2. Another sign to consider in nuku glyphs are the legs. They suggest moving. The solstices are times of no movement, presumably expressed by haga rave:
Here both glyphs are number 17 in their glyph lines, which probably indicates that movement is about to begin again. Haga rave is at left. But neither nuku nor honu have yet developed legs. The day numbers can be counted as 271 / 2 + 64 = 199.5 respectively 591 / 2 + 64 = 359.5 When honu moves he may be swimming (kau), that is what Metoro sometimes said:
Though kau also means to 'multiply'. At winter solstice the land is as if submerged - light is so poor - but when in high summer the horse-fly (takaure) arrives, there is land to walk on. A wordplay may be involved, because takau means 10 pairs, and if we count with a year measuring 20 * 20 = 400 days, 10 pairs of 20 is equal to 200. *Qa7-17 will then be the first part of the 'zero day' in the middle of the year:
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