‘Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch Applauds Makalii and Makahiki Arriving

Summary: ‘Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch applauds Makalii and Makahiki arriving with the asterism arising at the Koolau area of sunset-articulated skies.

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'Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch acclaims seven-eyed, seven-sistered, seven-starred Pleiades, acknowledged in Hawaiian culture as Makalii, abiding in darkened skies exactly at daily sunset. That asterism announces the annual four-month-long Makahiki Harvest Festival; "Annotated Image of the Pleiades and HST Field of View," image of the Pleiades, also known as Seven Sisters and as Messier 45 (M45), obtained by NASA Hubble Space Telescope and released June 01, 2004 9:00AM (EDT); credit NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech: Courtesy NASA and STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute): No claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and material on this site may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract, via NASA Hubblesite

‘Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch applauds Makalii and Makahiki arriving with the asterism arising at the Koolau (from Hawaiian maka, “stars”; li’i, “little”; hiki, “to come”; Ko’olau, “north”) area of sunset-articulated skies.

The Hawaiian asterism Makalii (from Hawaiian Makali’i) becomes the English Seven Sisters and the Anglo-Greek Pleiades (from Greek πλέω, “[season] to float, to sail” via Πλειάδες). The Pleiades asterism, as open star cluster in the constellation Taurus (from Latin taurus, “bull”), clusters seven sisters: Alcyone, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, Sterope and Taygete. It designates the seven daughters of the nymph Pleione and the Titan Atlas, therefore the maternal granddaughters of Titan water-body god and goddess Oceanus and Tethys.

Tethys’ daughter Pleione and son-in-law Atlas basally and Alcyone (from Greek τήθη, “grandmother”; Πληιόνη, Πλειόνη, “to increase in number”; ἀλκυών, “kingfisher”) post-like elucidate the seven-sisters cross.

Merope, Electra and Celaeno (from Greek μερος ωψ, “part face" via Μερόπη "face turned"; Ἠλέκτρα, “amber”; Κελαινώ, “the dark one”) form half of the seven-sisters crosspiece.

Maia, Taygeta and Sterope (from Greek μαῖα, “lady”; Ταϋγέτη; στεροπή, “lightning” via Στερόπη), grouped into an arching half-circle, generate the last half of the seven-sisters crosspiece. The little-eyed, seven-eyed, little-starred, seven-starred Makalii asterism hovers above the koolau (from Hawaiian Ko’olau, “north, windward”) horizon even as each November night, our Sun heads downward. Five-forty-five p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard (1:45 Chamorro, 4:45 Samoa, 7:45 Alaska, 8:45 Pacific, 9:45 Mountain, 10:45 Central, 11:45 Eastern, 12:45 a.m. next-day Atlantic) Time initiates November sunsets.

‘Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch jubilates its ‘Imiloa Nowemapa sky charts even as the Polynesian-ancestored Hawaiian archipelago anciently and traditionally judged month names district- and island-specific.

Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, kindles the ancient, four-month-long, traditional Hawaiian New Year known as Makahiki Harvest Festival of November and December 2024, January and February 2025.

Modern Hawaiian likens the month November to Nowemapa even as the Prince Kuhi’o Hawaiian Civic Club Calendar logs the name Welehu for late October, early November. Welehu marks the cooler, wetter Hooilo season (from Hawaiian welehu, “deep-sea fish”; Ho’oilo, “to germinate, sprout”) and merges with the next-month late November, early December Makalii. Kaelo and Kaulua respectively niche late December, early January and late January, early February even as late February niches elsewhere, outside the Makahiki Harvest Festival months.

‘Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch observes the asterism Makalii and the Makahiki Harvest Festival to agriculture, fertility, music, peace, rain god Lono (from Hawaiian lono, “tidings”?).

Nana, for late February, early March, and Welo (from Hawaiian nana, “to watch”?; welo, “sunset”), for late March, early April, pertain as last two Hooilo-season months.

Seven-starred Makalii quests the sailing season’s peaceful, prosperous quintessence in such quarters as Welehu-quadranted akule (scad fish, Trachurops crumenophthalmus) and ‘opelu (mackerel scad, Decapterus macarellus) fishing. Makalii, Kaelo and Kaulua respectively rally akule, ‘ama’ama (mullet, Mugil cephalus) and ’opule; inshore and reef fishing; arrowroot, banana, gourd, kalo, olona, ‘uala, wauke, yam plantings. Next-to-last month Nana sees mullet fishing even as inshore and reef fishing stops and last month Welo suggests deep-sea, malolo (flying fish, Evolantia microptera) and mullet.

‘Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch transmits the sunless-skied treks of seven-starred Makalii as the latter asterism tenders the first month in the annual Makahiki Harvest Festival.

Four-month Makahiki festival begins with rising of star cluster Makali‘i (Pleiades or Seven Sisters) over Hawaiian horizon at sunset in late October or early November; Makahiki honors Lono, one of four main gods recognized throughout the Pacific and associated with agriculture, fertility, peace and rainfall; for the festival's tradition of hānaipū, or the feeding of Lono, priests represented Lono by carrying a long pole (akua loa) topped with a statue of Lono and with a cross-bar draped with white kapa (bark-cloth) and decorated with pala fern (Marattia douglasii; they made a clockwise circuit of the islands in 23 days as they visited ahupua'a (ancient Hawaiian land divisions); National Park Service (NPS) photo of "Akua Loa," 2019 watercolor by Phoenix, Arizona-based artist and desert wildlife biologist Alexandra "Allie" Giambalve: Public Domain, via Haleakalā National Park

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'Imiloa November 2024 Sky Watch acclaims seven-eyed, seven-sistered, seven-starred Pleiades, acknowledged in Hawaiian culture as Makalii, abiding in darkened skies exactly at daily sunset. That asterism announces the annual four-month-long Makahiki Harvest Festival; "Annotated Image of the Pleiades and HST Field of View," image of the Pleiades, also known as Seven Sisters and as Messier 45 (M45), obtained by NASA Hubble Space Telescope and released June 01, 2004 9:00AM (EDT); credit NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech: Courtesy NASA and STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute): No claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and material on this site may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract, via NASA Hubblesite @ https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2004/20/1563-Image.html; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M45map.jpg

Four-month Makahiki festival begins with rising of star cluster Makali‘i (Pleiades or Seven Sisters) over Hawaiian horizon at sunset in late October or early November; Makahiki honors Lono, one of four main gods recognized throughout the Pacific and associated with agriculture, fertility, peace and rainfall; for the festival's tradition of hānaipū, or the feeding of Lono, priests represented Lono by carrying a long pole (akua loa) topped with a statue of Lono and with a cross-bar draped with white kapa (bark-cloth) and decorated with pala fern (Marattia douglasii; they made a clockwise circuit of the islands in 23 days as they visited ahupua'a (ancient Hawaiian land divisions); National Park Service (NPS) photo of "Akua Loa," 2019 watercolor by Phoenix, Arizona-based artist and desert wildlife biologist Alexandra "Allie" Giambalve: Public Domain, via Haleakalā National Park @ https://www.nps.gov/hale/learn/historyculture/makahiki.htm

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