Huai-nan-tzu, 11

Maori nights of moon

meanings, in Hawai’ian

4. thieves

1. Whiro, god of thieves

5. lees-mound

2. Tirea

"conspicuous hill"

7. mirror

3. Hoata [cf. /ata/ "reflection"]

10. sand dunes [n. 88]

4. One "sand"

15. bell

5. Kou

"drum-sound"

15. blood on mouth

6. Kai-Ariki "eater of chiefs"

15. men and women

8. Aio

swipe shins and rub shoulders

[cf. /ai/ "coition"]

17. bared and naked ones

10. Huna "secret,

nakedness"

18. posturings in ritual

11. Ari

"gestures, in ritual"

18. pearls

12. Mawharu

"bloom"

20. makes a belt

13. Maurea "sedge for belts"

14. Atua Whaka-Haehae

22. battle-axe

[cf. "axe of Hae-ora"]

24. make fish-weirs

15. Turu "to build an eel-weir;

31. wooden hawk which flew

to fly a kite"

34. dug-out log

16, 17. Rakau "tree, wood"

18. Takirau [cf. /takitakio/

35. cicada

"stridulation of cicada"]

38. peddle fish

19. Ika "fish"

Bibliography:--

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SERIES, Vol. 48. Benjamin E. Wallaker: The Huai-nan-tzu, Book Eleven. New Haven (CT), 1962.