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We can now tentatively put the one who died, Te Ohiro A Te Runu, at the end of spring (because of Mercury and because Ohiro is the 1st night in the month) and the one who lived, Nga Tavake A Te Rona, late in autumn because the opposite of quick Mercury must be slow Saturn. Maybe the 'tug-of-war' is between the quick and the slow. Or between life (Mercury) and death (Saturn).

Te Ohiro makes an association to Moon necessary and therefore we ought to put Nga Tavake in a relationship to Sun. Waxing and waning are not 'hard wired' to Sun respectively to Moon, because these aspects are general and basic and can be applied to any cycle:

 

front side

back side

Moon

Ohiro

 

Sun

 

Tavake

Moreover, Te Ohiro is not Ohiro. Maybe we should fill in the empty space of Sun's front side with Te Ohiro and the empty space of Moon's back side with Nga Tavake. In the 1st list of place names Te and Nga serve as markers to be interpreted.

We can add the 'planetary costumes' which Moon and Sun are wearing:

Moon

Mercury

Ohiro

Sun

Saturn

Tavake

Ga Vaka ('Canoes'), Alpha and Beta Centauri, according to Vanaga, is also something to keep in mind.

These stars lie in the Galaxy and south of Scorpio. Ana-mua (Antares in Scorpio) marks the beginning of summer south of the equator, and as such it is connected with the path of Sun.

 

1

nga kope ririva tutuu vai a te taanga

2

te pu mahore a hau maka o hiva

3

te poki uri a hau maka i hiva

4

te manavai a hau maka o hiva

5

te kioe uri a hau maka o hiva

6

te piringa aniva a hau maka o hiva

7

te pei a hau maka o hiva

8

te pou a hau maka o hiva

9

hua reva a hau maka o hiva

10

akahanga a hau maka o hiva

11

hatinga te kohe a hau maka o hiva

12

roto iri are a hau maka o hiva

13

tama he ika kino he ihu roroa

14

one tea a hau maka o hiva

15

hanga takaure a hau maka o hiva

16

poike a hau maka o hiva

17

pua katiki a hau maka o hiva

18

maunga teatea a hau maka o hiva

19

mahatua a hau maka o hiva

20

taharoa a hau maka o hiva

21

hanga hoonu a hau maka o hiva

22

rangi meamea a hau maka o hiva

23

peke tau o hiti a hau maka o hiva

24

mauga hau epa a hau maka o hiva

25

oromanga a hau maka o hiva

26

hanga moria one a hau maka o hiva

27

papa o pea a hau maka a hiva

28

ahu akapu a hau maka a hiva

29

te pito o te kainga a hau maka o hiva

The first 7 kuhane stations on the island proper have names beginning with Te. The 8th of the redmarked items above (Hatinga Te Kohe) has Te inside. I interpret Te as a sign for 'sun-is-present'. In autumn he is no longer present on the island. The black 29th night has one Te at the beginning and one inside in its name. 7 + 1 + 2 = 10.

Nga at the very beginning of the list may be connected with Te Taanga, because he and not Hau Maka 'owns' the 3 islets. The 13th item 'belongs' neither to Te Taanga nor Hau Maka and neither nga nor te is used in the name. Possibly it means Taanga is a person in the generation before Hau Maka while Tama ('the child') is in the generation after.

Double he at Tama may be a sign of 'confusion', 'error' - a 'bad fish' (ika kino):

He

He, article, also verbal prefix. , where? I hé, where; ki hé, whereto; mai hé, wherefrom. Vanaga.

Article. P Mgv., Mq.: e, the. Sa.: se, id. Churchill.

Pau.: He, false, crooked. Mgv.: hehe, crazy, to wander. Ta.: he, error. Mq.: he, confusion. Sa.: sesē, wrong. Ma.: he, a mistake. Churchill.

Mgv.: He, a locust pest of coconuts. Ta.: he, caterpillar. Mq.: he, grasshopper. Sa.: se, id. Ma.: whe, caterpillar. Churchill.

Te

1. The, this, which; ko te, the. T Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: te, the. 2. , negative prepositive; without, not; hiri tê reka, to walk without noise. T Mgv.: te, no, not, without: Mq.: te, not (postpositive). Churchill.

It is probably significant that He is used only at the beginning of 2 of the names of the months, viz. at the beginning and the end of the year:

1

2

3

4

5

6

He Anakena

Hora iti Hora nui Tagaroa uri Ko Ruti Ko Koró

12

11

10

9

8

7

He Maro

Vaitu potu Vaitu nui Tarahao Tehetu'upú Tua haro

Likewise we should notice Te at the beginning of the 8th month (Te-Hetu'u-Pú).

