New Zealand

Sandwich Islands

Yucatan

nights of moon

meanings

13 20-year periods

1. Whiro

hilo "a running sore"

-uac "a blister, a boil"

2. Tireo

kileo "palate"

Na- "palate"

3. Hoata

hoaka "become daylight"

Kin "day"

5. Kou

'oua "unripe"

-aa "unripe"

6. Nana

nana "to observe"

Can "to learn"

7. Kani "back and forth"

Pac- "to fold"

9. Pa

pa "to taste"

Cab- "honey"

10. Huna "in-law";

Na- "mother"

Hune

huna, hune

-pot Xiu, cf. puut-xiiw

"branching seaweed"

"cruciferous herb"

11. Ari "display"

Zoon "scowling"

12. Mawharu

mohalu "slack"

Cum "to overfill"

13. Hua "buttocks;

Tu "stench"

egg"

15. Hotu

-hoku "fruit"

Cuc^ "sticky"

16. Maurea "sedge for

Cit- "leaves for food"

belts"

C^umayel =

maulele "flotsam"

cuumuk "middle" +

aayil "alligator"

THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY,

CARNEGIE INST. OF WASHINGTON,

Vol. 37, 1928. pp. 338-356.

Publ. No. 219. 1920.

H. W. Williams:

Mary Kawena Pukui & Samuel H. Elbert:

S. G. Morley:

"The Nights of the Moon."

Hawaiian Dictionary. U. of Hawaii Press, 1971.

The Inscriptions at Copan.

## 29, 31, etc.

p. 482

the god of # 13 arising out of one end of carapace

(divine) toad arising out of other end of same carapace

13 Ahau-signs rimming carapace of stone tortoise at Mayapan (ibid., p. 186)

toad as earth-diver provided soil upon shell of world-tortoise (PM, p. 246)

[Ibo] tortoise atop tree = tortoise atop post in Codex Madrid, p. 19 (PMKWh, pp. 193, 194)

[Huron] world-tortoise

TWI (people in Africa)

[Huron] god TaWIskarong (PM, pp. 247-248)

"peafowl" is [in >ib.] TUKKi^ (whence the [Fijian] maTUKU), though [Cupen~o, PM, p. 242] god TUKUt was prae-uttered by god ISIl (= [Borneo] god ISI)

[Huron] TAWiS- = T.A>US, god of the Yazidi^ "proud (as a peafowl)"

As Kurdish is western Iranian, northeastern Iranian is TaJiK: cf. TiJusKeha adversary to Tawiskarong; the Tajik mythic geography in its names beginning in Z- disclosing (like the sect-name ZeDi^, of Yemen) an African afinity.

yaZiDi^ are the [<arabi^-speaking] counterparts of the [Kurdish-speaking] Yarsani^