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The Hawaiian and Greek lunar week

Posted on January 31, 2011by Rubellite Kawena Kinney Johnson

Rubellite Kawena Johnson

I just thought I would send you this email sample from the website Bibliotheca Arcana, because one of the interesting parallels between the Hawaiian lunar month and the Greek lunar month is the division of the month into three "weeks" of 10 days (anahulu, Hawaiian ten-day week) cp. Greek ten-day week = decad, i.e., the decan week of which there are 3 decan weeks per month in both calculations. So, I thought I would send this now because in Kumulipo Hymn (1981 RK JOhnson, Topgallant etc.), the discussion section of the text talks about tetraktys etc. in explaining the Hawaiian count for the month as 1/3 = 1 week of 10 days, etc. This is why I believe it a good thing to blog the 1981 original Kumulipo text with the illustrations intact and the translations to at least 2 of the 16 wa, thereafter, I can go ahead and also submit in the blog the present text of "Hawaiian Understanding of the Universe" because it continues from that time, i.e., reviewing what was not illustrated but then translated as the 3rd to 16 th wa, emphasizing the interpretation of "timing the generations". I will be sending this cc: to Dr. Joseph Ciotti who should know I will go ahead with this "blog" now, which will allow me the opportunity to cover that ground ahead of "explaining" the numerical relationship which should be forthcoming by comparing the Greek epact with the Hawaiian epake (Kaulili and Kalokuokamaile), where we are not sure to what extent the Biblical translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts into the Hawaiian Bible introduced the epact into the lunar counts, however, if whatever happened as a result of "contact" after the arrival of James Cook in 1778 and the subsequent introduction of the Bible and number studies at Lahainaluna and in the Honolulu mission, that factor will be examined, if it had anything to do with the Hale Naua and Kalakaua when Solomon Kaulili was working in Iolani Palace, or if it was more likely his preparation in the Mormon faith before his conversion to the Congregational ministry that began at the Bethel in Honolulu Harbor that later became Central Union in downtown Honolulu before that moved to its present location near Punahou. I assure you this is no easy thing to do, but it has an interesting comparative (etymology + ethnoastronomy) aspect which suggests a cultural transition (not necessarily from the Meditteranean but from 3000 or so B.C. in Sumeria and adjacent areas in the normal movements of human canoes and boats between the Indian Ocean around the Cape of Good Hope, inasmuch as Indonesian craft and people did move between those islands and Madagascar so that the coconut reached the Atlantic ocean (east coast of South America) while the sweet potato also came from the west coast of South America to Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and back to West Polynesia early on, etc. Aloha no, Nau, Na Kumu K

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