When Metoro said tu-Ku ('Kuu-kuu') he probably meant 'elbow' (L-bow) ... A bent branch can symbolize 'change'. The 'curved' was according to the Pythagorean school a 'female' trait: '... Freeman describres the dualistic cosmology of the Pythagorean school (-5th century), embodied in a table of ten pairs of opposites. On one side there was the limited, the odd, the one, the right, the male, the good, motion, light, square and straight. On the other side there was the unlimited, the even, the many, the left, the female, the bad, rest, darkness, oblong and curved ...' From this it should be clear that there is a high probability for 'curved' to also imply 'darkness' in the minds of the Easter Islanders. This is one reason (among others) to interpret 'breaking the shadows' as going from the female night to the male day ... and when he said tuku-ga he could have meant a flat surface spreading out in front like the ecliptic plain (or a red welcoming mat):
... Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky ...
... They all sat down and rested [on the plain of Oromanga], when suddenly they saw that a turtle had reached the shore and had crawled up on the beach. He [Ira] looked at it and said, 'Hey, you! The turtle has come on land!' He said, 'Let's go! Let's go back to the shore.' They all went to pick up the turtle. Ira was the first one to try to lift the turtle - but she didn't move. Then Raparenga said, 'You do not have the necessary ability. Get out of my way so that I can have a try!' Raparenga stepped up and tried to lift the turtle - but Raparenga could not move her. Now you spoke, Kuukuu: 'You don't have the necessary ability, but I shall move this turtle. Get out of my way!' Kuukuu stepped up, picked up the turtle, using all his strength. After he had lifted the turtle a little bit, he pushed her up farther. No sooner had he pushed her up and lifted her completely off the ground when she struck Kuukuu with one fin. She struck downward and broke Kuukuu's spine ...
... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe ... The Chorti diviners used 5 stones, not 6. However, this fact was possibly connected with the Lost Pleiad: ... Merope often is considered the Lost Pleiad, because, having married a mortal, the crafty Sisyphus, she hid her face in shame when she thought of her sisters' alliances with the gods, and realized that she had thrown herself away. She seems, however, to have recovered her equanimity, being now much brighter than some of the others. The name itself signifies 'Mortal' ... Electra, although for at least two or three centuries the title of a clearly visible star, has been regarded as the Lost Pleiad, from the legend that she withdrew her light in sorrow of witnessing the destruction of Ilium, which was founded by her son Dardanos ... or, as Hyginus wrote, left her place to be present at its fall, thence wandering to Mizar as Άλώπηξ, the Fox, the Arabs' Al Suhā, and our Alcor [80 Ursae Majoris]. Ovid called her Atlantis, personifying the family. The Pirt-Kopan-noot tribe of Australia have a legend of a Lost Pleiad, making this the queen of the other six, beloved by their heavenly Crow, our Canopus, and who, carried away by him, never returned to her home ...
Cb2-6 is glyph 422 counted from Ca1-1 and - as I have shown - we ought to reduce this number with 4 days corresponding to the precession since the time of Gregory XIII and with another 4 days because the Pope had moved the cardinal point from Julian equinox (day 84) to 0h (day 80). After performing these operations we can see a Sign referring to Bharani, the place of birth of a new cycle. 422 - 4 - 4 = 414 = 14 * 29½ + 1. The Arabs may have fixed their first 10 stations to be in harmony with the position of Bharani at *41.4 (= 414 / 10):
From the L-bow to the Forearm (at Castor) there were 193 (July 12) - 121 (May 1) = 72 (= 360 / 5) days.
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