. 2.
Behind
(a
locative
adverb,
used
with
i, ki,
a, o,
etc).
Tu'a-papa,
pelvis,
hips.
Vanaga.
1.
Behind,
back,
rear;
ki tua,
after;
o tua,
younger;
taki
tua,
perineum.
2. Sea
urchin,
echinus.
The word
must
have a
germ
sense
indicating
something
spinous
which
will be
satisfactorily
descriptive
of the
sea
urchin
all
spines,
the
prawn
with
antennae
and thin
long
legs,
and in
the
Maori
the
shell of
Mesodesma
spissa.
Tuaapapa,
haunch,
hip,
spine.
Tuahaigoigo,
tattooing
on the
back.
Tuahuri,
abortion;
poki
tuahuri,
abortive
child.
Tuaivi,
spine,
vertebrę,
back,
loins;
mate
mai te
tuaivi,
ill at
ease.
Tuakana,
elder,
elder
brother;
tuakana
tamaahina,
elder
sister.
Tuamouga,
mountain
summit.
Tuatua,
to
glean.
Mgv.
tua:
To fell,
to cut
down.
Ta.:
tua,
to cut.
Mq.:
tua,
to fell,
to cut
down.
Ma.:
tua,
id.
Tuaki,
to
disembowel.
Ma.:
tuaki,
to clean
fish.
Tuavera,
the last
breadfruit
spoiled
by the
wind.
Ta.:
tuavera,
burnt by
the sun.
Churchill. |
The back side (tu'a)
is the temporal
opposite
(autumn, waning)
of the front
side (ra'e).
It is the
opposition
between 'evening
shadow' (ata
ahiahi) and
'morning shadow'
(ata popohaga).
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As to Churchills
remark oiitu
= aitu, I
cannot resist
the temptation
to quote:
"According
to
Alfred
Patterson,
the
hare
tongi
were
built on
[the
island
of]
Hare
as
places
for
people
to hide
from
spirits
(aitu)
which
came in
from the
sea.
E
hakamuni
ni aitu
takapo
tai
means
'to hide
from
spirit
groups
from the
sea'. The
idea
evidently
was that
people
could be
seen in
normal
houses
with
open
sides,
whereas
they
could
not be
seen by
the
spirits
when the
roof
came
down to
the
ground.
At [the
island
of]
Touhou,
according
to
Patterson,
the
people
could be
protected
from the
spirits
by the
ariki
priest
who
resided
there
but at
Hare
they had
no such
protection.
He also
stated
that the
aitu
came in
from the
sea
during
the
middle
part of
the day,
about 11
a.m. to
2
p.m. Hence,
women
working
in the
puraka
cultivations
in the
outer
islands
took
care to
return
to
Touhou
before
the
dangerous
period
started."
(Kapingamarangi) |
Spirits or gods
or devils - same
thing: 'full of
wickedness'. The
full moon
'season' is
equal,
structurally
regarded, to
'full sun' - the
'season' around
midday (when
aitu come in
from the sea).
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The people at the
back (tu'a) surely must
refer to the ancestors, and the
lineage of kings reaches back to
the gods. The sun child is born
in the east and at the end, in
the west, he must 'die'. Beyond
that we find the dead people,
the ancestors.
After returning to the previous
page, next page is (as we have
already seen):
I have now added a link from
'solar calendar' to:
A calendar based
on the yearly
movement of the sun
(Ra) was once used
in Egypt:
"Nut,
whom the
Greeks
sometimes
identified
with
Rhea,
was
goddess
of the
sky, but
it was
debatable
if in
historical
times
she was
the
object
of a
genuine
cult.
She was
Geb's
twin
sister
and, it
was
said,
married
him
secretly
and
against
the will
of Ra.
Angered,
Ra had
the
couple
brutally
separated
by Shu
and
afterwards
decreed
that Nut
could
not bear
a child
in any
given
month of
any
year.
Thoth,
Plutarch
tells
us,
happily
had pity
on her.
Playing
draughts
with the
Moon, he
won in
the
course
of
several
games a
seventy-second
part of
the
Moon's
light
with
which he
composed
five new
days.
As these
five
intercalated
days did
not
belong
to the
official
Egyptian
calendar
of three
hundred
and
sixty
days,
Nut was
thus
able to
give
birth
successively
to five
children:
Osiris,
Haroeris
(Horus),
Set,
Isis and
Nepthys."
