"Salm is a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh. He is the oldest son of [the] legendary hero and king Fereydun. It is believed that his name was given to him by his father, after Salm chooses to seek safety and run instead of fighting the dragon that had attacked him and his brothers (the dragon was Fereydun himself who had disguised himself to test his sons) ...

When Fereydun decides to divide his kingdom among his sons, he gives Salm [the timid unmanly one] Anatolia and West [the female side of the kingdom] ...

Fereydūn ... [is] also called Apam Napat, 'Son of the Waters' ..." (Wikipedia)

In the beginning everything is wet, but the son (Sun) is hot and he has the capacity to dry up the earth:

... The three of them had their copal, and this is what they burned as they incensed the direction of the rising sun. They were crying sweetly as they shook their burning copal, the precious copal. After that they cried because they had yet to see and yet to witness the birth of the sun. And then, when the sun came up, the animals, small and great, were happy. They all came up from the rivers and canyons; they waited on all the mountain peaks. Together they looked toward the place where the sun came out.

So then the puma and jaguar cried out, but the first to cry out was a bird, the parrot by name. All the animals were truly happy. The eagle, the white vulture, small birds, great birds spread their wings, and the penitents and sacrificers knelt down. They were overjoyed, together with the penitents and sacrificers of the Tams, the Ilocs. And the Rabinals, Cakchiquels, those of Bird House. And the Sweatbath House, Talk House, Quiba House, those of Yokes House. And the Mexican Sovereigns - however many tribes there may be today. There were countless peoples, but there was just one dawn for all tribes.

And then the face of the earth was dried out by the sun. The sun was like a person when he revealed himself. His face was hot, so he dried out the face of the earth. Before the sun came up it was soggy, and the face of the earth was muddy before the sun came up. And when the sun had risen just a short distance he was like a person, and his heat was unbearable.

Since he revealed himself only when he was born, it is only his reflection that now remains. As they put it in the ancient text, 'The visible sun is not the real one ... '

Often in the mornings the air is fresh and clear and it is possible to see far, but later in the day the air becomes hazy impairing visibility, such is my experience. To look in a bronze mirror, I suppose, would be inferior to look directly at the real object.

Heat generates steam which contains water and later it will descend again in the form of rain. Thus Sun delivers both heat and rain.

In contrast to the wet station of Pegasus there should come a dry station later on and it could be the small square of Orion. To illustrate it the rongorongo system may have used the cross-bars at the top of a well:

... τ, 4.5, with ν, was Al Sufi's Sa'd al Na'amah, which Knobel thinks should be Al Na'āim, the Cross-bars over a well ...


hipu	*hahe*

Bars are made of wood, and therefore it is possible to also consider them fit for making fire. And a cross can like a pair of diameters define the corners of a square.

The 'person' rising from this cross (in atariki) is not separate from the wooden bars. But maybe the wood is of a kind which allows fire inside (there are no dark lines across):

... When the waters reached her tikitiki, or the topknot of her head, the last seeds of fire fled from it to the rata , the hinau, the kahikatea, the rimu, and certain other trees. These trees would not admit them, and so they went to the mahoe, the totara, the patete, the pukatea, and the kaikomako, where they were cherished. These are the trees from whose dry wood fire can be obtained by friction. The others are of no use for this purpose ...

I am reminded of the cross-bars at the beginning of the Mayan sequence of months:


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