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In Manuscript E (according to Barthel 2) there are clues. Ure Honu had a banana plantation and when he weeded it a rat appeared which lead him to the skull of Hotu Matua. The rat was the kuhane of the old solar king Hotu Matua.

Ure means lineage and honu means turtle. Ure Honu is the name of the successor to the 'honu' (sun king). Ure Honu, we can understand, is the new king, because he found the yellow skull in his plantation. He had received it by the aid of the kuhane (the black rat), he had the good 'will' of the old king:

"... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb.

'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ... " (Campbell 2)

We can identify the black rat with Upwaut, the wolf-god, the 'Opener of the Way'. There were no wolves on Easter Island.