... The seventh tree is the oak, the tree of Zeus, Juppiter, Hercules, The Dagda (the chief of the elder Irish gods), Thor, and all the other Thundergods, Jehovah in so far as he was 'El', and Allah. The royalty of the oak-tree needs no enlarging upon: most people are familiar with the argument of Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, which concerns the human sacrifice of the oak-king of Nemi on Midsummer Day. The fuel of the midsummer fires is always oak, the fire of Vesta at Rome was fed with oak, and the need-fire is always kindled in an oak-log.

When Gwion writes in the Câd Goddeu, 'Stout Guardian of the door, His name in every tongue', he is saying that doors are customarily made of oak as the strongest and toughest wood and that 'Duir', the Beth-Luis-Nion name for 'Oak', means 'door' in many European languages including Old Goidelic dorus, Latin foris, Greek thura, and German tür, all derived from the Sanskrit Dwr, and that Daleth, the Hebrew letter D, means 'Door' - the 'l' being originally an 'r'.

Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

There are 348 glyphs on side b of the C tablet and 12 * 29 = 348. In essence it could mean the text was here describing the well ordered cosmos created by the Tree (Rakau).


rutua te pahu
Cb1-5	Cb1-6 (398 = 6 + 392)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
*κ VIRGINIS (214) October 21**	ARCTURUS 22 (295)
°October 17 (290)	18
*'September 24 (187)**	25 (268)
AUGUST 18 (230)	19
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*η ARIETIS (31) April 21 (111)**	*32 22
*°April 17 (27)**	18 (108 = 79 + 29)
JULIAN EQUINOX (84)	*'March 26 (5)**
FEBRUARY 16 (47)	*17 (413 = 14 29½)**

... Hercules first appears in legend as a pastoral sacred king and, perhaps because shepherds welcome the birth of twin lambs, is a twin himself. His characteristics and history can be deduced from a mass of legends, folk-customs and megalithic monuments. He is the rain-maker of his tribe and a sort of human thunder-storm. Legends connect him with Libya and the Atlas Mountains; he may well have originated thereabouts in Palaeolithic times. The priests of Egyptian Thebes, who called him Shu, dated his origin as 17,000 years before the reign of King Amasis.

He carries an oak-club, because the oak provides his beasts and his people with mast and because it attracts lightning more than any other tree. His symbols are the acorn; the rock-dove, which nests in oaks as well as in clefts of rocks; the mistletoe, or Loranthus; and the serpent. All these are sexual emblems. The dove was sacred to the Love-goddess of Greece and Syria; the serpent was the most ancient of phallic totem-beasts; the cupped acorn stood for the glans penis in both Greek and Latin; the mistletoe was an all-heal and its names viscus (Latin) and ixias (Greek) are connected with vis and ischus (strength) - probably because of the spermal viscosity of its berries, sperm being the vehicle of life.

This Hercules is male leader of all orgiastic rites and has twelve archer companions, including his spear-armed twin, who is his tanist or deputy. He performs an annual green-wood marriage with a queen of the woods, a sort of Maid Marian. He is a mighty hunter and makes rain, when it is needed, by rattling an oak-club thunderously in a hollow oak and stirring a pool with an oak branch - alternatively, by rattling pebbles inside a sacred colocinth-gourd or, later, by rolling black meteoric stones inside a wooden chest - and so attracting thunderstorms by sympathetic magic ...

Pahu

Drum. Pahu-rutu-roa = Long-beating-drum. Barthel. M. Pahū. Tree gong. Starzecka. Pahu uma, coffin; in modern usage, any sort of jar. Pahupahu = To dig a hole. Vanaga. A trough, barrel, cask, cradle, drum, chest, box; pahu nui, a kettle; pahu oka, a drawer; pahu papaku, coffin; pahu rikiriki, sheath; pahu viriviri, hogshead. Pahupahu, box. Churchill.

A trough, barrel, cask, cradle, drum, chest, box; pahu nui, a kettle; pahu oka, a drawer; pahu papaku, coffin; pahu rikiriki, sheath; pahu viriviri, hogshead; pahupahu, box. P Mgv., Ta.: pahu, a drum. Mq.: pahu, a drum, a large cylindrical container. (To.: bahu, a hollow tree set in water as a filter.) Sa.: pusa, a box. To.: buha, id. Fu.: pusa, id. Niue: puha, id. Pau.: puha, id. Pahuahi, lantern, beacon. Paukumi, closet, cupboard. Pahupopo, a mould; pahupopokai, cupboard for food. Pahure: 1. To sweep everything away. 2. To wound, to lacerate, scar, bruise, lesion, sore; pahurehure, to wound, to scratch; hakapahure, to wound. T Pau.: pahure, to be skinned; pahore, to peel off, to scale. Mgv.: pahore, to cut off, to chop, to slice. Ta.: pahore, to flay, to skin. Churchill 2.


