My idea of haś ke as a sign of a 'luminary rising' has now been 'proven' false. Instead both haś and haś ke are evidently referring to 'light at the back' (in the past):
In Ca6-7--9 this 'fire at the back' may have more than one designation. Consistent with the triplet of eating persons for spring is an interpretaion of the 'feathers' at the back as signifying how the season of 'fire in the sky' now is in the past. Befor spring arrives there is a time when the 'sky roof' is being separated from 'earth' (in the sky) and in between the spring light enters. This 'fire' is brought down to earth by some divine intervention: ... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps ... Sun is reborn at winter solstice and Moon - being his opposite - will therefore begin her cycle at midsummer. Maybe Sun is allotted 9 * 40 = 360 days, but Moon is not being 'decapitated' (instead rejuvenated each month) and her cycle can be 10 * 40 = 400 days long. Counting by her cycle we should begin at summer solstice, and accordingly Sun appears to have reached his limit at etoru kiori:
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