The major example of
hua in G is connected, we can see below, with hoea pau:
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Gb3-17 |
Gb3-18 |
Gb3-19 |
Gb3-20 |
Gb3-21 |
Gb3-22 |
Gb3-23 |
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Gb3-24 |
Gb3-25 |
Gb3-26 |
Gb3-27 |
Gb3-28 |
Gb3-29 |
Gb3-30 |
The location of
hua in Gb3-23 is definitely at the border line between one
'generation' and the next, because counting glyphs from Gb8-30 the
number is 314 (100π).
Counting from the
beginning of side b the number is 84. Hua in Gb3-23 is the
last day in a period of 6 fortnights. The glyphs above describe
the 12th and 13th weeks, numbers which we should associate with the
final of sun (who will reach his 'deadline' after 12 months and then
will be 'dormant' during the 13th month). There are 7 + 6 = 13
'feathers' around the hua 'fruit'.
A glyph with ordinal number -23
should be
ruled by Jupiter, and we can see from the following
Friday that it is time for regeneration. Saturn - here depicted as a hole filled with lifegiving water (vai) -
is used in order to make the process work. The result is seen at
bottom in Gb3-27 (Monday) where the 'cup' of koti is
sprouting.
Mercury is like
Saturn depicted as a hole, but the ordinal number
is without 'life' (light). In the 29th night of the moon she is not
visible. Saturn, on the other hand, has a 'square of fire' as his
number during the last week of the month, and it could be the waxing and waning
moon in the background.
In Gb3-27 a growing
maro has 5 'feathers' - a fire is in safety onboard (as if it
were a ballast, rakau o te miro) for the dark night of
the moon is approaching. It is Monday and it is Moon who will carry
light past the dark gap ahead.
In Tuesday the light
on the moon crescent is described by 9 'feathers' at her back. The
glyph has at left a reversed tapa mea formed after the
growing moon, but at right there is a growing maro string
with 6 'feathers' - in front the sun's rays will once again renew
the moon.
From this perspective
we can identify Mercury as the dark phase of the moon, when she is
between the sun and us, where a new moon will be renewed. The hole
is where she 'has bathed in the waiora a Tane', the 'fount to
restore life'. Two growing maro strings with 4 'feathers'
each indicate the 8 new periods of the moon.
With Tane as
the sun god he is capable of assuming several different 'garments',
one of which is Mercury. Now, when we have seen Tane in his
Mercury ('dark moon') garment, we can see what that meens - Mercury
is very difficult to catch sight of.
His last garment is that of Jupiter,
when sun is playing the role of the Tree, in which 'fire' is
dormant. We realize that Gb3-3 is the moon equivalent of the 'fire
generator':
moon |
sun |
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Gb3-30 |
Ka3-14 |
Ga2-26 |
In Ka3-14 we should read 314, the day of Jupiter. But it is also
a Tuesday, the 14th day in the month. Mars is the planet who
brings fire, the spring garment of the sun. We can compare with
Ca7-14 in the Mamari moon calendar.
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