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TRANSLATIONS
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A map shows Tepeu
located on the western coast (close to the end of the kuhane
journey):
Tuu Ko Ihu
buried the head of the sun (god), i.e. he did exactly
the opposite of hanging the skull high in his house. If we accept a
view of the sacred geography where midsummer 'is equal to'
Poike in the east, then a hole (meaning the lowest point)
ought to be found in the west.
Tepeu
surely is
Te Peu
and among the meanings of this word we find 'persons stooping
with age', 'housebeams sagging under weight':
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Peu
1. Axe, adze,
mattock; peu pakoa,
an axe poorly helved. 2. Energy.
Peupeu:
1. To groan. 2. To be affectionate, to grow tender;
peupeuhaga,
friendship. Mq.: pèèhu,
haápeéhu,
pekehu,
to make tender. 3. Pau.:
peu,
habit, custom, manners. Ta.:
peu,
custom, habit, usage. 4. Pau.:
hakapeu,
to strut. Ta.: haapeu,
id. Churchill.
Sa.:
mapelu,
to bend, to stoop, to bow down, persons stooping
with age, housebeams sagging under weight. To.:
pelu,
bebelu,
to fold, to crease. Fu.:
pelu,
peluki,
to fold. Uvea: pelu,
id., mapelu,
to bend, to bow. Ha.: pelu,
to double over, to bend, to fold. Rapanui:
peu,
axe, adze. Churchill 2. |
When sun
stands low in the sky his best time (midsummer) is past.
Another
meaning in peu is 'to fold, to crease' - and our thoughts
ought to go to the head of a ua club, where the
compressed face causes wrinkles at the top. Instead of the long
nose in the ao paddle (stretching the face so wrinkles
disappear) the short nose is not enough to keep the sky vault
high. Ihu means nose, and the creator of the story has
given us a sign in the name of Tuu Ko Ihu ('the nose is
standing').
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1. Nose; ihu more, snub nose,
snub-nosed person. 2. Ihuihu cape, reef;
ihuihu - many reefs, dangerous for boats. 3.
Ihu moko, to die out (a family of which remains
only one male without sons); koro hakamao te mate
o te mahigo, he-toe e-tahi tagata nó, ina aana
hakaara, koîa te me'e e-kî-nei: ku-moko-á te ihu o
te mahigo, when the members of family have died
and there remains only one man who has no offspring,
we say: ku-moko-á te ihu o te mahigo. To
disappear (of a tradition, a custom), me'e ihu
moko o te tagata o te kaiga nei, he êi, the
êi is a custom no longer in use among the people
of this island. 4. Eldest child; first-born; term
used alone or in conjunction with atariki.
Vanaga.
1. Nose, snout, cape T (iju
G). Po ihuihu, prow of a canoe. P Pau.:
ihu, nose. Mgv.: ihu, nose; mataihu,
cape, promontory. Mq., Ta.: ihu, nose, beak,
bowsprit. Ihupagaha, ihupiro, to rap
on the nose, to snuffle. 2. Mgv.: One who dives
deep. Ta.: ihu, to dive. Churchill.
Sa.: isu, nose, snout,
bill. Fu., Fakaafo, Aniwa, Manahiki: isu, the
nose. Nuguria; kaisu, id. Fotuna: eisu,
id. Moiki: ishu, id. To., Niuē,
Uvea, Ma., Ta., Ha., Mq., Mgv., Pau., Rapanui,
Tongareva, Nukuoro: ihu,
id. Rarotonga: putaiu,
id. Vaté: tus,
id. Viti: uthu,
nose. Rotumā: isu,
id. ... usu
and ngusu
... serve as transition forms, usu
pointing to
isu the nose in
Polynesia and ngusu
to ngutu
the mouth, which is very near, nearer yet when we
bear in mind that ngutu
the mouth is snout as well and that isu
the nose is snout too ...
Churchill 2. |
The meaning
'axe' etc probably is because the old 'tree' should be felled.
'They lifted the king off to the side and let him fall.' The
proper season for this event should be 'fall'. |
Before we follow the hyperlink 'the structure of the calendar'
we need to think again.
