"Tunud" is a word in HILIGAYNON, CEBUANO
túnud - To disappear, sink, go down, set.
Nagakatúnud na ang ádlaw. The sun is
setting. (cf. katúndan—the west).
tunúd - Sunk, set, gone down (of the sun,
etc.; cf. túnud).
túnud v {1} [A; c] convey below the surface of the water or into a pit.
Nagtúnud kug patayng irù sa lawud, I threw the dead dog into the deep part of the ocean.
Itúnud na ang lungun sa lungag, Lower the casket into the hole now.
{2} [B245; b6] for the sun to set.
Nagkatúnud (nagkatunud) na ang adlaw sa kasadpan, The sun is sinking in the west.
In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights.
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