Instead we can find two other interesting glyphs in the middle:
It is hardly a coincidence that the first of them is turned head down (as in Gb1-7 at Te Pei), while the second stands straight with head up, when at the same time they both carry a fish (the left great and the right smaller, with a black head). Probably these two fishes represent the sun respectively the moon. Surely Aa8-24 belongs to Akahanga (with sun head down) and Aa8-25 to Hatinga Te Kohe (where moon is released from the 'bamboo'). If this suggestion is correct, then we have determined the beginning of the 59 glyph long sequence which describes Hatinga Te Kohe:
The rule - we can see - is that twice the number at a kuhane station in G determines the first of a pair of glyphs (e.g. Aa8-82--83). Earlier we counted with a pair of glyphs where the second of them corresponded to twice the number in G. The new rule is in a way logical, because what is important should always comes first. |