Also H has its parallel hupee in line a6, and here at the very end of the line:
The following hipu indicates a 'break' between line a6 and a7:
The glyph type hipu exhibits the opposite characteristics of hupee, a single hanging down 'fruit' instead of a triplet of 'fingers' held high. The word hipu looks like the result of hupee having been played around with. Furthermore, there is a 'midnight' type of henua in Ha7-10. Counting with 5 'invisible' glyphs in the burnt area in line a6 its ordinal number becomes 12 * 29½ = 354. Tagata in Ha7-3 has a single mata sign as head. It could refer to Sun - who is only half a 'person' because he is present only during half the year. In the sacred geograhpy of the island his presence probably is corresponding to the northern coast, his absence to the southern coast. Tagata in Ha7-9 is drawn en face and with empty hands. The elbow ornaments are like legs, the one at left fatter than the one at right. It fits with my idea of a correspondence between item 24 in the 2nd list of place names and hupee in line a6 (of both Q and H). The season when Sun is present brings affluence, the season of his absence brings hunger (empty hands): ... Rehua had two wives, the stars on either side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi), the other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be harvested ... The 'extra pair of legs' at the elbows is a sign which presumably indicates a change from one sequence in time to another. It could be a sign adapted from the 'extra pair of arms' in Indian iconography:
The right hand of the central figure is not only open but also has a 'zero' sign. Is the left hand holding out a bread? The torso seems to have 3 sun symbols (circles with 'pupils'). Also the 'beast' (bottom right from us seen) and the man (bottom left) have these triplets of sun symbols, which presumably means all 3 figures are one and the same. They correspond to the triplet of sun symbols. |
