Tarocchi----------------------------------Maori nights of the moon--------hsiu

10. Wheel of Fortune (spinning-wheel ?)

1.Whiro "to twist threads"

6. "robing"

 

2. Takataka-putea: putea "basket for clothes"

7. Basket

 

3.

8.

 

4. ouenuku "rainbow" [cf. rainbow bridge: Hawaiian Mythology, p. 573]

9. "bridges"

12. Hanged man (suspended by noose)

5. Koro "noose"; Kou "clitoris"

10. hsu: "concubine"

13. horse-rider

7. ... whanana "party of travellers"; anana "cave"

11. Emptiness

14. Temperance

8. ... aio "peace"

 

15. Devil (who carried Jesus onto temple's roof -- Luke 4:9)

 

12. Rooftop

16. Tower

9. Pa "fort, stockade"

13. Encampment

17. Star

10. Hune "tiny"; Huna "secret"

14. "the secret library"

18. Moon with pond

12. Mawharu "bog, quagmire"

15. "canals and waterways"

19. Sun with sun-flowers

13. Hua "to bloom, as a flower"

 

20. Day of Judgement, with corpses rising up

14. Atua-whakahaehae "supernatural terrifying"

 

21. World: woman within wreath

16. +Maurea "sedge used in making ornamental belts"

 

0. Fool {the court-fool, Taliesin, was found in an eel-weir}

17. Turu "to build an eel-weir"

19. Net

 

18. Rakau "tree, medicine"

20. "edible wild plants"

1. Juggler

19. kind of dance performed by men only

 

2. High Priestess "the virgin and sterile" (The Black Arts, p. 113)

23. Korekore "infantile, sterile"

 

4. Emperor

25-27. Tanga-roa

 

5. Pope

28. Tane

 

6.

29. Rono-nui

 

7. Chariot

30. Rono-mauri [cf. Rono-i-amo: amo "litter, bier"]: mauri "heart"

5. Heart

8. Justice with sword

31. Mutu "to cut short, cut off"

 

E'COLE PRATIQUE DES HAUTES E'TUDES, Sixie`me Section -- SCIENCES E'CONOMIQUES ET SOCIALES. LE MONDE D'OUTRE-MER PASSE' ET PRE'SENT, Deuxie`me Se'rie, Documents IX. Ho Peng Yoke: The Astronomical Chapters of the Chin Shu. Paris: Mouton & Co., MCMLXVI. pp. 94 to 105

THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY, Vol 37 (1928). New Plymouth, N.Z. pp. 338 to 356 H. W. Williams: "The Nights of the Moon."

Edward Tregear: The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary.

Herbert W. Williams: A Dictionary of the Maori language.

Martha Beckwith: Hawaiian Mythology. Yale U. Pr, 1940.