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There is an
old Chinese statement:
From One comes Two, and
from Two comes Three. From Three everything else will then be
generated.
This idea agrees
with Spring measuring 3.
Toru can be
imagined as to followed by a qualifying ru.
| To 1. Particle sometimes
used with the article in ancient legends; i uto to te hau,
the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise (of the sun) during the
morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga.
1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to,
genitive sign. Mq.: to, of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill.
Mgv.: To, to make a canoe of planks. Mq.:
to, to build a canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill. |
If toru is
the number symbolizing 'generation', then of course to will
fit as a genitive sign.
To 'make a canoe
of planks' (to) makes me remember the first king, Oto Uta,
because he was supposed to be taken on board but was mysteriously
'left behind':
... At the time of the loading of the emigrant canoe, Hotu Matua
ordered his assistant Teke to take a (stone) figure (moai)
named 'Oto Uta' on board the canoe, along with the people (aniva)
who were emigrating. However, the figure was left behind 'out in the
bay' ...
Oto could
be O-To. And the old expression i uto to te hau (the
ribbon was in the float) rings like an 'upside down' version of
Oto Uta. The ribbon (te hau) was 'on board' (i uto to),
but not king Oto Uta.
A float (uto)
is something else than a canoe, maybe we should regard it as the
opposite of a canoe. Maybe King Oto Uta must be transported
on a raft and not in a canoe. A float (uto) is presumably
u-to, and the added to (to build) determines that it is a
float and not some other aspect of u. For the Maya indians
U meant the Moon.
The sea is tai
in contrast to uplands, uta. The generative sign (to)
should not be down in the bay, because the qualifying Uta in
king Oto Uta says so. His place is on land and in the journey
of Sun he reaches 'land' in spring, arriving from the 'sea'.
A raft is a flat
horizontal structure (to) of timbers, reeds, or planks, while
a canoe has its boards standing on edge. If a statue was on board a
canoe it would not be visible, that is the essential difference.
Spring Sun must be
visible. He cannot be transported onboard a canoe. The last evidence
proves the case:
To means 'to
rise (of the sun) during the morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá'.
To in
toru is now known. The qualifying '-ru', what does it
signify?
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Ru
A chill, to shiver, to shudder, to quake;
manava ru, groan. Ruru, fever, chill, to
shiver, to shake, to tremble, to quiver, to vibrate,
commotion, to apprehend, moved, to agitate, to strike
the water, to print; manava ruru, alarm; rima
ruru, to shake hands. P Pau.: ruru, to shake,
to tremble. Mgv.: ru, to shiver with cold, to
shake with fever, to tremble. Mq.: ú, to tremble,
to quiver. Ta.: ruru, to tremble. Churchill.
Ruru, to tremble, an
earthquake. Sa.: lūlū,
lue, to
shake. To.: luelue,
to roll; lulu,
to shake. Fu.: lulū,
to tremble, to shake, to agitate. Niuē: luelue,
to shake; lūlū,
to shake, to be shaken. Nuguria: ruhe,
motion of the hands in dancing; luhe henua,
an earthquake. Uvea, Ha.: lu,
lulu,
lululu, to shake, to
tremble, to flap. Fotuna: no-ruruia,
to shake. Ma.: ru,
ruru, to
shake, an earthquake. Ta., Rarotonga, Rapanui, Pau.:
ruru, to
shake, to tremble. Mgv.: ru,
to tremble; ruru,
to shake. Mq.: uu,
to shake the head in negation; uuuu,
to shake up. Uvea: ue i,
to shake; ueue,
to move. Rapanui: ueue,
to shake. Churchill 2. |
It signifies
'movement'. This becomes understandable when we contemplate the
opposite. To be still means to be dead. Te Kaiga (Spring)
cannot be still - it must up and jump around. |
