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Moko is evidently responsible for
'reincarnating' the 'spirit' of the previous
spring, after Mars has disposed of the intruder
(his 'tanist')
who took his place as 'star' in the top of the
Tree.
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The divine names Bran, Saturn, Cronos ... are
applied to the ghost of Hercules that floats off
in the alder-wood boat after his midsummer
sacrifice.
His
tanist, or other self, appearing in Greek legend
as Poeas who lighted Hercules' pyre and
inherited his arrows, succeeds him for the
second half of the year; having acquired royal
virtue by marriage with the queen, the
representative of the White Goddess, and by
eating some royal part of the dead man's body -
heart, shoulder or thigh-flesh.
He
is in turn succeeded by the New Year Hercules, a
reincarnation of the murdered man, who beheads
him and, apparently, eats his head. This
alternate eucharistic sacrifice made royalty
continous, each king in turn the Sun-god beloved
of the reigning Moon-goddess.
But when these cannibalistic rites were
abandoned and the system was gradually modified
until a single king reigned for a term of years,
Saturn-Cronos-Bran became a mere Old Year ghost,
permanently overthrown by Juppiter-Zeus-Belin
though yearly conjured up for placation at the
Saturnalia or Yule feast ...
This once in a year occurrence explains
why in G there is only one glyph line with
moko glyphs:
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This
time we will begin with the 4 last glyphs in
line Ca9:
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Ca9-24 (252) |
Ca9-25 |
Ca9-26 |
Ca9-27 |
In Ca9-24 we can count
9 * 24 = 216 = 12 * 18 and
252 = 14 * 18. Perhaps it
means 26 * 18 = 468?
In Ca9-25 Saturday is appropriately illustrated by
mea ke (a sign of
darkness). As to the
following (and preceding)
inoino signs we must wait
until that chapter.
But the triplet of tagata figures
in Moon day means
hakaariki ('to make a
king'), we can learn from
Metoro. The triplet is a
unity, and the square of 3
is 9 while its cube is
27. It is the last glyph in
the line which accentuates
its importance. Line Ca9 is
also conspiciously short in
its number of glyphs.
The
first 16 glyphs in line Ca10 ought to form a
group (with the 16th glyph being number 20
counted from Ca9-24):
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There
are 29 glyphs in line Ca10 and counting from
Venus in Ca10-17 there are 13 glyphs to the end
of the line:
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Possiby the first 20 glyphs from kara etahi
should be regarded as twice 10:
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Glyph line Ca11 has 32 glyphs, which I guess
means Spring Sun now is once again in charge (4
+ 32 = 36).
The
ihe tau sign
appears together with the moko
glyphs, which possibly means the season of
moko is over:
If we consider the first 92
glyphs on side a as
belonging to the end of the
text on the back side of the
tablet and if
we also consider the glyphs in
line Ca12 to belong on the
back side, then
the number of glyphs of the
back side will be 348 + 92 +
29 = 469.
469 can be read as 46 * 9 =
414 (or 'one more' than 14 *
29.5 = 413). And, we should
remember, in Ca9-24 we can count to 26 * 18 =
468 (= 9 * 24 + 252), i.e. Saturn in Ca9-25 can
be regarded as 'one more' (= 469 - 468):
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And the summary page:
Evidently moko glyphs appear at the end
of calendar cycles, or to be more exact - after
Old Sun has been 'killed' and a New Sun must
arrive.
In C
there is a moko which is followed by a
peculiar manu rere without eye:
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end of Old Sun |
4
black nights |
birth of New Sun |
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Ca4-20 |
Ca4-21 |
Ca4-22 |
Ca4-23 |
Ca4-24 |
Ca4-25 |
Manu rere apparently
means a free-moving spirit
and this 'bird' can be
interpreted as an insect:
... From a religious
point of view, the high
regard for flies, whose
increase or reduction
causes a similar
increase or reduction in
the size of the human
population, is
interesting, even more
so because swarms of
flies are often a real
nuisance on Easter
Island, something most
visitors have commented
on in vivid language.
The explanation seems to
be that there is a
parallel relationship
between flies and human
souls, in this case, the
souls of the unborn.
There is a widespread
belief throughout
Polynesia that insects
are the embodiment of
numinous beings, such as
gods or the spirits of
the dead, and this
concept extends into
Southeast Asia, where
insects are seen as the
embodiment of the soul
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When the eye has been
removed from manu rere
it presumably means the
spirit is no longer 'alive',
i.e. it has been
reincarnated. The function
of moko is to
'swallow the eye of the
insect'. Thereby the life spirit
becomes 'incorporated'
again. The mythical moko probably
is referring to the gecko lizard, who
lives on insects high up in
the ceiling:
On Hawaii the
swallowing procedure was
entrusted to the
ceremonial double of the
king:
... The Makahiki
effigy is dismantled and
hidden away in a rite
watched over by the
king's 'living god',
Kahoali'i or
'The-Companion-of-the-King',
the one who is also
known as 'Death-is-Near'
(Koke-na-make).
Close kinsman of the
king as his ceremonial
double, Kahoali'i
swallows the eye of the
victim in ceremonies of
human sacrifice ...
Yet, also on Hawaii moko
was known as the one who
knew when time was ripe:
... When
the man, Ulu,
returned to his wife
from his visit to the
temple at Puueo,
he said, 'I have heard
the voice of the noble
Mo'o, and he has
told me that tonight, as
soon as darkness draws
over the sea and the
fires of the volcano
goddess, Pele,
light the clouds over
the crater of
Mount
Kilauea, the
black cloth will cover
my head ...
The other side of death
is the growth of a new
generation, which
explains the growing
'3-fingered' (spring) maro
sign at top right in
Ca4-24:
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Ca4-23 |
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