The Octopus in Polynesia alludes to the Navigator of the gods, #TAGALOA / #KANALOA / #TANGAROA / #TAAOA, also called in some regions O LE FE'E, the reverential name for him: "THE Octopus", i.e. the Octopus's Octopus.
Visual cognates of Octopus and the words that go with them include: Polynesian: FE'E, WHEKE, HE'E, HEKE Lakota: HE-HÁKA
I bring this up on account of a reference in Lakota to the Number Twelve, which is #AKENONGPA / #akenoᶇpa.
Twelve (12) is a magic number that occurs repeatedly throughout Semitic mysticism and religious symbolism, i.e. "The Twelve Tribes", the "Twelve Gates of Zion" descended from heaven, with Three Gates on each of the Four Cardinal Directions of the walls of the city, "The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac", the "Twelve Apostles".
The etymology of the word "TWELVE" in Lakota breaks down into: AKHÉ: "again", "another", "re-" HE: "horn" ONGPA / oᶇpa: "elk".
The word AKHÉN in Lakota relates to "many divisions".
How does this relate to FE'E?
Another way of examining FE'E is to apply some etymological magic:
FE + E + TE
FE : a pluralizing prefix for VERBS E : pronoun, "by" TE : verb, "to be split", "to divide"
At its fundamental level, the word / name means "Many Divisions".
Why did I go here?
Because AKHÉN in Lakota means "many divisions" / "many HORNS" and ONGPA is a female elk. Apropos for a tribal society that reveres the moon, and women in a matrilineal, matrilocal tradition. Grandmother Spider (Kokyangwso'wuuti) and Spider Woman are prominent figures in native American oral traditions.
Eight legs, four divisions of two.
This is a Four Corners / Four Winds / Four Pillars reference. Four Directions they went--both male and female.
And because I am aware of the name of a #Pharaoh King named #Akhenaten ... AKHEN-ATEN who sowed the seeds of Monotheism in Egypt that later re-appeared in the time of MOSHE / MOSES, who led TWELVE TRIBES out of Egypt according to Scriptures.
His name is written: 𓇋𓏏𓈖𓅜𓐍𓈖
From:
𓇋 - y 𓏏 - t 𓈖 - n ("of", or "by") 𓅜 - 'yakh ("divine") 𓐍 - kh ("placenta", or "sieve") 𓈖 - n ("of", or "by")
His name basically means "Son of #Aten (RA)". #ATON is a glaringly obvious cognate of #ADONAI. He claimed to be a Son of the Sun. His reign lasted only sixteen years and was met with substantial pushback from the ancient priesthood that was threatened by his religious reformations. Hmmmmm. Where have we heard this story before?
Maui! Also known as Tagaloa-a-Ui in Sāmoa. This legendary personage is listed as an ancestor in all Polynesian ali'i (chiefly / royal) genealogies. In Sāmoa, he was the ancestor of the Tuimanu'a lineages whose many pedigrees extended to Tonga, Hawai'i, Tahiti, and beyond. Basically, wherever a Maui story exists, and a chiefly system, there are his children. His descendants everywhere call themselves by some variation of the epithet "Children of the Sun".
Parallel Timeline between Egypt and Polynesia: 1352 B.C.E. - 1336 B.C.E. - 16 year reign
The Egyptian "Sun King" Akhenaten who introduced the seeds of monotheism to Egyptian culture. He was regarded as a heretic in his time localizes his time to approximately 57 years before #Moshe (#Moses) and #Rammesses II (The Great)
1279 B.C.E. - 1213 B.C.E. - 66 year reign
Rammeses II rules in Egypt. His is the longest reign on record.
1200 B.C.E.
The estimated start of the #Olmec civilization in South and Central America.
Note that the Hawaiian etymology has really negative connotations as evidenced in the meaning of KE'E ("crooked", "bent", which is another way of saying "forked", "divided").
