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TRANSLATIONS
The brutes of spring caused the downfall of both Captain Cook and Julius Caesar. We are close to the key myth of mankind, that which explains the regeneration of sun and growth. Once at least some people kept the tradition living. I became interested in what really happened at March 15 and reopened Henrikson to find out. Caesar was forewarned of the threat by the prophet Spurinna, who told him that a great threat was coming at Idus Martiae or just before. The day arrived and Caesar was still living, walking to his meeting with the Senate he happened to encounter Spurinna and told him jokingly that he was still alive. Spurinna calmely answered, that the day had yet not ended. The Romans divided their months it two parts and the dividing point was Idus, which is some way was connected with full moon. March 15 was their midpoint of March, which is close to spring equinox. The old agricultural year defined the beginning to the time when sun returned, and it was connected with Mars. I guess I now can understand why the 4th manu rere in the calendar of the week is missing. At manu rere in the glyph dictionary I wrote:
The 'knuckle' of Mars is absent:
The light-bringer Lucifer fell down from heaven. Or he robbed the fire and quickly rushed down with it to the earth to evade the pursuers. There is no manu rere at Mars. This interpretation of the key events leading to the reappearance of light each year - a myth rehearsed annually by nature and man in cooperation - can be read (between the lines of course) also in Henrikson: The chaotic tumult in the Curia (where the Senate had their meeting and where they killed Caesar) resulted in his dead body left lying on the floor, while all the Senators panicked and ran out through the door in different directions. They had planned to throw his body into the river, but the time of plans and order was in the past. Instead, in the afternoon, three of the slaves of Caesar came and fetched his body, and carried him on a stretcher to his home south of Forum - and one arm was hanging down in the corner where the 4th slave should have been. The hand of the dead Caesar was hanging down towards earth. He was a sun king (according to myth) and the sun king follows the path of the sun. The sun takes on different shapes (habits) depending on season (house). At the end of the year he is an old man, at the beginning he is a little child. Sun comes again after having died at the limit of the old year. In the agricultural year it means at spring equinox (or shortly before). His downfall is necessary for regeneration. The last quarter must end in a downfall. The sacred year which is vertically oriented (governed by the moon instead of the sun) has the last quarter defined by winter solstice, which explains why December 13 is the date which determines Lucia in Sweden (high in latitude and with a female sun). The week is defined by the moon and the sacred year is the larger puzzle into which the week must fit. Therefore Sun comes first in the week (because the rebirth of the sun occurs at the beginning of the sacred year). Mars has his character defined as a light-bringer and it means he must come immediately after the pair sun and moon. I must try to keep this grand old story as short as possible, but I must also try to be convincing, because it is true and because it is necessary in translating rongorongo texts. I looked once again in Hamlet's Mill, and found another Brutus (Hamlet himself). We need him too: "... While Tarquin was thus employed (on certain defensive measures), a dreadful prodigy appeared to him, a snake sliding out of a wooden pillar, terrified the beholders, and made them fly into the palace; and not only struck the king himself with sudden terror, but filled his breast with anxious apprehensions: so that, whereas in the case of public prodigies the Etrurian soothsayers only were applied to, being thoroughly frightened at this domestic aparition, as it were, he resolved to send to Delphi, the most celebrated oracle in the world; and judging it unsafe to entrust the answers of the oracle to any other person, he sent his two sons into Greece, through lands unknown at that time, and seas still more unknown. Titus and Aruns set out, and, as a companion, there was sent with them Junius Brutus, son to Tarquinia, the king's sister, a young man of a capacity widely different from the assumed appearance he had put on. Having heard that the principal men in the state, and among the rest his brother, had been put to death by his uncle, he resolved that the king should find nothing in his capacity which he need dread, nor in his fortune which he need covet; and he determined to find security in contempt since in justice there was no protection. He took care, therefore, to fashion his behaviour to the resemblance of foolishness, and submitted himself and his portion to the king's rapacity. Nor did he show any dislike of the surname Brutus, content that, under the cover of that appellation, the genius wich was to be the deliverer of the Roman people should lie concealed, and wait the proper season for exertion ... He was, at this time, carried to Delphi by the Tarquinii, rather as a subject of sport than as a companion; and is said to have brought, as an offering to Apollo, a golden wand inclosed in a staff of cornel wood, hollowed for the purpose, an emblem figurative of the state of his own capacity. When they were there, and had executed their father's commission, the young men felt a wish to enquire to which of them the kingdom of Rome was to come; and we are told that these words were uttered from the bottom of the cave - 'Young men, whichever of you shall first kiss your mother, he shall possess the sovereign power at Rome' ... Brutus judged that the expression of Apollo had another meaning, and as if he had accidentally stumbled and fallen, he touched the earth with his lips, considering that she was the common mother of all mankind." The piece is cited from Livy, and puts Hatinga Te Kohe into a new perspective. Out from the staff (wooden pillar) comes a golden snake crawling, forewarning of the golden wand inside the hollow 'bamboo'. Kissing the earth means the morning star is reaching the horizon and forewarning of the soon rising sun. North of the equator it should be Aldebaran, south of the equator Antares ('the other side Mars'). Though the act of bowing down to kiss the horizon refers to the west and an evening star, more symbolic of the death waiting for the current king. We understand why Hamlet asked himself if it was better to die than to live forever, holding the dead skull. He had the capacity to make a choice, to either remain as an eternal and predictable god high up in the sky or to bring his power into action (movement, life, light). Mars is making strange and sometimes retrograde motions in the sky, indicating a living entity. He is only half god. |
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