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2. In the text of Aruku Kurenga a curious fact should be noticed:

 

Bb5-14 Bb6-25
ko te manu mata e toru etoru mata oona

Metoro has interpreted the head of moe as an 'eye' (mata) - te manu mata e toru, 'the bird with three eyes'. He probably has seen the strange 'eyes' on the beak as a sign of maitaki, where normally there are three halfcircles at right.

The head of moe could therefore maybe refer to the noon sky.

Counting glyphs from Bb1-1 the ordinal number of the first manu mata e toru is 177 = 3 * 59, which possibly could explain the first etoru:

 

176 50 699
Bb5-14 (177) Bb6-25 (228)
177 = 3 * 59 750
927

The second etoru could refer to 3 * 250.

In Bb5-14 the basic sign is tagata, a fully grown 'person', and 177 = 6 * 29.5 also indicates that a midpoint has been reached.

In Bb6-25 the basic sign is vae kore, an expectation of new light (also hinted at by the beak which is formed like a reversed viri).