There is evidence to contemplate at the beginning of the Large Washington Tablet text:

 

The first 4 glyphs are drawn as if they were located in mist. Barthel did not see them at all according to his picture of the glyph line, while Fischer saw only the upper halves of them. From Sa1-201 vision has cleared, light has dawned: vaha mea + tapa mea, no doubt at all about it.

In spite of the glyph numbers - by my system suggesting glyphs missing at e.g. the beginning of the line - very probably there never were any glyphs before Sa1-101 (nor between Sa1-104 and Sa1-201). All glyphs in line a1 are intact.

In the 'thumb' of Sa1-102 we recognize the peculiar upside down ragi at right in Ka1-1:

Ka1-3 may tell about the same events as those described in Sa1-103--201, because in the parallel of G (we have seen) vaha mea is included.

We can imagine how at the very beginning of time vaha mea dispersed the fog. There are 4 'foggy' glyphs before light dawns at Ka1-5. There are 4 'foggy' glyphs at the beginning according to both the K and the S texts.

Ka1-5 is a glyph type which should be close in meaning to vaha mea - we can see the open 'mouth' between the thumb and the other fingers, which makes us remember Ea9-25--26:

A great open 'mouth' characterizes also tara glyphs, and in Ea9-25 there is a gap between the thumb and the other fingers. An open mouth attached to a bent tail (as in tara) surely comes before the tail is straight again - when things will be straight and running smoothly, the sun will be shining, the birds singing, and all be well and in order.

In Ea9-26 there is no tail, surely a sign. I think it means that at the beginning of time there was no 'tail' (no earlier course of the sun canoe for instance). At the beginning of time there was no before.

And according to Ka1-5 the light was self-igniting - the eating gesture emanates from the 'fire arm' itself. We recognize the 'fire' in Ka3-13--14, but then it was coming from 'before' (Ka3-11--12):