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I try to assign
seasons to the 5 names: Horus
must be the sun child, i.e. the
sun up to his initiation at
noon. Set must be next stage in
the sun's development, i.e. when
he declines towards his 'death'
at the horizon in the west (when
he 'sets'). Isis, Nephtys,
and Osiris have to be the
persons of the 'night'. I think
we can rely on the order, in
which case Isis is the opposite
to Horus, i.e. 'a.m.' night.
Nepthys is midnight and Osiris
'p.m.' night.
I guess the 5 extracalendrical
nights correspond to the 5
seasons. If so, then there ought
to be some reflection in the
moon calendar. Although there
are 8 periods in the Mamari
moon calendar, we can - for example
- eliminate the 8th and last
period because it has no
marama glyph:
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Ca8-22 |
Ca8-23 |
Ca8-24 |
Ca8-25 |
Ca8-26 |
65 |
66 |
67 |
68 |
69 |
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Ca8-27 |
Ca8-28 |
Ca8-29 |
70 |
71 |
72 |
Eliminating these
8 glyphs, we have 72 - 8 = 64 (=
8 * 8) left.
There are 3 periods with 8
glyphs, and possibly it means we
should eliminate also the other
two, viz. period 1 and 4:
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Ca6-17 |
Ca6-18 |
Ca6-19 |
Ca6-20 |
Ca6-21 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
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Ca6-22 |
Ca6-23 |
Ca6-24 |
Ohiro |
Oata |
Ca6-22--23 are
not drawn as the other marama
nights, i.e. period 1 in this
respect resembles period 8.
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Ca7-17 |
Ca7-18 |
Ca7-19 |
Ca7-20 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
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Ca7-21 |
Ca7-22 |
Ca7-23 |
Ca7-24 |
Maśre |
Ina-ira |
Rakau |
Omotohi |
Ca7-22, on the
other hand, is drawn as the
other night glyphs. If we count
only this kind of marama
glyph, we get 20 such:
period 1 |
- |
period 4 |
1 |
period 6 |
2 |
period 2 |
6 |
full moon |
period 7 |
5 |
period 3 |
1 |
period 5 |
5 |
period 8 |
- |
sum |
7 |
sun |
6 |
sum |
7 |
Sun (6) is
flanked by twice moon (7). There
are 2 + 2 + 2 = 6 periods with
marama 'night' glyphs.
"The Egyptian year
was divided into
three seasons of
four months each:
the time of waters,
the season of
vegetation, and the
period of harvest.
The months were
numbered according
to their positions
in the seasons as
First of Waters and
so on. They also had
popular names, being
called after the
particular god who
governed them. Each
month was divided
into three decades
presided over by a
star of small group
of stars known as
decani.
Among the
Polynesians a single
conspicious star
reigned supreme for
an entire month,
except in the
Gilbert group and
the Marquesas where
systems resembling
the Egyptian
decanates
prevailed."
(Makemson) |
'...
The Gilbert
Islanders are
Polynesians, having
emigrated, according
to their traditions,
from Upolu,
Samoa, which they
look upon as te
buto (Maori
pito), the Navel
of the World. They
never counted the
nights of the Moon
beyond the
twentieth, so far as
Grimble was able to
ascertain, and in
the vagueness of
their lunar calendar
bore no resemblance
to their Micronesian
neighbors of the
Carolines ...' |
Although we thus have indications of
20 as the natural number of nights
for a month (Gilbert Islands and
Marquesas and the Mamari moon
calendar), the central full moon
season (with - according to
Mamari - only 6 night glyphs)
is worthy of a special study.
