Monday, August 09, 2004
I guess I have to give a lesson on the meaning of pua...meanng blossom or flower, child...
A pua 'ako 'ia, is a "flower (alread) plucked", meaning, as in the song Papalina Lahilahi, dainty, smooth, or delicate cheeks (the lina is the side of the face, and papa means a flat place, a level, the cheek plus the side of the forehead), but "cheek" in English means something else, right...so the pun is intended when one translates papalina as "cheek", that only a bilingual speaker could reference both languages at once (in the song Papalina Lahilahi)...
A pua 'ohi, is a flower picked or gathered, found below the tree from which it has fallen, and is gathered usually with the other flowers found fallen from the tree...which is okay in one sense because one doesn't waste flowers strung into a lei...
It means a flower past its prime...but not faded (pua mae)...has enough left of its life to still have enough to be either useful or beautiful...
So, what then is a flower that is in full bloom, or in its prime, ready to be taken from the branch, that is pua mohala....a blossom that has not been taken from the tree (yet)...
So in songs in which the beauty of the loved one has bloomed and not yet faded, the Hawaiians will call that child a never-fading flower:
i.e., pua mae 'ole...
So, let's see what I get back from the "boys", this time...interesting.
Pua po'ohina (flower of wisdom).. aloha no.
A pua 'ako 'ia, is a "flower (alread) plucked", meaning, as in the song Papalina Lahilahi, dainty, smooth, or delicate cheeks (the lina is the side of the face, and papa means a flat place, a level, the cheek plus the side of the forehead), but "cheek" in English means something else, right...so the pun is intended when one translates papalina as "cheek", that only a bilingual speaker could reference both languages at once (in the song Papalina Lahilahi)...
A pua 'ohi, is a flower picked or gathered, found below the tree from which it has fallen, and is gathered usually with the other flowers found fallen from the tree...which is okay in one sense because one doesn't waste flowers strung into a lei...
It means a flower past its prime...but not faded (pua mae)...has enough left of its life to still have enough to be either useful or beautiful...
So, what then is a flower that is in full bloom, or in its prime, ready to be taken from the branch, that is pua mohala....a blossom that has not been taken from the tree (yet)...
So in songs in which the beauty of the loved one has bloomed and not yet faded, the Hawaiians will call that child a never-fading flower:
i.e., pua mae 'ole...
So, let's see what I get back from the "boys", this time...interesting.
Pua po'ohina (flower of wisdom).. aloha no.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
If you have the Kumulipo I published a while ago or have reviewed my "Timing The Generations" (still unpublished but it has circulated to a number of archaeoastronomers and mathematicians in Hawai'i and overseas), take a look at this work and you'll understand how regnal genealogies are clocked, and how pyramidal structures encode the geometrics.
You can also use it to check my numbers and the rationale used to time the generations to the precession of the equinoxes, and other cycles.
http://www.earthmatrix.com/serie56/maya56.htm
You can also use it to check my numbers and the rationale used to time the generations to the precession of the equinoxes, and other cycles.
http://www.earthmatrix.com/serie56/maya56.htm
Monday, August 02, 2004
Dear Hana:
Condemnation, censure, negative opinion, judgment, is relative to perspective from, to, and so forth...as you spin a kaleidoscope, so is one's life, seen from a million mirrors, but if you look in the mirror all of the time, all you get is Harweda...remember him?
He lived in a palace and the walls in a certain room, the most elegant one, were hung with mirrors in which he could look at himself.
So he spent most of his time in this room. At first the windows were of the same size as the mirrors, full length and big enough to hold a complete image of himself in the mirrors and to see the outside world, as the light poured in.
So he loved to go there to look at himself in those big mirrors and as he got bigger, so did the mirrors, as they began to claim the space occupied by the windows...
He didn't notice that the longer he looked and fell in love with his handsome image in the mirrors, the windows grew narrower and shorter, until less and less light came into the room, and more and more of the outside world grew also smaller and smaller.
His portrait grew in each splended mirror, the sides covered with gold, until one day he noticed he could hardly get a good view, and as there were no chandeliers or candelabra there, eventually, the room grew to be as dark as night and he could hardly view himself or his wonder image of who he was.
So he complained to one of the maids and to his parents, and as they threw open the doors, they, too, could hardly see anything.
I think you remember the moral to this story, and why its ancient origins come from Scandinavia.
Remember how grandma used to tell you not to keep looking at yourself in the mirror, or was it Dane or Moani? That you'd become another Harweda?
So to reverse the situation, Harweda had to try to look out through slits in the walls so he could see outside, so that the windows went back to normal and so did his image of himself.
By the way, did you see that story of Susan Aiu in today's paper, about how management associations can foreclose on your apartment, even when the mortgage is paid up, in other words both of these are considered equal "debtees", since you are "debtor" in both instances...