Possibly we should count from *Kb2-15 and
find Kb3-5 as number 9:
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*52 glyphs |
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Ka4-15 |
*Kb2-15 |
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summer? |
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8 glyphs |
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12 glyphs |
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*Kb2-16 |
Kb3-7 |
Kb3-8 |
Kb4-5 |
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2 |
11 |
12 |
25 |
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'humpback season' |
4th quarter? |
Assuming summer to be 52
glyphs, it is natural to count from *Kb2-15.
We have learnt that henua glyphs not
necessarily must come at the end, they can
equally well come at the beginning.
25 at Kb4-5 is not in harmony
with 26 * 2 for summer. We can reach 26 by
'borrowing' a glyph from summer or we can
add a glyph beyond Kb4-5:
We can then reorganize our
old table to get *100 at Kb4-7:
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2nd calendar: |
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1 |
Ka3-15 |
1 |
*73 |
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1-6 |
Ka3-16--Ka4-14 |
spring |
20 |
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6-16 |
Ka4-15--Kb1-10 |
summer |
26 |
*52 |
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16-20 |
Kb1-11--*Kb2-14 |
*26 |
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20-23 |
*Kb2-15--Kb3-8 |
humpback |
12 |
26 |
27 |
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24-28 |
Kb3-9--Kb4-6 |
rest of autumn |
14 |
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28 |
Kb4-7 |
winter solstice |
1 |
The 2nd Rei (Ka3-15)
now initiates the 2nd calendar, earlier we
had counted with the two preceding 'fire
generators' as the start of the 2nd
calendar. Loosing them at the beginning is
compensated by adding Kb4-6--7 at the end. Ka3-15 is needed in order to
change 72 (= 360 / 5) into a more realistic
73 (= 365 / 5). Therefore, spring + the
first half of summer measure 1 + 20 + 26 =
47 glyphs (instead of 46 glyphs).
Already from the very
beginning of this work I concluded
Kb4-8 indicated the 5 days beyond 360. If we
do not count Ka3-15 (to reach 365), then we
have to count Kb4-8 (which says we should
add 5 dark nights). Ordinal number 28 (moon
still enlightened by the sun) should not
mislead us - counted from the beginning of
the 2nd half year the ordinal number is 28 +
26 = 54 = 6 * 9 (sun and death).
The 1st half year will have
20 + 26 = 46 glyphs and the 2nd will have 26
+ 12 + 14 = 52 glyphs, or 6 more than the
1st half year. We have during the
'Excursion' into mauga glyphs in the
E calendar arrived at 186 (i.e. 180 + 6)
glyphs as measured by the 'dark mauga'.
Presumably these 6 glyphs are:
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Kb4-1 |
Kb4-2 |
Kb4-3 |
Kb4-4 |
Kb4-5 |
Kb4-6 |
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21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
Why should there be 6 extra glyphs at
the end of the 2nd half year? 360 - 6 =
354 = 6 * 59. Counting moon nights in
double months there cannot be more than
6 such 59-night periods in a year:
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2nd calendar: |
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1 |
Ka3-15 |
1 |
*73 |
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1-6 |
Ka3-16--Ka4-14 |
spring |
20 |
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6-16 |
Ka4-15--Kb1-10 |
summer |
26 |
*52 |
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16-20 |
Kb1-11--*Kb2-14 |
*26 |
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20-23 |
*Kb2-15--Kb3-8 |
humpback |
12 |
20 |
27 |
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24-27 |
Kb3-9--Kb3-16 |
rest of moon year |
8 |
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27-28 |
Kb4-1--Kb4-6 |
moon year finished |
6 |
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28 |
Kb4-7 |
winter solstice |
1 |
Where is the ua
glyph (Kb3-5) in this table? It
still is number 9 in the humpback
period. Counted from Kb1-11 (the
beginning of the 2nd half year) it
will be number 26 + 9 = 35, or
equal to 420 / 12 (the cycle of
moon-sun divided into 'months').
Counted from Ka3-16
(the beginning of the regular
360-day solar year) ua will
be number 35 + 46 = 91, a number
equal to a quarter of a 364-night
year.
There are 12 glyphs (including ua)
to the end of the 354-night moon
year.
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Kb3-5 |
Kb3-6 |
Kb3-7 |
Kb3-8 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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Kb3-9 |
Kb3-10 |
Kb3-11 |
Kb3-12 |
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5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
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Kb3-13 |
Kb3-14 |
Kb3-15 |
Kb3-16 |
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9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
If we divide 354
by 12 we get 29.5, the number of
nights in a moon month.
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