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A description should start by repeating how the 4 viri glyphs have been characterized by me earlier:

Ab1-1 Ab7-26 Aa5-7 Aa8-26

Ab1-1 is harmoniously drawn, but short in contrast to Ab7-26. Aa8-26 has a thick bottom 'tail' end, whereas Ab7-26 contrariwise has a thick upper 'tail'. Aa5-7 and Aa8-26 are drawn as if deformed. Neither the top part nor the bottom part in Aa5-7 is thick, and the glyph is slightly stooping forward, as if it was old. The top end in Aa8-26 looks as if it has been cut off.

Ab1-1 is located (we can infer by its short stature and other circumstances) to be the place of 'birth' and Aa8-26 to be the place of 'death'. Ab7-26 has a prominent upper part - it is located in 'high light', and from there the development proceeds downwards. Metoro began reading at the right place, at the beginning of side b:

Ab1-1 Ab1-2

Ab1-2 is number 672 counted from Aa1-1, and 672 = 4 * 168 = 24 * 28. The sunlit time is over. 28 is the number of nights in a month when sun is 'looking at' the moon, and 24 = 4 * 6, i.e. what could be called 4 'quarters of the sun'.

Ab1-1--2 together indicate the 'birth' of a season in moon light, because the crescent is drawn integrated with hau tea. The Egyptian 'ducklings', on the other hand, were drawn as entitites separate from the crescent 'nest', they are little sun birds:

Three sets of two wings is equal to six wings. Their heads are drawn similar to how sun once used to be drawn all over the world, with a black pupil. Though in the rongorongo texts such a pupil will never be seen, because the fundamental rule was to draw only outlines.