13 Mac (260)	14 Kankin		15 Moan (300)
*BREAK (paxih)*

16 Pax (320)	17 Kayab	18 Cumhu	19 Vayeb (365)
... The [tun] glyph is nearly the same as that for the month Pax ... except that the top part of the latter is split or divided by two curving lines. Brinton, without referring to the Pax glyph, identified the tun glyph as the drum called in Yucatec pax che (pax 'musical instrument'; che < te 'wooden). Yucatec pax* means 'broken, disappeared', and Quiche paxih means, among other things, 'split, divide, break, separate'. It would seem that the dividing lines on the Pax glyph may have been used as a semantic/ phonetic determinative indicating that the drum should be read pax, not tun ... Thus, one may expect that this glyph was used elsewhere meaning 'to break' and possibly for 'medicine' (Yuc. pax, Tzel., Tzo. pox) ... It should be added that tun was also the period of 18 months, or 360 days ...
... The ground, the food-giving earth, was Pachamama; the moon, Paximama ... ... The tun glyph was identified as a wooden drum by Brinton ... and Marshal H. Saville immediately accepted it ... [the figure above] shows the Aztec drum representation relied on by Brinton to demonstrate his point. It was not then known that an ancestral Mayan word for drum was tun: Yucatec tunkul* 'divine drum' (?); Quiche tun 'hollow log drum'; Chorti tun 'hollow log drum' ...

The synodic cycle of the thunder god (Jupiter, etc) - who was also the god of lightning who brought fire - was a fraction more than 398 days:

Synodic cycles
Mercury	115.88
Venus	583.92

Mars	779.96
Jupiter	398.88
Saturn	378.09
Uranus	369.66

398 - 6 = 392 = 56 weeks = 14 * 28 days.

In the G text we have read:

EBRUARY 9 (40)	10	11	12 (408)	*13 (329)**

Gb7-22	Gb7-23	Gb7-24	Gb7-25	Gb7-26 (436)
		POLARIS	*Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku (Front of the Head of Ku)* First Point of Aries
4-14 (104)	*April 15 (25)**	16 (471 = 364 + 107)	17 (107)	*18 (393)**
°April 10 (100)	11 (466)	12	13	14 (104)
'March 18 (77)	19 (443)	*20 (364)**	0h	22

2-14	FEBRUARY 15 (46)	16

Gb7-27	Gb7-28	Gb7-29
	*Arku-sha-rishu-ku (Back of the Head of Ku)* HAMAL (α)
*April 19 (29)**	*20 (395)**	21 (111)
*°April 15 (25)**	*16 (391)**	17 (107)
'March 23	*24 (368)**	EQUINOX (84)

*FEBRUARY 17 (413 = 14 29½)**	18 (49)

Gb7-30	Gb7-31
April 22 (477)	23 (113)
°April 18 (473)	*19 (29)**
'March 26 (450)	*27 (371)**

FEBRUARY 19	*20 (336)**	21	22 (53)	TERMINALIA

Gb8-1	Gb8-2	Gb8-3 (444)	Gb8-4	Gb8-5
*April 24 (399)**	25	*6 (36)**	27	28 (118 = 54 + 64)
°April 20	21 (111)	*22 (32)**	23	*24 (399 = 339 + 60)*
*'March 28 (372)**	29	30	31	'April 1 (91)

At Gb7-30 Arcturus was close to the Full Moon, and 7 * 30 = 210 = 398 - 188 (= 183 + 5). The silent bird in Cb1-11 could have corresponded to the last day of Moan, the Mayan 20-day month before the first day of Pax:

*FEBRUARY 17 (413 = 14 29½)**	182	*AUGUST 19 (151)**

Gb7-30		Cb1-6 (398)
32 + 366 = 398 April 22 (477 = 112 + 365)		*ARCTURUS (215) October 22 (295)**
ARCTURUS (295) *October 22 (215 = 32 + 183)*		32 April 22 (112 = 295 - 183)*
AUGUST 19 (231 = 48 + 183)		FEBRUARY 17 (48 = 413 - 365)


