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Ca6-27	Ca6-28	Ca7-1		Ca7-24
167	168	169		192

At left in the strange composition of Ca7-1 a sun symbol is at bottom (past) and at the top (present) is a rhomb which presumably refers to the moon. At bottom (past) in Ca7-24 a broken 'staff' illustrates that the rule of waxing moon now has broken.

The top (present) shows a person sitting down and eating (kai):

The hand gesture should be interpreted as 'growing' (only by eating can you grow). But waning moon is shrinking, not growing. Neither has sun reached a point in his development which we immediately can associate with growth - beyond Nga Kope Ririva (177) there is only sea towards the horizon in the west.

But - indeed - the crucial point of growth is its very beginning. The little person is inside the full moon perimeter, which means he is in the 'womb'. A new year is beginning at conception, not at birth. Evidence supporting this reading of Ca7-24 comes from Nuahine ká umu a ragi kotikoti.