6. A list is an instrument for thinking globally, to perceive the whole rather than the details. The basic structural feature of life, which immediately will be discovered when thinking globally, is the cyclic nature of everything. The contrasts (light, darkness, up, down, in, out, etc.) always change periodically. Life moves in cycles, as dictated by time (by Moon). If te was used for the time when Sun was present (exemplified in the names of the kuhane stations), it ought to have a contrasting opposite - to form a pair - similar to yet radically different from te. Possibly he served this function.
A sense of confusion apparently adheres to he. When light is poor it is easy to go astray. Te could be combined with ka (fire) into the male 'fire stick', teka. At henua I quoted from Coe: ... one sign, very common in the [Mayan] codices where it appears affixed to main signs, can be read as 'te' or 'che', 'tree' or 'wood', and as a numerical classifier in counts of periods of time, such as years, months, or days. In Yucatec, you cannot for instance say 'ox haab' for 'three years', but must say 'ox-te haab', 'three-te years'. In modern dictionaries 'te' also means 'tree', and this other meaning for the sign was confirmed when Thompson found it in compounds accompanying pictures of trees in the Dresden Codex ... There is a possibility of influence between the Maya and the Polynesians, which could have determined a common notion about trees and sticks for counting (and maybe also letters, as in ancient Ireland). The straight sticks used for determining the positions of Sun and stars were not of any use when trying to measure the positions of Moon - her path changes seemingly erratically and is not 'straight'. She is 'crooked' (he). Therefore the letter U (or the glyph type hanga rave) is appropriate for her. If 10 is looked upon as a picture we can see the straight stick followed by the bent path forming a cycle. By the way, Fornander surely would have found Greek déka (10) to be a relative of Polynesian teka. Mathematical zero is a difficult concept, not in harmony with thinking globally, not a natural number. When 10 is reached it only means a new cycle will begin, and you cannot add it to the previous cycle because it is either the previous cycle which has returned or a cycle of another kind. The 2nd half of the year is different from the 1st half, and therefore you have to change the mode of counting and continue on your toes. The meaning of kea could be the different (ke) light (tea) which comes in spring (after the tea light from Moon during winter). With pikea (at Ab6-84) we may have an allusion to the very first month of spring pi riuriu (when Sun has gone around his circle, π, 'dolmen'):
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