7. From the thumb of an empty hand of a fully grown man a string leads down to a fish:
The sign is a variant of hua, i.e. it probably indicates how a new generation is created. The string (instead of the broader 'path' in my hua example) says the 'fruit' at the end is a creature of the night. The rising fish could refer to Moon. If it is meant to represent Moon, then it should be Waxing Moon, not Waning Moon, because according to the conventions of rongorongo Waning Moon was probably depicted as a sinking fish, at least such was the case in the moon calendar of Mamari:
Ca7-1 is a very special glyph, but otherwise we can see 3 rising fishes and 4 descending ones. 3 + 4 = 7 equals the number of planets in a week, but Moon is counted as 4 + 4 = 8. |