 

 

Vaka means canoe, but vake (in tavake) should be something else. Maybe vake is a cousin of va'e (go away, leave) and I suspect at least a wordplay:

Ovakevake

According to ancient beliefs, the home of the spirits called ákuáku: i Hiva, i Ovakevake. Some natives remember that old people told them that when the first missionaries arrived several ákuáku took their leave, saying that they were returning to Hiva, to Ovakevake. Another place where ákuáku supposedly lived before coming here was, according to the ancient belief, Maru a Pó, in Tahiti

Tavake can be either tava-ke or ta-vake, but the latter alternative seems not very probable, because I have found no word vake as such.

The souls of the dead (ákuáku) could leave this world only by way of the Galaxy, according to the old view. And Ga Vaka are stars low down in the Galaxy, a major station on the way down. South of the equator the souls should move southwards (the shortest way to a pole position).

Hamlet's Mill:

... All 'change stations' are found invariably in two regions: one in the South between Scorpius and Sagittarius, the other in the North between Gemini and Taurus; and this is valid through time and space, from Babylon to Nicaragua. Why was it ever done in the first place? Because of the Galaxy, which has its crossroads with the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpius in the South, and between Gemini and Taurus in the North ...

Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ...

I cannot find Ga Vaka in Makemson. She instead has the following names for these stars:

 

Centaurus

Alpha

Beta

Hawaii

 

Melemele?

Polapola?

Pukapuka

Na Mara-o-te-tokolua

 

 

Na Lua-mata-o-Wua-ma-Velo

Tonga

O-nga-tagata

 

 

Tautanga-ufi

Mamangi-Halahu

Mau-ko-mau

Tuamotu

 

Na Kuhi

Tere

Tere, we know, means to escape:

Tere

1. To run, to flee, to escape from a prison. 2. To sail a boat (also: hakatere); tere vaka, owner of a fishing boat. 3. (Deap-sea) fisherman; tere kahi, tuna fisherman; tere ho'ou, novice fisherman, one who goes deap-sea fishing for the first time. Penei te huru tûai; he-oho te tere ho'ou ki ruga ki te hakanonoga; ana ta'e rava'a, he-avai e te tahi tagata tere vaka i te îka ki a îa mo hakakoa, mo iri-hakaou ki te hakanonoga i te tahi raá. The ancient custom was like this: the novice fisherman would go to a hakanonoga; if he didn't catch anything, another fisherman would give him fishes to make him happy so he'd go again one day to the hakanonoga (more distant fishing zones where larger fishes are found). Vanaga.

To depart, to run, to take leave, to desert, to escape, to go away, to flee, fugitive, to sail, to row, to take refuge, to withdraw, to retreat, to save oneself; terea, rest, defeat; tetere, to beat a retreat, to go away, refugee; teretere, to go away, hurrah; hakatere, to set free, to despatch, to expel, to let go, to liberate, to conquer, helmsman; terega, departure, sailing; teretai, a sailor. Churchill.

And Makemson informs us that Na Kuhi means 'the ancestors'. Our ancestors (nga kuhi) have escaped (tere) from this prison earth by the Milky Way, maybe. Below is a skeleton composed from human and zebra bones (Wikipedia):

According to English Etymology the origin of the word 'centaur' is not known. But I have a guess:

"cenotaph ... sepulchral monument to a person buried elsewhere ... Gr. kenós empty + táphos tomb." (English Etymology)

With the body buried for instance on Easter Island and its soul moving away along the Milky Way the place of burial will not be a cenotaph but its opposite, I suppose, a tomb without a soul.

I suggest 'centaur' means empty + bull, i.e. the season of the mighty spring Bull in heaven is over ('empty').

Empty hands evidently indicate 'finished', and such are not unusual in rona glyphs:

Furthermore, to design a centaur is to give its end to a beast and its front to a man. Or to a woman:

"Though female centaurs, called Kentaurides, are not mentioned in early Greek literature and art, they do appear occasionally in later antiquity. A Macedonian mosaic of the 4th BC is one of the earliest examples of the Centauress in art. Ovid also mentions a centauress named Hylonome who committed suicide when her husband Cyllarus was killed in the war with the Lapiths. In a description of a painting in Neapolis, the Greek rhetorician Philostratus the Elder describes them as sisters and wives of the male centaurs who live on Mount Pelion with their children:

How beautiful the Centaurides are, even where they are horses; for some grow out of white mares, others are attached to chestnut mares, and the coats of others are dappled, but they glisten like those of horses that are well cared for. There is also a white female Centaur that grows out of a black mare, and the very opposition of the colours helps to produce the united beauty of the whole."

(Wikipedia)