The ariki looking straight ahead at us stands close to the beginning of the season of light:
No Rei has arrived as yet but 'dawn' is on its way:
Ariki at Ga1-24 is the last glyph in the season beginning at Gb1-7 (with day 237 + 58 = 295 = 10 * 29.5, the season of the moon). He represents a very dark night (number 261 from Gb1-7). The ghostly henua and the sign at left in Ga1-23 suggests this ariki arrives from the underworld (like the son of the old one). The sign of the 'fist' (of the old one) is at left. In Ab6-42, a similar case - though with a real henua, not an imaginary one - the young one is opening up his gap in front:
The location early on side a makes me guess we are looking at somebody who is not a true king. He may be an atariki, a word which I read as a pun: ata means shadow, and Ga1-24 could be a little king in spe, still in the shadow of the old one, meaning the moon, his mother. As I recall it, Barthel somewhere has suggested the reading atariki (eldest son to the king) for this glyph type because he has no head gear. Furthermore, a complex of wordplays centered on atariki must be recognized, which necessitates a detour. |
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