3. The form of manu kake suggests the sky dome, dawn (right), evening (left) and midnight (in the middle). To hold the sky dome up there ought to be a central (zenith) pillar of some kind, and it is evidently the body of manu rere:

But other variants do exist, especially noteworthy is a rising fish (ika):

Eb5-29	Eb5-30

These are the first two glyphs of 26 in the last period among 24 (in the Keiti calendar where every period - except this one ends with kiore - henua). Possibly the pair represents the two halves of the sky, with the high half (cap) at left and the low (cup) at right.

Ordinal number 29 suggests dark (alluding to the 29th dark night of the moon), while 5 * 30 = 150 suggests light (alluding to the middle of a 300 day long summer).

In autumn the souls of the dead rise up into the sky like birds. Rising 'fishes' are to be looked for in the east. In both cases it could be said that they are climbing (kake).