Earth and Space News: Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani Arrived After Magnum’s Farewell to Love

Summary: Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani arrived after Magnum’s Farewell to Love April 17, 2020, and perhaps thereby averted a sniper aggrieving another survivor.

Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani arrived after Magnum’s Farewell to Love crime action drama television series episode April 17, 2020, and, by assuring no romantic stargazing, perhaps thereby averted a sniper aggrieving another survivor.

Director Bronwen Hughes and writer Ashley Charbonnet base private investigator Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) in a bus tour for Season Two’s 16th episode, series’ 36th overall. Robin’s Nest co-resident and majordomo (from Latin māior, “main” and domus, “household”) Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) comes as cover story for Magnum checking client-communicated infidelity claims. Another romantic bus tour member, Bert (Tanner Gil), dies while Magnum determines whether Krista’s (Caitlin King) husband deems correctly that she dallies with Gil (Brian Guest).

Nobody else expires, perhaps because of the Ku’uipo (“my sweetheart”) tour schedule embracing daytime, secluded experiences and thereby enabling the undercover sniper to eliminate target errors.

Stargazers frequently favor Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani (from Hawaiian Mānaiakalani, from Hawaiian mana, “hook”; ia, “fish”; ka, “the”; and lani, "chief, heavens, king, queen, royal one, sky").

The Hawaiian creation chant Kumulipo (“beginning in deep darkness”) gives Mauiakalani as son of ‘Akalana and moon goddess Hina and brother of Mauikiikii, Mauimua and Mauiwaena. Mauiakalani, hailed as Maui (from Hawaiian Māui, perhaps “to live, to subsist,” perhaps from Arabic ﻣﺤﻲ [mohyi], “life-giver”), harbors huge powers to harvest the Hawaiian homeland. He induced his three older brothers to impel the family fishing canoe even faster, ever further through open waters as he immersed his impressive fishhook Manaiakalani.

Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani journeys during the Kau (summer-season) months from May through October across night skies over all eight main and all 10 northeastern Hawaiian islands.

Polynesian and Hawaiian astronomy know Scorpius the Scorpion constellation as constellation Manaiakalani, Maui's Fishhook: Torsten Bronger (Bronger), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

The ancient Hawaiian chief, culture hero, demi-god (from Latin semideus, “half-god”) and trickster kept a wing from the Hawaiian moorhen (alae’ula locally, Gallinula galeata sandvicensis scientifically).

He located it, as fish bait, lucky because loved by Hina, for the giant trevally (ulua aukea locally, Caranx ignobilis scientifically) Pimoe, on his lucky fishhook. He managed to manipulate his magical fishhook such that the ocean floor moved surfaceward, massing into the Hawaiian islands even as Pimoe moved forward and upward. Magical fishhook, mortal fish and mortal fisher nestled in the night skies where mainland Unitedstatesians note the constellation Scorpius (from Latin scorpiō, from Greek σκορπίος, “scorpion”).

Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani occurs after spring- and summer-observed star family, Kaiwikuamo’o (“The Backbone”), and before fall- and winter-observed star family, Kekāomakali’i (“The [Canoe] Bailer of Makali’i”).

Hawaiian navigation by night-sky objects places Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani in dark spaces in the Milky Way galaxy, the latter presented as I’a-lele-i-aka (“Fish Leaping in Shadows”).

Maui queuing the leaping, shadow fish Lehua (“fine-scattered”) among his fish catches queues the Hawaiian islands into the continent the latter always quested for Hawaiian peoples. The hook shank, from eye to curve, and the pointed tip respectively reveal Lehuakona (“red ‘ohi’a [tree] blossom and Ka Maka (“the eye”), Antares and Shaula. Royal-red Lehuakona and royal-white Ka Maka respectively slide across night skies 'aina-malanai (east-southeast) to 'aina-kona (west-southwest) and noio-malanai (southeast by east) and noio-kona (southwest by west).

Maui’s Fishhook Manaiakalani triggers tender, touching, trusting thoughts, perhaps tightening ties between stargazing couples, through its fisher always thinking of Hawaiian peoples thriving on Hawaiian islands.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

"Imiloa ("to seek far") Astronomy Center, part of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, features a mosaic depicting a voyaging canoe in rough seas, on a full-moon night, guided by the 16 stars of Polynesian constellation Mānaiakalani (Maui’s Fishhook) (upper right), and with a snow-capped mountain in the background, and with the 16 stars of Polynesian constellation Mānaiakalani (Maui’s Fishhook) (upper right): Imiloa Astronomy Center @imiloaastronomycenter, via Facebook Sep. 2, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/imiloaastronomycenter/posts/10154483799259187/; Imiloa Astronomy Center @imiloaastronomycenter, via Facebook Sep. 2, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/imiloaastronomycenter/photos/a.107428654186/10154483799259187/

Polynesian and Hawaiian astronomy know Scorpius the Scorpion constellation as constellation Manaiakalani, Maui's Fishhook: Torsten Bronger (Bronger), CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scorpius_constellation_map.png

Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) join a romantic bus tour to watch allegedly unfaithful spouses for signs of an affair in Magnum P.I.'s Farewell to Love (season 2 episode 16): Fandom Of Magnum P.I. (CBS) @MagmumPIFandom, via Twitter April 16, 2020, @ https://twitter.com/MagmumPIFandom/status/1250779418303148038https://twitter.com/What2Vue/status/1250019639914106886

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