A 'foreign rat' is what the Easter Islanders called a rabbit, not a bad description considering the prominent front teeth. Both rats and rabbits are rodents. Another common trait is the power to quickly reproduce. When recently taking a thorough look at the Mayan calendars I was struck by their peculiar 8th day name Lamat (rabbit). Now, that I have learnt about kiore hiva I can imagine there is a common denominator.

This little puzzle (inside the greater puzzle of how to interpret henua glyphs) has another piece: I have already shown the Mayan te glyph, in which I imagined 'rabbits teeth' shining down from the sky onto earth:

The 'rabbits teeth' sign propably is fetched from the 2nd day name glyph (Ik):

Ik means 'air, life', and according to man's ancient common myths about the original creation there was at first only dark water with no sky and no earth, then the sky was raised up letting in air and light (i.e. ik), and only in the third and last phase did earth rise up from the ocean. The first three 'Rain God' positions describe the Creation:


water	air	earth

While water can be visualized by a canoe (and a sea monster), air is more difficult to depict. It is not visible, which explains why we cannot see the 'residence' through which the sun god is walking.

Probably the double 'spear' which the 'Rain God' holds in his 'air residence' is another illustation of the 'front teeth of the rabbit'. He is high in the air and his double 'spear' is pointing downwards.