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Even more clear becomes the situation when we realize these two henua glyphs together demarcate the region in which all 10 such glyphs on side a are standing:

Ga4-3 Ga4-12 Ga4-25 Ga5-2 Ga5-18
Ga5-20 Ga5-23 Ga5-26 Ga6-7 Ga6-13

Here it is probably correct to say 'standing'. In the season of rising sun it looks as if he is climbing an invisible bamboo stem, section for section.

"The Moriori priests taught that Rangi and Papa existed in close and loving embrace until a spirit without origin forced them asunder. His name was Rangi-tokona, Sky-propper, and he corresponds with the Tui-tee-langi of Samoan myth. Rangi-tokona first politely requested Rangi and Papa to separate but they refused. Then he lifted Rangi higher and higher by means of magical incantations and propped him up on ten pillars which he placed one on top of the other so that they formed a single, long support. Then for the first time light shone in upon the earth." (Makemson)