7 * 9 = 63 is the reverse of 36 and it is probable that Eb7-9--10 refer to the season of Mecury:
The 'tree' has sunk very low, we can see, and mercury is a liquid (which like all liquids move effortlessly downwards). The many 'balls' in the 'tree' can be explained by the many cyclic convolutions the observations of Mercury will indicate, as visualized for instance in this mask of Humbaba (cfr at hanau):
Niu in Eb7-10 has a haga rave sign (reversed) at left. Metoro said ka tu te niu here, as if to indicate the beginning of a new cycle - earlier he had said ka tu te rakau:
|
||||||||||||||||
