5. Women work with threads which is in contrast to the wooden carpentry of the men. The path of Sun is depicted, it seems, by a broad board and not by a thread-thin line:
Kaikai means string games and such were mainly for women and children:
"The late Amelia Tepano Ika was a beloved link with the past, a much sought-after teacher of the art of kaikai, string figures made and presented with accompanying chants." (Van Tilburg, a.a.) "The kaikai are the rythmic songs that are sung to cat's cradles, the string games that are found not only throughout the Pacific but throughout the world. On premissionary Rapa Nui the kaikai, together with their corresponding cat's cradles, were not simple children's games but were used, among other things, to produce magic effect. They were highly important for the study of Rapa Nui's rongorongo. This is because it was apparently with the aid of cat's cradles that the rongorongo experts taught their pupils to learn many of the chants accompanying the incised inscriptions." (Fischer, a.a.) When in winter Sun was north of the equator he was absent on Easter Island:
The beginning of autumn north of the equator coincides with the beginning of spring on Easter Island, but I do not wish to suggest Eb7-9 stands at spring equinox. Such is not the case, it is rather autumn equinox. This presents an enigma. Maybe the solution is to understand Eb7-9 as indicating autumn equinox as observed in nighttime.
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