4. Terra firma is the opposite of the sea. The Hittites were an ancient people and understood the old common language of myth. In rongorongo, I suspect, hanau is the opposite of tagata:

With tagata - a fully grown male warrior, standing firm on dry land - the fluid Hittite people who avoided battle were all of them like Hylas - female in character and no warriors at all.

When I began studying the glyph types of rongorongo I at first thought the wave-like bottom of hanau glyphs depicted the sea, that the person in question maybe was in a canoe far away so the canoe was hidden by the waves, below the horizon. Or perhaps he was standing in the water, bathing.

A fully grown warrior is standing firm on dry land like the midsummer sun. At summer solstice sun stands still not moving. The en face head in tagata is used also in hanau. The other possible solstice is winter solstice, when sun is very low and close to the horizon.

At winter solstice a new year is born (hanau). The Polynesians were well aware, though, of the fact that winter solstice south of the equator is equal to summer solstice north of the equator (and vice versa). Therefore, we can expect the rongorongo texts to have hanau glyphs both at summer and winter solstice, that they saw two 'years' where we have only one.

So far I have hopefully made myself understood. But myth is a rich source of hints about the more or less common world view of the ancients, and I have been influenced by several myths while thinking about what hanau may mean. I believe it is necessary to document something relating to these sources. It must be done by way of a chain of separate pages and the best place to do it is here from which a hyperlink is leading.