Cb1-7	Cb1-8	Cb1-9	Cb1-10	Cb1-11 (398 + 5)	Cb1-12
rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua hiko ura - hiko o tea - ka higa te ao ko te henua ra ma te hoi atua					manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
*(95 + 121) October 23**	*217 24	*218 25	*219 26	220 (300 = 295 + 5)*	*221 28
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*MIRA (216 - 183) April 23**	*34 24	35 25 (115)*	*36 26	*37 27	38 28 (118 = 4 29½)**
FEBR 18 (414)	19	20	21	22	TERMINALIA

A pair of figures with mata heads were here (in Gb7-30) depicted as separated by 3 kinds of limbs. In front there is a special kind of leg, in the center there is a human arm, and at left there seems to be a less substantial such arm.

At far right a little offspring appears, perhaps broken off from the previous leg, or perhaps where earlier there had been a 4th severed and now absent (sacrificed) member.

... After they had departed from Pu Pakakina they reached Vai Marama and met a man. Ira asked, 'How many are you?' He answered, 'There were two of us'. Ira continued asking, 'Where is he (the other)?' To that he answered, 'The one died'. Again Ira asked, 'Who has died?' He replied, 'That was Te Ohiro A Te Runu'. Ira asked anew, 'And who are you?' He answered, 'Nga Tavake A Te Rona' ...

The name of this survivor seems to allude to Hua Tava, to the father of Kuukuu.

Preposed plural marker of rare usage. 1. Sometimes used with a few nouns denoting human beings, more often omitted. Te ga vî'e, te ga poki, the women and the children. Ga rauhiva twins. 2. Used with some proper names. Ga Vaka, Alpha and Beta Centauri (lit. Canoes). Vanaga.

Tava

Tavatava, pale. Tavake, sea bird, white, with rosy tail; its feathers were used to decorate hats and belts. Vanaga. Mgv.: A shellfish. To.: tava-amanu, id. Tavake, a seabird with a long red tail. Mq.: toavake, toae, the tropic bird. Sa.: tava'e, id. Ta.: Tavare, to trick, to dupe. Mq.: tavae, to cajole, to flatter. Ma.: taware, to dupe, to fool.. Mq.: Tavatava, a fish. Sa.: tavatava, id. Ha.: kawakawa, id. Churchill.

Tavari, the plant Polygonum acuminatum grows on the crater lakes in close association with rushes and seems to have been used for medicinal purposes. Barthel 2.

Rona

Figure made of wood, or stone, or painted, representing a bird, a birdman, a lizard, etc. Vanaga. Drawing, traction. Pau.: ronarona, to pull one another about. Churchill. While the rongorongo signs (rona) are generally 'carved out, incised' (motu), ta implies an incision ('cutting, beating') as well as the process of applying signs to the surface with the aid of a dye ... RAP. rona means primarily 'sign' (an individual sign in the Rongorongo script or a painted or carved sign made on a firm background, such as a petroglyph), but also 'sculpture' (made from wood or stone, representing animals of hybrid creatures) ... rona (lona) implies the idea of 'maintaining a straight line' with ropes and nets and also the maintaining of a steady course (in MAO. and TUA.).

Te Rona is the name of a star in TUA., which Makemson (1941:251) derives from the mythical figure of 'Rona', who is connected with the moon and is considered to be the father of (the moon goddess) Hina (for this role in MAO., see Tregear 1891:423). From west Polynesia come totally different meanings. Interesting perhaps is FIJ. lona, 'to wonder what one is to eat, fasting for the dead.' ... Barthel 2

Sons of Hau Maka		Sons of Hua Tava
*Ira*	Sun	*Kuukuu*	Mars	Nga Tavake A Te Rona
*Raparenga*	Moon	*Ringiringi*	Mercury	Te Ohiro A Te Runu
		*Nonoma*	Jupiter
		*Uure*	Venus
		*Makoi*	Saturn

Runu

To take, to grab with the hand; to receive, to welcome someone in one's home. Ko Timoteo Pakarati ku-runu-rivariva-á ki a au i toona hare, Timoteo Pakarati received me well in his house. Runurunu, iterative of runu: to take continuously, to collect. Vanaga. 1. To pluck, to pick, a burden. 2. A substitute; runurunu, a representative. Churchill.