In Aa6-66 there is a most remarkable special ua sign:
It comes immediately before Aa6-67 which - we should remember (cfr vaha mea) - probably marks summer solstice: 'In Aa6-67 the (sun) fish is designed as if being swallowed by a hoea glyph. At summer solstice the opposite of mea occurs - the dark season will begin.' The strange creature in Aa6-66 vomits, and the ua sign must here be connected with a fluid, possibly water in the form of rain (ûa). Aa6-65 and Aa6-66 may be a pair - the 'moon signs' at the bottom of vai in Aa6-65 are similar to the signs at bottom right in the 'strange creature'. Possibly the 'rain' (ûa) could be Vaiora a Tane, the flow of healthy life-giving sun light. The ua sign in Aa6-66 is reversed compared to the normal orientation. Metoro seems to have interpreted the strange glyph as depicting the Milky Way (goe): 'e he goe kua moe'. |