So, she lost her $70,000 equity in her apartment in (I think) Pearl Ridge?
Anyway, on that side.
So if you miss a month on the maintenance, that constitutes "default", and if you miss the next months, for 60 days, I guess, you get "foreclosure" on the maintenance agreement.
So if you're always behind your payments by one month, and then you pay that month, when you do pay it, the next month, you are always in "default" until you pay up the two months due on time...
Now that's the situation I'm facing with Dane's apartment because of the way they wrote the contracts and the dates due by making certain payments up front and then due...so that I found myself always "behind"
by one month and now I have to pay up by two up front, or that apartment will always be in "default", even when I've paid the bank the mortgage in full...
Nasty, isn't it? But that's why the world is the way it is...people are fools to put up all their "equity" like $70,000 on what ? A half-million dollar house, or a quarter-million "apartment (whether "leasehold" or "fee")....and are unable to muster the payments of impossible amounts PLUS taxes....
Okay...they wind up homeless even when they've been taken for the $70,000 which the bank doesn't have to return...in other words...
If this were ancient Hawai'i, you think the bank manager would be alive the next minute, after he had confiscated the value of $70,000 from warriors?
No way. In those days, vengeance was a moral thing is wrongdoing had been done. There are many dead chiefs that the commoners put to death when it was convenient to disobey, as when the chief was under the canoe log coming downhill, and the carriers let go.
Then they went home to Ka'u. This is why Ka'u is regarded as the place where bad chiefs do not continue to live forever.
Love, mommy
Condemnation, censure, negative opinion, judgment, is relative to perspective from, to, and so forth...as you spin a kaleidoscope, so is one's life, seen from a million mirrors, but if you look in the mirror all of the time, all you get is Harweda...remember him?
He lived in a palace and the walls in a certain room, the most elegant one, were hung with mirrors in which he could look at himself.
So he spent most of his time in this room. At first the windows were of the same size as the mirrors, full length and big enough to hold a complete image of himself in the mirrors and to see the outside world, as the light poured in.
So he loved to go there to look at himself in those big mirrors and as he got bigger, so did the mirrors, as they began to claim the space occupied by the windows...
He didn't notice that the longer he looked and fell in love with his handsome image in the mirrors, the windows grew narrower and shorter, until less and less light came into the room, and more and more of the outside world grew also smaller and smaller.
His portrait grew in each splended mirror, the sides covered with gold, until one day he noticed he could hardly get a good view, and as there were no chandeliers or candelabra there, eventually, the room grew to be as dark as night and he could hardly view himself or his wonder image of who he was.
So he complained to one of the maids and to his parents, and as they threw open the doors, they, too, could hardly see anything.
I think you remember the moral to this story, and why its ancient origins come from Scandinavia.
Remember how grandma used to tell you not to keep looking at yourself in the mirror, or was it Dane or Moani? That you'd become another Harweda?
So to reverse the situation, Harweda had to try to look out through slits in the walls so he could see outside, so that the windows went back to normal and so did his image of himself.
By the way, did you see that story of Susan Aiu in today's paper, about how management associations can foreclose on your apartment, even when the mortgage is paid up, in other words both of these are considered equal "debtees", since you are "debtor" in both instances...
So, she lost her $70,000 equity in her apartment in (I think) Pearl Ridge?
Anyway, on that side.
So if you miss a month on the maintenance, that constitutes "default", and if you miss the next months, for 60 days, I guess, you get "foreclosure" on the maintenance agreement.
So if you're always behind your payments by one month, and then you pay that month, when you do pay it, the next month, you are always in "default" until you pay up the two months due on time...
Now that's the situation I'm facing with Dane's apartment because of the way they wrote the contracts and the dates due by making certain payments up front and then due...so that I found myself always "behind"
by one month and now I have to pay up by two up front, or that apartment will always be in "default", even when I've paid the bank the mortgage in full...
Nasty, isn't it? But that's why the world is the way it is...people are fools to put up all their "equity" like $70,000 on what ? A half-million dollar house, or a quarter-million "apartment (whether "leasehold" or "fee")....and are unable to muster the payments of impossible amounts PLUS taxes....
Okay...they wind up homeless even when they've been taken for the $70,000 which the bank doesn't have to return...in other words...
If this were ancient Hawai'i, you think the bank manager would be alive the next minute, after he had confiscated the value of $70,000 from warriors?
No way. In those days, vengeance was a moral thing is wrongdoing had been done. There are many dead chiefs that the commoners put to death when it was convenient to disobey, as when the chief was under the canoe log coming downhill, and the carriers let go.
Then they went home to Ka'u. This is why Ka'u is regarded as the place where bad chiefs do not continue to live forever.
Love, mommy
