The Maori word for Time is "ake." Their term for Eternity is "akeakeake." "Rapu" means to look for. "Rapurapu" means to be in doubt.

In Linguistics it's called Reduplication. It's the process by which meaningful morphemes mirror themselves. They duplicate, or triplicate, whatever it takes. When they do, the new term formed by the duplication of elements Riffs off in meaning. So "sam" means blood and when I need a word for Red I use the thing which "reminds" me of Red which is Blood but now I double it. So it no longer means Blood but an "attribute" or "spirit" of blood, it's "Redness." The Chinese do the same thing in their written language to form abstractions. Since Chinese Characters, like the Western Alphabet at root, are composed of Picto and Ideo-graphs and not symbols for sounds - it is very difficult to form abstractions. How do you draw a Pictograph of the word Dense? What is an image of Dense? The Chinese Reduplicate Characters which already exist. Like this: the Character for "tree" is a small image of a tree, roots below, branches above. To form the written character for "forest," they duplicate the "tree" sign. One tree = tree. 2 trees = forest. So do you see how to write Dense in Chinese? 3 trees = Dense. Grasp this: 1 woman = woman. 2 women = quarrel. 3 women = adultery. This Linguistic Process of Reduplication happens in all languages at some level. It's a Universal, so it's actually a feature of the brain/mind which does this. Reduplication and Intensification create Abstracted Entities.

The Amulet above - the 3 dicked figure with the wings is a product of the mind's tendency to intensify feeling/affect and reduplicate the bearer of the message so as to arrive at an abstracted level of meaning. It is obviously an image of a man's dick - but it doesn't much mean that anymore.

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