7. The fishing grounds (hakanonoga) are places where fishes are congregating to be drawn up from the sea, which in Polynesian mythology could mean where 'celestial persons' are moving up from the Underworld (È) to the sky above (Ç), i.e. the fishing grounds are like places of birth. Fishing grounds are similar to bays of anchorage (haga) which are places where a long voyage on the surface of the sea is ending, another location for changing habitat:
But the end of something is the beginning of something else, and therefore a bay of anchorage is implicitly also a place of birth: ... After Hotu's canoe had anchoraged, the child of Vakai and Hotu appeared. It was Tuu Maheke, son of Hotu, a boy. After the canoe of Ava Rei Pua had also arrived and anchoraged, the child of Ava Rei Pua was born. It was a girl named Ava Rei Pua Poki ... When a canoe (miro) - which is made of wood (miro) - comes ashore it is like coming home, because trees do not grow on the surface of the sea, they grow on land, the habitat of Tane. There are fishes drawn up in Ga1-8 and Ga1-10, which possibly means 'celestial births':
The 'fish-lines' are not 'bands of light' but 'strings', which signify night. The figures at left in Ga1-7 and Ga1-9 are variants of my glyph type tagata rere:
Tagata rere glyphs probably indicate a place of standstill (these persons are looking at us instead of ahead). And, indeed, when a canoe has reached shore its movement has stopped. There is no fishing done from the canoe once it has been drawn up on the beach. Metoro was not very consistent when he said tagata rere at this kind of glyph, and we therefore should not try to draw any firm conclusions from his choice of words. But anyhow we ought to consider this pair together:
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