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TRANSLATIONS
The drops beyond
solstice are due
to gravity, the
force making the
berries return
to earth. They
will die and
return again
next season. The
drops of rain
happen to
coincide with
fall.
Falling on his
face we no
longer can see
his face. We
enter (popo)
the hare
paega of the
year and inside
it is dark.
The sun canoe is
turned upside
down. 4
youngsters
(promising lads)
will turn it
upside up later.
On the first day
of the new year
the miro-one
festival is due.
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In the 24th
(final) period of the E calendar another 3-droplet hua poporo
is located as number 12 counted from Rei in Eb5-32:
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I wonder what
'resurrected'
basically means
and investigate
by way of
English
Etymology:
resurrection
... rising again
of Jesus Christ
from the dead or
of all men at
the Last Day ...
f. pp. stem of
L. resurgere
... in ChrL.
rendering Gr.
ανάστασις ...
resurge
... rise again
...
surge1
... fountain,
source ...
rolling swell of
the sea ...
(naut.) slipping
back of a rope
wound round a
capstan ...
surge2
... † toss or
ride on the
waves; † rise,
spring; swell or
heave, as a
large wave ...
(naut.) slip
back, as a rope,
etc. ... Cat.
sorgir,
anchor,
surgir,
land ... L.
surgere
rise, beside
surrigere,
f.
sub
... +
regere,
rule ...
(Wikipedia)
The first night
in the lunar
calendar
probably was
Ohiro, which
I have located
as Ca6-22:
...when the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had
died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou
has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has
bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is
no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas'... (Makemson)
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Ohirohiro Waterspout (more exactly
pú ohirohiro), a column of water which rises spinning on
itself. Vanaga. |
I think there is
a double pattern
of renewal:
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moon |
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Eb5-32 |
Eb6-1 |
Eb6-2 |
Eb6-3 |
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1 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
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sun |
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... |
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Eb6-4 |
Eb6-8 |
Eb6-9 |
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1 |
5 |
6 |
Eb6-2 has ihe
tau with
maro,
meaning that
ihe tau is
'finished',
while Eb6-9 is
expressing the
same idea by
turning ihe
tau
backwards ('on
its face'). The
dorsal fin is on
the back of the
fish:
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One, sand. Oneone (reduplication of
oone which see below), dirty, covered in soil, in mud.
Vanaga.
Oone, ground, soil; mud; dirty, to get
dirty. Vanaga.
One, sword. (Cf. oe, dorsal fin;
àè, sword.) Ta.: óé, sword, lance. Churchill.
Oone, sand, clay, dirt, soil, mire,
mud, muck, gravel, filth, manure, dust, to dirty; ao oone,
shovel; egu oone vehuvehu, mud; moo te oone,
shovel; oone hekaheka, mud; puo ei oone, to daub;
kerihaga oone, husbandman; oone veriveri, mud;
oone no, muck, to dirty, to powder; vai oone, roiled
water; oone rari, marsh, swamp; oonea, dirty T;
ooneoone, sandy; oonevai, clay T; hakaoone, to
pollute, to soil. P Mgv.: one, land in general, earth,
soil. Mq.: one, sand, beach. Ta.: one, sand, dust,
gravel. Churchill. |
We should here
remember the
flounder and the
lobster. I have
written much
from that point
of origin.
Possibly much
also is
necessary to
reiterate:
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"Lobster said to Flounder: 'Let us-two hide from each other, see
who is best at that.' Flounder agreed to play this game. Lobster
went to a hole in the coral, hid his body; but his feelers
struck out, he could not hide them. Flounder knew where he was,
found him.
Said Flounder; 'Now it is my turn.' He stirred up a cloud of mud
and scooted into it. Then he returned to Lobster's side, so
quietly that Lobster did not know he was there. 'Here I am sir,
Lobster!'
Lobster was so angry at being beaten that he stamped on the fish
and smashed him flat. Cried Flounder; 'Now I've got one eye in
the mud!' Therefore Lobster gouged it out for him and roughly
stuck it back on top.
This is the reason why men tread on the Flounder, but can always
see the Lobster's feelers outside his hole." (Legends of the
South Seas) |
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... Next I remembered the
glyphs around midsummer:
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Aa4-55 |
Aa4-56 |
Aa4-57 |
Aa4-58 |
Aa4-59 |
Aa4-60 |
Aa4-61 |
Aa4-62 |
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ko te tagata |
kua rere ki te
manu |
ki te ihe - kua
rere te manu |
ki te ragi |
ko te manu kua
agau - ki te ihe |
e pare tuu ki te
ragi |
e hanau |
ki
to ihe - te manu kua rere |
One 'eye' in Aa4-58 becomes
two in Aa4-60. Possibly this development alludes to the Flounder
having his eye-in-the-mud excavated and transplanted onto the
upside.
Metoro
said ragi and the Flounder should then be not the
physical land but the land in the sky, i.e. that part of the sky
which is centered around the south celestial pole. At midsummer
sun is closer to that part of the sky than during the rest of
the year ... |
| ... It was the little
story about the Flounder and the Lobster which made me realize
how Maui fishing up land could be connected with summer
solstice. That was important and necessitated a deviation from
the plan. If the Lobster (down in the water of course) inhabits
winter solstice and the Flounder inhabits summer solstice
(digging down in the mud - i.e. the earth), then the story
confirms a view of the year divided into a (sea) watery part and
an above water (land) part. Could we find lobsters and flounders
among the glyphs they might indicate 'winter' respectively
'summer'. The
23rd station of the kuhane is (Maunga) Peke Tau
O Hiti and peke possibly alludes to the lobster.
