At hakaturou the bird Seven-Macaw was mentioned, he who 'imagined he was the sun' and therefore landed in the top of the Tree:  '... in the time before the sky was lifted up to make room for the light, the vainglorious Seven-Macaw imagined himself to be the sun. Offended by his pride, the Hero Twins humbled him by breaking his beautiful shining tooth with a pellet from their blowgun ...' I suggest the empty eye-socket in Ca4-24 is a parallel - the beautiful shining eye has been removed:
It was One-Ahaw who shot away the shining tooth. Ahau is the last of the 20 day names, but curiously the glyph seems to depict 'Lord Sun' descending, because Likin means east and its top part evidently shows the path of sun in the center, i.e. the Ahau sign is the upside down version:
... The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs) 'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ... The 'First-Lord' (One-Ahaw) should be the 'spring garment' of Sun, i.e. Mars. He 'shoots away' the Old Year, as I understand it. In the parallel (as I imagine it to be) C account Mars is the first of 4 black nights. 7-Macaw has his number, I think, from being the last period among 7 of the Old Year. Possibly the number refers to the equation 364 / 7 = 52. If Mars 'kills' the Old Fire, then he must be located in the first position of the 4 dark nights. But he also represents the 1st quarter (364 / 4 = 91). Thus he is both in the east (Likin) and at the end of the day series. |
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