4. Then I once again came to see a piece of wood in the henua glyph type, because at midsummer sun is at maximum height and this fact has been imagined - all over the world - as if he had climbed to the top of a kind of cosmic tree:
The 'Rain God' is here (left picture) at midsummer climbing the 'cosmic tree', which in reality was the Milky Way. At midsummer our galaxy was seen standing tall with the imagined 'crocodile head' at bottom, where there is a vacant space without stars, formed like the open jaw of some kind of monster. The picture is hard to interpret, therefore another more naturalistic and easier to 'read' picture (from Maya Cosmos) is presented at right. Though it is different in content, the crocodile is in the same position. My point is that the 'tree' imagined at midsummer ought to have its place also among the rongorongo signs, and I suggest its place is in the 'climber' and his 'tree', the glyph type which functions as a measure for sun's advance over the 1st half of the year:
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