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TRANSLATIONS
Among the many peculiar ideas which circulate in my mind this one should be put on the table: In the Swedish language, when we count we say: 'ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv, tretton ...'. The word for number 9, nio, is strangely similar to the Polynesian niu:
Niu, the coconut tree, is the tree par excellence in Polynesia, and also the tree of their mythology. It should represent the central pillar. And it also represents the eel-god Tuna. ... Maui ... cut off Tuna's head to take it to his ancestor. But Huahega his mother took it from him and she said: 'You must bury this head of Tuna beside the post in the corner of our house.' Maui did so, and that head grew up, it sprouted, it became a coconut tree. On the nut which is its fruit we see the face of Tuna, eyes and mouth. All coconuts have this ... In G the moon hole comes 4 days after the sun tree:
There is no sign of any niu. In G there is no perfect example of niu at all:
Ga2-29 seems to be the best fit. It stands not very far from the 'water edge'. Counted from Gb8-30 it is number 60. The 'water edge' could be defined by the equinoxes, e.g. in spring:
We don't know. The nuku shape in Ga1-26 could mean the 'autumn' is leaving in some kind of double canoe. In Tahua, we should remember, niu seems to be located in winter:
9 is located at the very edge of our digits. Sun once had 13 houses, and Aa1-13 presumably represents the last one of them. The serpent constellation was later covered up (puo), and the central part of hua poporo in Aa1-14 (where the cycle ends) is a puo sign. A wordplay again: puo is the opposite of pou (pillar). With niu (nio) at the end of the cycle, it should be at the top of the tree (where Maui was born). The root of the tree must be at the other end of the cycle (two of them in a year). The tree is assembled during spring and ready at summer solstice. That is where we find the root of the tree. Rangitokona put 10 segments together to push the sky roof up. In G there are 31 henua periods. With 180 in length, each of 10 segments would be 18 days long. Each such segment could be regarded as 3 * 6 days, i.e. 3 'weeks' long. Saturn's day is outside that part of the week which is illuminated. Saturn comes last, when the fire has been quenched by water. The Mayan Rain God first climbs the tree and then goes down into the earth (of course by some kind of hole), he must be planting the nut from which the new tree will grow. Then comes the rain:     Before climbing the tree he is making marks with his feet, he is walking on earth and has a staff for his help, maybe also a bag of seed tucked under his arm. 3 feet long is the measure and 14 toes are added, '14 more'. The head of the tree is at bottom, it has turned 180° since winter solstice. It presumably represents the Milky Way. If my ideas are correct, we can predict there will never be a niu glyph at summer solstice, because it symbolizes the fully grown tree standing upright. Time for a myth: "Maui muri lived in that land from which our people came, in Rarotonga. Manu ahi whare was his father. Tongo i whare was the mother. They were offspring of the god Great Tangaroa-of-the-tattoed face. These were all the children of those two: Maui mua the first-born son; Maui roto the second-born son; Hina ika the daughter; and Maui muri the last-born son, the potiki, his sister's pet. Those children played at hiding. One day Hina hid small Maui underneath some leaves and rotten wood, and she said to her elder brothers, 'Find your brother'. They-two searched and searched, nowhere could they find their little Maui. Therefore Hina pointed to the heap of sticks and leaves. That heap had vanished! All the leaves and sticks were scattered on the ground. No Maui muri! This was the first time that those three knew what their brother was, what he could do ..." (Myth from Manihiki, according to Legends of the South Seas) |
