1. Strangely Ga1-17 exhibits a hanging maro sign at right in contrast to Ga1-21:
A hanging maro sign probably indicates the limit of a region (area of reign). But the glyph type at left in Ga1-17 returns without a hanging maro in Ga1-21. Why is there no haging maro sign at right in Ga1-21? Obviously there must be another region beyond the end of a region - it should not be the same ruler who returns once again. ... When Captain Cook met his death on Hawaii it was because they thought him to be Lono, and all was well until he upset everything by making a comeback not next new year but already after a few days - a storm had broken a mast of the Resolution and it needed repair. Fate had forced him to return and such a monstrosity could not be tolerated. A native put a knife 'brutally' in his back ... Looking closely at Ga1-21 we can indeed discover a difference:
At bottom left there is a little 'dent' which changes the 'sky dome' sign into the 'cap' part of koti:
The composition evidently involves maitaki with a koti sign at left and a reversed (waning) marama moon at right. A little dot added close to the reversed marama could indicate where in the cycle of time Ga1-21 is located. If, for arguments sake, each of the 3 'halfcircles' at left in maitaki could be interpreted as 180 days (or 180°), then the upper ('cap') sign of koti also ought to stand for 180 days, and 'cap' + 'cup' would together constitute the full cycle of a year. A consequence of this line of reasoning is that those 3 'halfcircles' at left in maitaki should amount to 180 + 180 + 180 = 540 days or 1½ years. And the 'cap' sign at bottom left in Ga1-21 ought to indicate the first halfyear of the previous year, because a single Sun (inhabiting the sky dome) presumably will be followed by his 2 wives (Waxing and Waning Moon). The little dot thus could indicate the time of 'full moon' between Waxing and Waning Moon. A waning moon crescent follows full moon. The pattern for all to see in the 'face' of the moon has been used - I suggest - to create a calendar for the year. However, with Sun as 1 and Moon as 2 the yearly cycle of the year ought to be:
Also the 'Son' of 'Sun', i.e. the new 'fire in the sky' will be a male and therefore should be counted as 1. Waning Moon is shrinking because she has given birth to a little son. Waxing Moon is growing because she is pregnant. A balance with the 2 faces of Moon can be established by incorporating the 'sky component' twice, and by adding together there will then be 4 parts in a year, an idea which possibly was used when locating Ga1-23:
I suggest the single limb of Sun can be observed as an upside down ihe tau to the right of the koti sign (where there is a slight indentation in the moon crescent):
An upside down ihe tau should mean the opposite of ihe tau, i.e. a state of life rather than a state of death. If time runs according to the law of gravitation, then koti + inversed ihe tau should be the last phase of the development:
The new fire in the sky will be born in midwinter but not until he has grown up will he take command: ... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae). They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live ... The arm (lima = rima = 5) is over the midline and corresponds to the sky part of the body, while the legs (va'e) are below the midline and correspond to the 'cup' part of the body. The year has 2 legs but only 1 arm.
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