From a sun-oriented perspective Ga5-9 represents the last day of a tertial (4 * 30 = 120), but also the last day of Te Kioe Uri (the double-month from day 61 to day 120). The sky roof has steadily been pushed higher, and the tall neck in Ga5-7 illustrates this fact. Apart from astronomy there is another parallel reading of the text. Biology says it is a season of green growth. This colours the name of not only the double-month which is ending but also that of the following new double-month. Their character is different, though, because the 'rat' is male and the 'abyss' is female. Ga5-7 is expressing the male characteristic of a steadily growing 'neck' (gao):
The 'neck' has a double meaning, a true neck cannot grow, but the penis can. Astronomy and biology must in a magical world be in harmony. If nature shows that everything has started to grow, then the reason for the steadily higher sky roof should be related to the growth observed down on earth. Tane was the one who originally pushed sky and earth apart to let in light, myth says. Tane is the sun god and he is also the god of forests, like a tree he is standing tall. Tall and straight should be the characterisic of Te Kioe Uri. The following Te Poko Uri is its opposite, as low as possible (where water - and everything else sooner or later - collects). The rim of Rano Kau was the place where Hotu Matua fell on his face. When we see a little egg in the darkness under the viri wings in Ga5-8 it means the conjunction between male and female has given positive results. Still, though, the 'neck' is standing straight and tall, and the exceptionally straight back in Ga5-9 also says so:
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