TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

One cannot but wonder. What made Churchill use such words?

... Stair's derivation from pa'a-lolo, luscious crab, is out of all consideration; it is on all fours with the classic definition of a crab as a small red fish that walks backward, for pa'a (paka) could not in the Samoan system of word structure undergo such a syncopation as to cut itself in two ...

In a structure borrowed from the lunar tidal system the year must be cut in two at the solstices. And the red sun must walk backward after summer solstice. Before that he has 4 supporting limbs raised in his advent (coming forward and arriving).


Aa1-1	Aa1-2	Aa1-3	Aa1-4	Aa1-5	Aa1-6	Aa1-7	Aa1-8

Aa1-9	Aa1-10	Aa1-11	Aa1-12	Aa1-13	Aa1-14	Aa1-15	Aa1-16

Aa1-17	Aa1-18	Aa1-19	Aa1-20	Aa1-21	Aa1-22	Aa1-23	Aa1-24

Aa1-25	Aa1-26	Aa1-27	Aa1-28	Aa1-29	Aa1-30	Aa1-31	Aa1-32
				In Aa1-10 a little canoe is leaving (no longer in touch with the elbow) and in Aa1-20 the canoe is turned upside down. Reí in Aa1-18 is at the halfway station on the solar journey covering 36 * 10 days.
Aa1-33	Aa1-34	Aa1-35	Aa1-36

At Ko Koró a new house has been built (therefore the 4 supporting beams), while at winter solstice there are only 3 spiritual beams (and 'berries'):


Pa5-67	Pa5-68	Pa5-69	Pa5-70	Pa5-71	Pa5-72
		-
Aa1-13	Aa1-14			Aa1-15
kua tuu	marai			i tona ohoga - ki te ariki

The fingers in the spaghetti dish were feeling the strange shift in consistence from hard lean straight 'beams' into thicker wormlike slippery 'vermicelli', fa'alolo. At 'noon' sun is at his hottest and the cooking takes place.

When I a moment ago was searching for the spelling of Ko Koró I found another relevant item:

... Maui left her, and this nail also he put out when he had gone a little distance. He wetted his hand, to show Mahuika he had fallen into a stream. Then she gave him the nail of mapere, her middle finger, and he did the same again, and Mahuika believed him each time. In this way she gave him the nail of koroa, her forefinger, and then of koro matua, her thumb. And each one of them Maui put out, and returned for more. He wanted to see what would happen if he took from Mahuika the last of her fire, and he now had not a thought for the fire they needed in the village ...

The thumb, koro matua, makes me think about the night arriving after Tapume:

6th period			see right
	Ca8-4	Ca8-5		Ca8-6	Ca8-7	Ca8-8	Ca8-9	Ca8-10
	glyph numbers in the calendar:					*Tapume*	*Matua*	*Orongo*
	47	48	-	49	50	51	52	53

Coincidently, too, the night before Tapume is Kokore rima (with rima meaning 5 = hand). In Ca8-10 (Orongo) there is a 5-feather maro at left - possibly meaning that the fire has been wetted by the stream. The ordinal number 10 also suggests that sun is 'finished'. Beyond 52 * 7 days a dark night follows.