The lists of moon nights (which I
have assembled from Text Centre)
indicates how the central nights
either were 10 or 12 (redmarked
below according to my guesses),
which leaves either 10 or 8 to the two moon
'seasons':
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MAORI |
MORIORI |
HAWAIIAN |
TAHITIAN |
MARQUESAN |
RAROTONGAN |
1 |
Whiro |
O Mutu |
Hilo |
Hiro hiti |
Tu nui |
Iro |
2 |
Tirea |
O Whiro |
Hoaka |
Hoata |
Tu hawa |
Oata |
3 |
Hoata |
Otere |
Ku kahi |
Hami ami mua |
Hoata |
Amiama |
4 |
One |
Ohewata |
Ku lua |
Hami ami roto |
Mahea ma tahi |
Amiama aka oti |
5 |
Okou |
Oua |
Ku kolu |
Hami ami muri |
Mahea ma waena |
Tamatea |
6 |
Tamatea kai ariki |
Okoro |
Ku pau |
Oreore mua |
Koekoe tahi |
Tamatea aka oti |
7 |
Tamatea ananga |
Tamate tutahi |
Ole ku kahi |
Oreore muri |
Koekoe waena |
Korekore |
8 |
Tamatea aio |
Tamate turna |
Ole ku lua |
Tamatea |
Poipoi haa pao |
Korekore aka oti |
9 |
Tamatea whakapau |
Tamate nui |
Ole ku kolu |
Huna |
Huna |
O Vari |
10 |
Huna |
Tamate hokopą |
Ole ku pau |
Ari |
Ai |
Una |
11 |
Ari roa |
Ohua |
Huna |
Maharu |
Huka |
Maaru |
12 |
Mawharu |
Owaru |
Mohalu |
Hua |
Mehau |
Ua |
13 |
Maurea |
Hua |
Hua |
Maitu |
Hua |
E atua (or Maitu) |
14 |
Atua whakahaehae |
Mawharu |
Akua |
Hotu |
Atua |
O Tu |
15 |
Turu |
Outua |
Hoko |
Mara`i |
Hutu nui |
Marangi |
16 |
Rakau nui |
Ohotu |
Mahealani |
Turutea |
Hutu manae |
Oturu |
17 |
Rakau matohi |
Maure |
Kulu |
Raau mua |
Tuu |
Rakau |
18 |
Takirau |
Oturu |
Laau ku kahi |
Raau roto |
Aniwa |
Rakau roto |
19 |
Oika |
Rakau nui |
Laau ku lua |
Raau muri |
Ms tahi |
Rakau aka oti |
20 |
Korekore |
Rakau motohe |
Laau pau |
Oreore mua |
Kaau |
Korekore |
21 |
Korekore turua |
Takirau |
Ole ku kahi |
Oreore roto |
Kaekae tahi |
Korekore roto |
22 |
Korekore piri ki Tangaroa |
Oika |
Ole ku lua |
Oreore muri |
Waena |
Korekore aka oti |
23 |
Tangaroa a mua |
Korekore tutahi |
Ole pau |
Taaroa mua |
Haa pao |
Tangaroa |
24 |
Tangaroa a roto |
Korekore turua |
Kaloa ku kahi |
Taaroa roto |
Hanao tahi |
Tangaroa roto |
25 |
Tangaroa kiokio |
Korekore whakapau |
Kaloa ku lua |
Taaroa muri |
Wawena |
Tangaroa aka oti |
26 |
O Tane |
Tangarņ a mua |
Kaloa pau |
Tane |
Haa paa |
O Tane |
27 |
O Rongo nui |
Tangarņ a roto |
Kane |
Roo nui |
Puhiwa |
Rongo nui |
28 |
Mauri |
Tangarņ kikio |
Lono |
Roo maori |
Tane |
Mauri |
29 |
O Mutu |
O Tane |
Mauli |
Mutu |
Ona nui |
O Mutu |
30 |
Mutuwhenua |
O Rongo nui |
Muku |
Teriere |
Ona mate |
Otire o Avaiki (or Otireo) |
31 |
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O Rongo mori |
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The Marquesan 19th
night has a name which must be some
kind of mistake: Ms tahi.
There cannot be two consonant
following each other without a vocal
in between.
Now let us focus on the red-marked nights:
MAORI |
MORIORI |
HAWAIIAN |
TAHITIAN |
MARQUESAN |
RAROTONGAN |
Huna |
Ohua |
Huna |
Tamatea |
Huna |
Una |
Ari roa |
Owaru |
Mohalu |
Huna |
Ai |
Maaru |
Mawharu |
Hua |
Hua |
Ari |
Huka |
Ua |
Maurea |
Mawharu |
Akua |
Maharu |
Mehau |
E atua (or Maitu) |
Atua whakahaehae |
Outua |
Hoko |
Hua |
Hua |
O Tu |
Turu |
Ohotu |
Mahealani |
Maitu |
Atua |
Marangi |
Rakau nui |
Maure |
Kulu |
Hotu |
Hutu nui |
Oturu |
Rakau matohi |
Oturu |
Laau ku kahi |
Mara`i |
Hutu manae |
Rakau |
Takirau |
Rakau nui |
Laau ku lua |
Turutea |
Tuu |
Rakau roto |
Oika |
Rakau motohe |
Laau pau |
Raau mua |
Aniwa |
Rakau aka oti |
10 |
Takirau |
10 |
Raau roto |
Ms tahi |
10 |
Oika |
Raau muri |
Kaau |
There are three calendars with 10
central glyphs and three with 12.
