There are 3 'teardrops' hanging down below the eye opening in Cb2-6:
I have turned the picture around a quarter to the left (withershins) in order to make it more clear. At top could be the sky roof which in May had been uplifted to let in air, birds, and light (together with Father Light, Jus Piter, Jupiter). At bottom could then be the domain of fishes, together with Saturn (the tanist of the Sun eye - his 'smoking mirror', alias Dripping Water, Hawaiian Makulu). ... But the time of his predestined defeat by the dark brother, Tezcatlipoca, was ever approaching, and, knowing perfectly the rhythm of his own destiny, Quetzalcoatl would make no move to stay it. Tezcatlipoca, therefore, said to his attendants, 'We shall give him a drink to dull his reason and show him his own face in a mirror; then, surely, he will be lost'. And he said to the servants of the good king, 'Go tell your master that I have come to show him his own flesh!' But when the message was brought to Quetzalcoatl, the aging monarch said, 'What does he call my own flesh? Go and ask!' And when the other was admitted to his presence: 'What is this, my flesh, that you would show me?' Tezcatlipoca answered, 'My Lord and Priest, look now at your flesh; know yourself; see yourself as you are seen by others!' And he presented the mirror. Whereupon, seeing his own face in that mirror, Quetzalcoatl immediately cried out, 'How is it possible that my subjects should look upon me without fright? Well might they flee from before me. For how can a man remain among them when he is filled as I am with foul sores, his old face wrinkled and of an aspect so loathsome? I shall be seen no more, I shall no longer terrify my people'. Presented the drink to quaff, he refused it, saying that he was ill; but urged to taste it from the tip of his finger, he did so and was immediately overpowered by its magic. He lifted the bowl and was drunk. He sent for Quetzalpetlatl, his sister, who dwelt on the Mountain Nonoalco. She came, and her brother gave her the bowl, so that she too was drunk. And with all reason forgotten, the two that night neither said prayers nor went to the bath, but sank asleep together on the floor ... In between the air (birds) and the water (fishes) was Mother Earth, with 'trees' - representing her vegetation which was the base for all land based creatures - growing by cause of the combined forces of rain, light, and a fertile soil. ... Ta'aroa sat in his heaven above the earth and conjured forth gods with his words. When he shook off his red and yellow feathers they drifted down and became trees ... On Hawaii November was a month in late autumn, but on Easter Island they could see the Pleiades close to the Full Moon as a sign of summer having arrived, of life having spread out on the 'mat' (tukuga) of Mother Earth:
... Each drum had a sound of its own, and so each family had its own language, which is the reason why there are different languages today. The first two families, settled in the south, spoke two dialects of Toro, not very different from each other; the third family spoke Mendéli; the fourth spoke Sanga; the fifth another form of Toro; the sixth Bamba; and the seventh Iréli. Lastly the eighth family was given a language which is understood in all parts of the cliff. Just as the eighth drum dominates all the others, so the eighth language is understood everywhere. It was thus that men were given the third Word, final, complete and multiform to suit the new age. It was closely associated, like the first and second Words, and even more than they, with material objects. At this point an odd reflection occured to the European. The first imperfect Word was associated with a technical process, simple in character and no doubt the most archaic of all processes, which had produced the most primitive form of clothing made of fibre. The fibre, which was neither knotted nor woven, flowed in a wavy line, and might be said therefore to be of one dimension. The second Word, less restricted than the first, arose from weaving, done on a wide warp crossed by vertical threads forming a surface, that is to say, having two dimensions. The third Word, clear and perfect in character, took shape in a cylinder with a strip of copper winding through it, that is to say, in a three-dimensional figure. These three technical processes (as he further remarked) all proceeded by following a line, either undulating or zig-zag, and each was characterized by three distinct features: humidity of the fibres, ensuring the freshness necessary for procreation; light for the weaving, that being a daylight process, prohibited at night on pain of blindness; sonority of the drum. There was also a development, from the material point of view, from trimmed bark to cotton thread, and from thread to leather strips and to a copper band ... Perhaps the stone 'boat' from Easter Island below has 3 'raindrops' under its 'equator', with a hungry mouth in front above (i nika) and close to the Sun eye. All celestial beings rising at the horizon in the east could be seen to emerge from the sea and therefore they had to be fishes of some kind.
There is a square door opening in the center of this stone fish and it could represent the 'door' above the equatorial belt, through which air and 'fire' (the Sun) entered (was reborn), at a time defined from when the hourglass was inverted early in the year.
After his arrival (in day 80 according to the Gregorian calendar) the Sun was moving down from a place high up in the northeast towards a final somewhere down in the southwest. But when he reached his maximum at midsummer he had to turn around and therefore, instead of seeing his 'loathsome old face', clouds of rain would cover the sight. It was like the time of a new moon (•), and day 161 (June 10) began the month of Jupiter which ended at the onset of the rainy season:
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour.
At the time when Hamal rose with the Sun at 0h, 30 precessional days before the time of rongorongo, Alcyone (the Queen of Sailing) would have been in day 80 + (56 - 30) = 106. But the equinox should at that ancient time have been at day 84 instead of day 80, i.e. 84 + (52 - 26) = 110 (April 20) = day 11 + 110 = 121 (= 11 * 11) counted from the solstice. I think we will understand better if we primarily will count from cardinal points rather than from calendar points. The tresses on the back side of Pacha-mama (Mother Earth) carries an assymmetry equal to 214 - 182 = 32 nights, but due to the precession from the time of the creation of this magnificent statue its assymetrical 32 nights could hardly have represented the number of days counted on Hawaii from the return to visibility of the Pleiades to the northern winter solstice.
The back side of the C tablet had Cb2-14 where day zero was on the front side of the G tablet, i.e. where the Chinese whispered 'Fox' in order to convey the true meaning - i.e. look in the night sky for a line of measurement from one great star hanging below (a 'Heart') to another above.
The Crow was at the place opposite to that of black Raven (Corvus). Alchita (α Corvi) rose with the Sun in September 20 (*183), i.e. half a year later than 0h and 118 (= 4 * 29½) nights later than Ain in Taurus:
... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...
In Cb2-15 we can see a rising kahi fish, with its open mouth a sign of vaha mea ('red gill' opening) - at the Eye. This was *65 - *55 = 10 days after the 6 stones (Tau-ono) at the final of the previous cycle:
Cb2-14 was thus like day zero and it came 32 (= 214 - 182) days beyond the most expressive glyph in the text:
... They walked in crowds when they arrived at Tulan, and there was no fire. Only those with Tohil had it: this was the tribe whose god was first to generate fire. How it was generated is not clear. Their fire was already burning when Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night first saw it: 'Alas! Fire has not yet become ours. We'll die from the cold', they said. And then Tohil spoke: 'Do not grieve. You will have your own even when the fire you're talking about has been lost', Tohil told them. 'Aren't you a true god! Our sustenance and our support! Our god!' they said when they gave thanks for what Tohil had said. 'Very well, in truth, I am your god: so be it. I am your lord: so be it,' the penitents and sacrificers were told by Tohil. And this was the warming of the tribes. They were pleased by their fire. After that a great downpour began, which cut short the fire of the tribes. And hail fell thickly on all the tribes, and their fires were put out by the hail. Their fires didn't start up again.
So then Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night asked for their fire again: 'Tohil, we'll be finished off by the cold', they told Tohil. 'Well, do not grive', said Tohil. Then he started a fire. He pivoted inside his sandal ...
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