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Peke
1.
To bite (of fish or lobster pecking at fishhook). 2.
To repeat an action: he-peke te rua; ina ekó
peke-hakaou te rua don't you do it a second
time; ina ekó peke hakaou-mai te rua ara,
don't come back here again. Vanaga.
To
succeed, to follow. Churchill. |
Barthel wrote:
... The segment peke of place name 23 suggests (by way of
MAO.) some type of insect (for example, pepeke 'insect,
beetle'; pekeriki' 'lice, vermin'; peketua
'centipede') ...
Peketua,
centipede, 100 feet, now makes me think of tu'a (the back
side) and of another measure of plenty, peka, which also
is a creature in the sea:
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Peka
Pekapeka,
starfish. Vanaga.
1. 100,000 T. 2.
A cross; pekapeka, curly; pekapekavae,
instep T. (? shoelaces.); hakapeka, to cross;
hakapekapeka, to interlace, lattice. T Mgv.:
peka, a cross, athwart, across; pepeka,
thick, only said of a number of shoots or sprouts in
a close bunch. Mq.: peka, a cross, dense
thicket. Ta.: pea, a cross. Churchill. |
I did not notice
this earlier, but recently we have put the cross structure in
focus: the instrument of darkness - meaning movement (life,
action) ... |
... In the 10th
period it is henua ora which I have interpreted as the
beach (the harbour), not vero (which comes in the 11th
period).
At summer solstice
(11th period) sun is still, standing (close to) zenith.
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Tini
To
be at the zenith: ku-tini-á te raá; middle of
a journey, of a period of time; te tini o te raá,
the middle of the day. Vanaga.
1. A
great number, innumerable, infinite, indefinite.
Tinitini, million, billion. T Pau.: tinitini,
innumerable. Mgv.: tini, a countless number,
infinite. Mq.: tini, id. Ta.: tini,
numerous. 2. Raa tini, noon; tini po,
midnight; te tini te raa, zenith; topa
tini, abortion.
Churchill. |
It is the time of the
Flounder:
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Aa4-58 |
Aa4-59 |
Aa4-60 |
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ki te ragi |
ko te manu kua
agau - ki te ihe |
e
pare tuu ki te ragi |
Maybe Aa4-58 and
-60 have outlines somewhat like the shape of vero? The
flounder pushes mud upwards and Maui draws the islands up
from the deep. A fish on land cannot swim anymore.
Did Maui
then as Huahega told him, did as his mother said. That
wave fell back, the great wave of the monsters soaked away. The
bottom of the sea was bare, and all the monsters floundered on
the reef, they flapped in pools. And Maui went out, he
went with his weapon and he beat them dead, each one. He killed
them all, excepting Tuna. Then Tuna went to
Maui's house with him and they two lived together quietly.
One day Tuna said: 'We two are to fight this out. When
one of us is dead, the other can have the woman.'
Low tide should correspond
to the time when the sand is exposed to the rays of the sun. We
remember the flounder ... |
| ... Let me first, though,
insert here in the middle of the ongoing discussion about
orientation of 'knees' a piece to the puzzle about the Flounder
and GD81 (pare):
... The ancient
Chinese believed that with the arrival of the dry season the
earth and sky ceased to communicate (Granet, p. 315, n. 1).
The Spirit of
drought was personified by a little bald woman31
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Hills and rivers are the first to suffer from drought. It
deprives hills of their trees, i.e. their hair, and rivers of
their fish, which are their people ...
The same word,
wang, means mad, deceitful, lame, hunchbacked, bald and
Spirit of drought (Schafer).
with eyes at the
top of her head. While she was present, the sky refrained from
sending rain, so as not to harm her (ibid., n. 3) ... "
(From Honey to Ashes)
The little bald woman with
eyes at the top of her head surely reminds us about the Flounder:
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"Flounder (rarely: flukes) are flatfish that live in
ocean waters ie., Northern Atlantic and waters along
the east coast of the United States and Canada, and
the Pacific Ocean, as well. The name 'flounder'
refers to several geographically and taxonomically
distinct species. In Europe, the name flounder
refers to Platichthys flesus, in the Western
Atlantic there are the summer flounder
Paralichthys dentatus, southern flounder
Paralichthys lethostigma, and the winter
flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus, among
other species. In Japan, the Japanese flounder
Paralichthys olivaceus is common.
While
flounders have both eyes situated on one side of the
head, flukes are not born this way. Their life
involves metamorphosis. During metamorphosis, one
eye migrates to the other side of the body so that
both eyes are situated on the upward-facing side of
its body. After metamorphosis, flounders lie on one
side on the ocean floor; either the left or right
side might face upward depending on the species ...
Flounder are ambush predators and their feeding
ground is the soft mud of the sea bottom, near
bridge piles, docks, and other bottom incumbrances;
they are sometimes found on bass grounds as well.
Their diet consists mainly of fish spawn,
crustaceans, polychaetes and small fish ..."
(Wikipedia) |
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"Fluke1
... flat fish, esp. the flounder ... ult. IE.
*plaq- is further repr. by Gr. plakoûs,
L. placenta flat cake.
Fluke2
... triangular plate on either arm of an anchor ...
triangular extremity of a whale's tail ...
Fluke3
... (orig. billiards) successful stroke made by
chance ..." (English Etymology) |
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