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Weather By The Moon Almost all cultures we know of have set farming clocks around the month. Then crops were planted and harvested at particular phases. MAORI AND THE MOON The pre-European Maori month was purely a lunar one, commencing with the New Moon –or rather, with the Whiro night, when it is not visible – it follows that the named nights of the Moon’s age always presented in the same aspect, and so served as a reliable calendar. Maori farmers began planting kumara (sweet potato) on the nights called Oue, Ari, Rakaunui, Rakaumatohi, Takirau, and Orongonui, which were the 4th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 28th nights of the Moon or lunar month. No planting was done during Full Moon, nor on ‘Korekore’ days(21 st , 22 nd , and 23 rd nights) for it was believed that very poor crops would result. Although absolute uniformity was rare among the various tribes of the Maori people, due to scattering and diversity; nevertheless, most planted close to these dates. The planting months were September, October and November. ‘Kumara was planted at the time when the Moon is due north, at Sunset, or twilight, the planting may be continued for three days. Some tribes planted the tubers only during spring tides, that is for a period of three days at that period’ An exception seems to have been for gourds, which were big tuber bowls grown for storage. They were not eaten but used to hold seeds and water. Because they required rapid vigorous growth, gourds were generally planted on the Full Moon. This practice seems widespread. 46
1 Whiro 2 Tirea 3 Hoata 4 Oue 5 Okoro 6 Tamatea-tutahi 7 Tamatea-anana 8 Tamatea-aio 9 Tamatea-kaiariki 10 Ari-matanui 11 Huna 12 Mawharu 13 Maure 14 Ohua 15 Atua 16 Hotu 17 Turu 18 Rakau-nui 19 Rakau-matohi 20 Takirau 21 Oika 22 Korekore 23 Korekore-piri-ki-te-Tangaroa 24 Tangaroa-amua 25 Tangaroa-aroto 26 Tangaroa-kiokio 27 Otane 28 Orongonui 29 Mauri 30 Mutuwhenua Maori and the Moon TUHOE LUNAR FISHING CALENDAR Good fishing Poor nights for fishing. Kokopu do not sleep soundly Very poor fishing-nights. On the Ari night the light of the torches will alarm the fish and so they dart away. On theHuna night the fish are concealed. Fishing impossible; Moonlight too strong; fish cannot be approached. . . Fishing may be successful after midnight. 47
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Page 5 and 6: Contents THE FORMATION OF THE MOON
Page 7 and 8: LOOKING DIRECTLY AT THE MOON ......
Page 9 and 10: Formation of the Moon OTHELLO: ‘I
Page 11 and 12: Formation of the Moon day as the Lu
Page 13 and 14: Formation of the Moon no water. Moo
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Page 17 and 18: Formation of the Moon so, then the
Page 19 and 20: The Moon in Ancient History Mesopot
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Page 27 and 28: The Moon in Ancient History is usua
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Page 33 and 34: The Moon in Ancient History Charles
Page 35 and 36: The Moon in Ancient History strual
Page 37 and 38: Early Moon Watchers lore was Aristo
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Page 41 and 42: Early Moon Watchers inhabitants of
Page 43 and 44: Early Moon Watchers Diana...Diana..
Page 45: Planting by the Moon Moon, her char
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Page 51 and 52: MADNESS, ILL-WINDS, AND THE MOON On
Page 53 and 54: Madness and the Moon it is conceiva
Page 55 and 56: Madness and the Moon erly wind in s
Page 57 and 58: Madness and the Moon 6.00pm news. R
Page 59 and 60: Madness and the Moon is as predicta
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Page 63 and 64: NEW MOON The New Moon cannot be see
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Page 69 and 70: Tides and What pulls What The weath
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Page 73 and 74: Tides ies exert pulls on earthly th
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Page 93 and 94: PERIGEES AND APOGEES The rising or
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Perigees and Apogees a switch and m
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Perigees and Apogees its. Apogee an
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Perigees and Apogees the Apogee. Go
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Perigees and Apogees PERIGEE AND DI
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Perigees and Apogees out in 400 yea
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Comparing Cycles YEAR1996 Perigee A
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The Moon’s Declination Many folk
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on the table surface. If you could
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Declination days, while weather occ
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Declination But if the Moon is not
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Declination the Sun, the Earth, and
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Declination month out, year in and
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The range of influence of the Moon
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Declination mum Declinations are ab
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Declination left bank line is the M
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What Causes Weather? The Moon gives
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What Causes Weather of Earth to the
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alleling them. What Causes Weather
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What Causes Weather ple died. All t
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What Causes Weather tern in May 200
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What Causes Weather SCIENTISTS SOME
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What Causes Weather travel more to
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What Causes Weather ing. The differ
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The Barometer In 1638 Galileo notic
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NEW MOON RISING SETTING ATMOSPHERE
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Barometer Pascal also missed a prev
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Barometer rain could ensue again. I
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Predicting 1. PLOT DECLINATIONS FOR
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Predicting JANFEB MAR APR MAY JUN J
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Predicting OTHER FORECASTING SYSTEM
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Predicting HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR
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and cirrus means a storm coming. Wh
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Predicting for 40 days ‘twill rai
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Predicting Ants hurry to and fro ca
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165 northwest. WEATHER IN USA(GENER
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Looking Directly at the Moon Watch
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Predicting At this phase, the Moon
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Predicting until Last Quarter, beca
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Predicting Hemisphere or southwest
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Weather Maps (also called the geopo
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Weather Maps respectively the Ameri
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Weather Maps The captain of the int
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Weather Maps 181
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Weather Maps Moon to Earth for the
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Weather Maps lination points. On th
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OTHER WEATHER CONDITIONS NAME DEW F
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QUICK ATMOSPHERIC-TIDE CHART (SOUTH
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etween water and air when they are
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Questions percentage of air shifted
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Appendix 1 TRADITIONAL NAMES FOR FU
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no cell-phones, and one had to cont
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Journey Once we learned what they w
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Journey (11) - non-stop wind and ra
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Journey interested, not even in see
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Journey for two years. As an umbrel
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Foremostly I owe m
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1965 Brier, G.W., Diurnal and semid
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1965 Levengood, W.C., Factors influ
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sachusetts, Chapters 6 and 7, 1973
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Janthron Press How The Moon Affects
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Apogee/Perigee cycle 93 Apogees 93
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cloud 158 Cloudiness 63 clumsiness
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G gale 149 Gales 175 Galileo 41, 14
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Japan 27 Johannes Kepler 40 John Qu
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Moon Festival 30 Moon Festival. 29
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priests 38 Proverbs 160 Ptolemy 39
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Thunder Moon 195 thunderstorm 51, 7
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