Recognize that Kanaloa was regarded with revulsion in Hawai'i and as a source of evil and trouble, whereas elsewhere in Polynesia Kanaloa / Tagaloa was revered. Are we looking at the division in the camps of the Hebrews--those who would follow Moshe's god and those who would not, moreover the division between Akhenaten's monotheism and the Theban traditional polytheism?
1600 B.C.E. to 500 B.C.E.
Around this same time, anthropology confirms that there was a major migration and push out of Asia into the Pacific, that essentially overwrote a substantial previous culture among the Melanesians. This push is today called "The Lapita" culture, which made its earliest forays into the Pacific sometime between 1600 B.C.E and 500 B.C.E. This huge span of time certainly covers the latter part of the Bronze Age and leaves room for both Akhenaten's heresy to "contaminate" the Pacific and the Exodus of the Hebrews into 40 years of wandering in the "Wilderness/Desolation of Sīn", the "desolation of the moon god" who was also a "sea god". The "40 year" reference is a direct allusion to Mesopotamian celestial mysticism related to the Sea God Enki / Ea (Yah?).
So, what am I saying here? Well, more like what am I asking?
Did Akhenaten's heresy send a cultural ripple through the ancient world that culminated in an Exodus of monotheistic sun-moon worshippers who crossed the Red Sea by boat, and then kept going... out into the Indian Ocean, down to Madagascar, simultaneously eastward along the coast round India, then on and on to the mountains of fire following pillars of smoke by day, and pillars of fire by night, and ultimately to America where we again find the seeds of pyramid building civilizations whose worship revolved around the Sun and Moon?
Long question.
But this story is there, buried in the etymologies of dying / struggling indigenous languages and oral cultures, legends, myths, proverbs, genealogies, and rituals overwritten by Christianity.
Who are the indigenous people of the Pacific and America?
====================== Notes from Zoology / Biology: "Biologists have observed that during the full moon phase elk are particularly active at night because they can see better to feed and spot predators more easily. This full moon confidence boost means that they stay out all night instead of foraging in just the early mornings and late evenings. The result is akin to an elk hangover—especially during the rut. By the time the sun replaces the moon, elk are exhausted and overindulged to the point they stay bedded down until night rolls around again. This can be a serious downer for hunters hoping to catch elk out and about during daylight hours...when the full moon coincides with the peak of the rut?...bulls bugle, battle and breed all night. Some data suggests that conception rates might even spike during those wild nights of uninterrupted wooing. (https://www.huntingfishing.com/.../how-does-the-full.../)
Interpretation (mine): Native Americans recognized the relationship between this creature's behavior and the cycles of the moon, which in Lakota also comprises part of the word for "sun" -- WY.
The word for Sun and Moon are etymologically related. The Sun (WY) and the Moon (HANGWY), which literally means "Scabby Sun" on account of the visibly pock-marked texture as visible with the naked eye.
I suspect that this linguistic relationship relates to the disease called #leprosy which was rampant throughout the Middle East, and is oft referenced in Scriptures. The word SINA / HINA alludes to skin disorders of all kinds that result in splotchy brown or red skin, and also relates to albinism.
And wasn't Moshe's sister, Miriam, afflicted with leprosy?
NUMBERS 12: 1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.
2 “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this.
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
4 At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.
5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward,
6 he said, “Listen to my words: 'When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.
7 But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.
8 With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?'"
9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them.
10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,
11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”
13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!”
14 The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.”
15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
It would seem that "lunar" associations have a slightly negative context, hints of "foolishness", the folly of Miriam.
That Moses' wife Zipporah was a Cushite (an African of dark skin), suggests that there were indeed Africans in the company of the Hebrews as they tracked across the world, maybe even across the Pacific, the "wilderness of Sīn", to America where we see numerous archaeological finds of fine stone workmanship depicting clearly African persons of unknown, forgotten identity. Even to this day there are found strong negative attitudes in Israel, in Hebrew culture, against Cushim on account of the legendary curse upon Cush.
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