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TRANSLATIONS
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Vaha mea means the 'red opening' of the year, and
mago glyphs also - normally - have their 'jaws' open. It therefore seems
reasonable to identify mago as the opposite of vaha mea, viz, the
'opening' of the 2nd half of the year.
Vahahora is spring and vahatoga is autumn:
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Vaha
Hollow; opening; space between the
fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare).
Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with
abusive words. Vanaga.
1. Space, before T; vaha takitua,
perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place.
Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha,
an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.:
vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà,
id. Niuē: vahā.
2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha,
id. Vahahora
(vaha 1 -
hora 2),
spring. Vahatoga
(vaha 1 -
toga 1),
autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha,
to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha,
to hate, to dislike.
Churchill. |
Vaha kai perhaps is the 'black' opening in
the west through which sun disappears in autumn, and
there could be a kind of 'diametrical' opposition between
vaha kai ('death') and vaha mea ('birth'):
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vaha mea |
vaha kai |
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'birth' |
'death' |
Maybe vaha mea indicates the beginning of
the 1st half of the year ('spring', vahahora), and maybe
mago similarly indicates the beginning ('birth') of the
2nd half of the year ('autumn', vahatoga):
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vaha mea |
mago |
vaha kai |
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'birth of
spring' |
'birth of
autumn' |
'death' |
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At Ab6-42 (where 6 * 42 = 252 =
300 - 48) Metoro said hora
(which often means 'summer', but here the meaning is rather 'extends' because he used it as a verb,
kua vaha, 'which opens up').
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Ancient name of summer (toga-hora, winter summer).
Vanaga.
1. In haste (horahorau). 2. Summer, April;
hora nui, March; vaha hora, spring. 3. 'Hour',
'watch'. 4. Pau.: hora, salted, briny. Ta.: horahora,
bitter. Mq.: hoáhoá, id. 5. Ta.: hora, Tephrosia
piscatoria, to poison fish therewith. Ha.: hola, to poison
fish. Churchill.
Horahora, to spread,
unfold, extend, to heave to; hohora, to come into leaf. P
Pau.: hohora, to unfold, to unroll; horahora, to
spread out, to unwrap. Mgv.: hohora, to spread out clothes as
a carpet; mahora, to stretch out (from the smallest extension
to the greatest), Mq.: hohoá, to display, to spread out, to
unroll. Ta.: hohora, to open, to display;
hora, to extend the hand
in giving it. Churchill. |
And from Ab6-42 up to and
including Ab6-48 there are 7 glyphs:
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Ab6-42 |
Ab6-43 |
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ka
hora tona
henua - kua
vaha |
kua ki |
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Ab6-44 |
Ab6-45 |
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ki tona henua
- kua vaha |
i to manu |
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Ab6-46 |
Ab6-47 |
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kua noho i te
henua - ma te
vaha |
ma te nuku rua |
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Ab6-48 |
Ab6-49 |
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i te henua -
ma te vaha |
kua
vaha |
The 4 open 'jaws' ('givers') evidently were
described as vaha ('openings', or maybe
cracks in the darkness of the he-nua
fingers?). But it is - it seeems - the 4
henua signs which give rise to the
hakaturou 'arms', because we have
earlier interpreted a similarly located sign
as 'steam' rising from the earth, which in a
later phase turns into rain:
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Ha7-32 |
Ha7-33 |
Ha7-34 |
Ha7-35 |
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Ha7-36 |
Ha7-37 |
Ha7-38 |
Ha7-39 |
At the 'hole' in Ab6-49 the 5th and last
vaha of Metoro seems to signify
the 'return opening', the opening which
leads to autumn (or in general the 2nd phase
of the cycle).
The pillars rising the sky roof up should
stand on earth, and if they are trees they
are based in earth. At left in Ab6-42 a
'nut' was planted.
Metoro said ki at Ab6-43:
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Ki. To, towards (a place, a person); after (time); for, in order
to... Vanaga.
Kî. To say, to speak; word, language; will,
wish (verbally expressed): e-hakarogo koe ki te kî o toou matu'a,
obey you father's will. Vanaga.
1. In, toward, to, for, at; ki ra, there; ki
ra hoki, exactly there; ki aho, outside; ki roto,
within, into, inside, among. 2. In order that. 3. To say, to speak, to
chat, to pronounce, to respond; argument, conversation, description,
doctrine, expression, word, relation; ki veveveve, voluble; ki
vaiapuga, nonsense, to speak much and say nothing; ki ihoiho,
to speak forcefully. Churchill. |
Maybe it means something like 'let
there be light'. Said and done.
I have classified Ab6-43 as a moa,
which is the cock of early morning, maybe thinking he is creating new light.
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