Tamatea in the first place in
the Tahitian calendar is included by
me to avoid the 'impossible' number
11, although there are similar names
in the non-central glyphs in other
calendars:
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MAORI |
MORIORI |
HAWAIIAN |
TAHITIAN |
MARQUESAN |
RAROTONGAN |
1 |
Whiro |
O Mutu |
Hilo |
Hiro hiti |
Tu nui |
Iro |
2 |
Tirea |
O Whiro |
Hoaka |
Hoata |
Tu hawa |
Oata |
3 |
Hoata |
Otere |
Ku kahi |
Hami ami mua |
Hoata |
Amiama |
4 |
One |
Ohewata |
Ku lua |
Hami ami roto |
Mahea ma tahi |
Amiama aka oti |
5 |
Okou |
Oua |
Ku kolu |
Hami ami muri |
Mahea ma waena |
Tamatea |
6 |
Tamatea kai ariki |
Okoro |
Ku pau |
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Tamatea aka oti |
7 |
Tamatea ananga |
Tamate tutahi |
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8 |
Tamatea aio |
Tamate turna |
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Tamatea |
Poipoi haa pao |
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9 |
Tamatea whakapau |
Tamate nui |
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Huna |
Huna |
O Vari |
10 |
Huna |
Tamate hokopą |
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Ari |
Ai |
Una |
11 |
Ari roa |
Ohua |
Huna |
Maharu |
Huka |
Maaru |
12 |
Mawharu |
Owaru |
Mohalu |
Hua |
Mehau |
Ua |
13 |
Maurea |
Hua |
Hua |
Maitu |
Hua |
E atua (or Maitu) |
14 |
Atua whakahaehae |
Mawharu |
Akua |
Hotu |
Atua |
O Tu |
15 |
Turu |
Outua |
Hoko |
Mara`i |
Hutu nui |
Marangi |
16 |
Rakau nui |
Ohotu |
Mahealani |
Turutea |
Hutu manae |
Oturu |
17 |
Rakau matohi |
Maure |
Kulu |
Raau mua |
Tuu |
Rakau |
18 |
Takirau |
Oturu |
Laau ku kahi |
Raau roto |
Aniwa |
Rakau roto |
19 |
Oika |
Rakau nui |
Laau ku lua |
Raau muri |
Ms tahi |
Rakau aka oti |
20 |
|
Rakau motohe |
Laau pau |
|
Kaau |
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21 |
|
Takirau |
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Kaekae tahi |
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22 |
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Oika |
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Waena |
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23 |
Tangaroa a mua |
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Taaroa mua |
Haa pao |
Tangaroa |
24 |
Tangaroa a roto |
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Kaloa ku kahi |
Taaroa roto |
Hanao tahi |
Tangaroa roto |
25 |
Tangaroa kiokio |
|
Kaloa ku lua |
Taaroa muri |
Wawena |
Tangaroa aka oti |
26 |
O Tane |
Tangarņ a mua |
Kaloa pau |
Tane |
Haa paa |
O Tane |
27 |
O
Rongo nui |
Tangarņ a roto |
Kane |
Roo nui |
Puhiwa |
Rongo nui |
28 |
Mauri |
Tangarņ kikio |
Lono |
Roo maori |
Tane |
Mauri |
29 |
O Mutu |
O Tane |
Mauli |
Mutu |
Ona nui |
O Mutu |
30 |
Mutuwhenua |
O Rongo nui |
Muku |
Teriere |
Ona mate |
Otire o Avaiki (or Otireo) |
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31 |
O Rongo mori |
I have here red-marked both
Tamate(a) glyphs and Tane
glyphs in order to make the
comparison between the calendars
more easy, and I therefore also
eliminated kokore nights
(where the empty cells are).
The empty cells are
parallel with Tamatea nights
in other calendars. Either the
kokore nights once were
Tamatea nights or the other way
around, I think.
It is quite clear that Tamate(a)
glyphs arrive before the full moon
season and Tane glyphs
afterwards. Tangaroa glyphs
(black-marked) always are located
after the full moon season.
During the full moon season we find
the rakau glyphs
(green-marked). Rongo glyphs
(also green above) follows after
Tane glyphs, though here the
Easter Islanders seem to have made a
mistake:
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Ca8-8 |
Ca8-9 |
Ca8-10 |
Tapume |
Matua |
Orongo |
7 |
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Ca8-16 |
Ca8-17 |
Ca8-18 |
Ca8-19 |
Ca8-20 |
Ca8-21 |
Orongo Tane |
Maśri-nui |
Maśri-kero |
Omutu |
Tireo |
Tapume and
Matua we do not recognize from
the other calendars, while Maśri
and Omutu are recognizably at
their correct places (following each
other after Tane and Rongo).
