The fundamental rima aueue sign (without any extra signs added) depicts a downwards moving flow, like an undulating river. But it seems to be a river of light, maybe the 'living water' of Tane. We can compare with the famous pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, where at equinoxes a 'feathered serpent' (a stream of light triangles) undulates down the northern staircase. In the text of G rima aueue signs show us where the 360-day solar year begins and ends:
472 (the total number of glyphs in the G text - with Gb8-30 counted twice) is equal to 300 (the number of days with sun 'present') + 30 (Gb8-30--Ga1-29) + 30 (Gb4-10--Gb5-6) + 112. Rima aueue signs end the two 30-day months where sun has not yet arrived, respectively has left. Basically, though, rima aueue belongs at the end, because in Ga1-29 the sign is reversed (drawn as a 'ghost' and with aueue arm at left). This reversal involves also its location - instead of being at the beginning of a month of 30 pre-solar days (as in a true mirror image) it is at the end of the pre-solar month. At bottom right in Gb5-5 there is a sign which alludes to hipu. The comparatively few rima aueue signs suggest we should interpret them by keeping in mind the meanings of other glyph types with general outlines more or less like rima aueue:
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