4. The idea of Sun in the morning being a little newborn baby and in the evening a 'dry old calabash' implies corresponding qualitites:
When Sun is rising from the sea in the east he comes through a hole and therefore avoids coming in contact with the lethal sea water. But he cannot be dry because that comes later. The law of opposites demands he should be wet. Young people are flexible, but an old person will not bend (because he is dry). Thus we can 'read' that Rogo in Eb7-1 should represent the 'morning' stage, because in Eb7-8 toa says it is 'evening':
At noon, when Sun has reached manhood, he is strong. Moving from a.m. to p.m. is like going through a door, he must be reborn at noon, he must go through an initiation, his old self must be ritually 'killed':
The weakling in him must leave, which can explain the unusual manu rere in Eb7-6, in the central position between 5 and 5. His childhood spirit is rising towards the sky. Sun swithes character at noon. In the 'daylight calendar' on the Tahua tablet the first glyph beyond noon has a sign of toa at top center - it should mean Sun has reached manhood and is now like a warrior (to'a):
26 suggests he has become the Sun King. |
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