The central full moon glyphs again:
MAORI |
MORIORI |
HAWAIIAN |
TAHITIAN |
MARQUESAN |
RAROTONGAN |
Huna |
Ohua |
Huna |
Tamatea |
Huna |
Una |
Ari roa |
Owaru |
Mohalu |
Huna |
Ai |
Maaru |
Mawharu |
Hua |
Hua |
Ari |
Huka |
Ua |
Maurea |
Mawharu |
Akua |
Maharu |
Mehau |
E atua (or Maitu) |
Atua whakahaehae |
Outua |
Hoko |
Hua |
Hua |
O Tu |
Turu |
Ohotu |
Mahealani |
Maitu |
Atua |
Marangi |
Rakau nui |
Maure |
Kulu |
Hotu |
Hutu nui |
Oturu |
Rakau matohi |
Oturu |
Laau ku kahi |
Mara`i |
Hutu manae |
Rakau |
Takirau |
Rakau nui |
Laau ku lua |
Turutea |
Tuu |
Rakau roto |
Oika |
Rakau motohe |
Laau pau |
Raau mua |
Aniwa |
Rakau aka oti |
10 |
Takirau |
10 |
Raau roto |
Ms tahi |
10 |
Oika |
Raau muri |
Kaau |
Maharu arrives
before Hua not only according
to the Easter Islanders, but also
according to the Rarotongans (Maaru
and Ua) and Tahitians.
Probably the Hawaiian Mohalu
equals Maharu and then also
the Hawaiians agree with this order.
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Ca7-13 |
Ca7-14 |
Ca7-15 |
Ca7-16 |
Maharu |
Ohua |
Otua |
28 |
4 |
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Ca7-21 |
Ca7-22 |
Ca7-23 |
Ca7-24 |
Maśre |
Ina-ira |
Rakau |
Omotohi |
I have black-marked
also the Marquesan Mehau
because it comes immediately before
Hua and sound relatively
similar to Maharu. It may be
a word-play involving haś.
The Moriori Hua
comes before their Mawharu,
which is strange. On the other hand
they have Owaru immediately
before Hua. It seems to be a
duplication: Ohua - Owaru
followed by Hua and
Mawharu. Maybe the Moriori have
converted Huna in the other
calendars to Ohua?
The Marquesan order
is interesting: Huna, Ai,
Huka, Mehau, Hua,
Atua ... Their Ai is
probably corresponding to the Maori
Ari roa, and thus we have agreement
in the first two positions (also
with the Tahitians):
MAORI |
MARQ. |
TAHITI |
Huna |
Huna |
Huna |
Ari roa |
Ai |
Ari |
The other calendars
have Huna too, but not Ari.
(Moriori Ohua I guess is a
reflection of Huna).
The Easter Islanders
did not have Ari, nor Huna.
The beginning was Ohiro and
Oata, followed by kokore
nights and then Maharu:
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Ca6-22 |
Ca6-23 |
Ca6-24 |
Ohiro |
Oata |
Both Ohiro and
Oata (as well as the final
Tireo) can be found in other
Polynesian calendars.
There were 6 +
5 = 11 kokore nights on
Easter Island, while the number of
such nights in other Polyensian
calendars were fewer:
Maori |
0 + 3 |
3 |
Moriori |
0 + 3 |
3 |
Hawaii |
4 + 3 |
7 |
Tahiti |
2 + 3 |
5 |
Marquesas |
2 +
1 |
3 |
Rarotonga |
2 + 3 |
5 |
Easter Island |
6 + 5 |
11 |
Here I have
manipulated in the Marquesan
numbers: I could not accept an
even number (2) in spite of
earlier above having eliminated
only 2 nights as kokore:
6 |
Koekoe tahi |
7 |
Koekoe waena |
21 |
Kaekae tahi |
Beyond 20, the
21st night has a name similar to
Koekoe tahi (the first
tapu-free night). Presumably
also Kaekae tahi was a
tapu-free night. Though then
another problem appears: tahi
means 'first' which implies
other kaekae nights coming
after.
Like the Hawaiians (with 7
tapu-free nights) the Easter
Islands seem to have lost
several tapu-nights, or
at least the special names of
several nights.
On the other
hand, the number pattern 4 + 3 =
7 in the Hawaiian calendar is
rather suggestive. Number 4
during 'a.m.' and the young (Tamatea?)
sun (alternatively kokore
in other calendars) seems to be
a basic pattern. During 'e.m.' 3
Tangaroa (old sun?)
nights likewise was basic, and
we can between Tamatea
and Tangaroa add 3
Rakau and 3 kokore
nights:
Tamatea |
4 |
Rakau |
3 |
Kokore |
3 |
Tangaroa |
3 |
sum |
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