In Ya1-2 there is a fat (waning season) kiore who is eating (kai). His feet are not drawn in the normal manner with 3 toes. Instead his feet are more like fins, suggesting he is in the water:
He is not eating much, not growing very quick. Why should he? He is fat. A separate entity is at right (while the fat kiore is in the past), consisting of (possibly) haga rave ending in ragi. The sky roof is rising in front, maybe. Yet light seems to be barred in Ya1-3, if we judge from how the Mayas depicted it:
The first quarter is a quarter still not moving much. It needs more of the spirit of Io, 'that he might cease remaining inactive'. This is what Rei in Ya1-5 delivers:
The empty shell (pure) in Ya1-4 is the opposite - nothing alive in there. Possibly we should understand it as the shell of the turtle (sun down in the sea). If his shell now is empty, it could mean the water has subsided and land has risen above the water, that spring has arrived with the 2nd quarter. The 3 stones on top of the turtle (cfr Nga Kope Ririva) are the first to rise above the surface of the sea:
3 double-months of summer heat lie ahead, because we can count to day 240, summer does not end with midsummer:
I suggest the year was thought of as a struggle between the dark and light forces, a tug of war which never ended. The forces were on avarage equally strong but at a given time they were not equal, one was always stronger. I will illustrate my argument in a separate page. |
