1. Once again, there is no fishing ground named Hanga Hoonu mentioned on page 80 of Manuscript E:
Maybe the reason is that the canoe of the old Sun King (Hotu Matu'a) here reaches shore at winter solstice. It is a point of 'anchorage' (haga) on land and it cannot simultaneousely be a fishing ground at sea. The right part of Ga1-23 evidently indicates 'absence of rule' (interregnum between one ruler and the next). The left part of the glyph is like a 'fist' at top which evolves into a haga rave sign. If it illustrates the path of the Sun King, then it could show how he has disappeared into the 'sancturary of the wolf-god' (cfr Eb6-1):
But this variant of haga rave (with a 'fist' high at left) deserves a glyph type of its own. Another such sign is at left in Ab6-42, and here the opposite sign at right demonstrates how spring (the season of 'eating') has arrived, i.e. the Sun King has emerged again from the 'sanctuary':
The head with open mouth at right is in contrast to the skull at left, which probably represents the season of 'off-spring' (autumn). The henua sign in the center is no longer invisible, the 'king of the land' is present. From a very low position Sun is stretching his neck high again. Thus the 'non-eating' Sun head at left should represent an even higher position, i.e. midsummer when Sun has 'eaten enough'. This is where the cycle of Sun is beginning. And the central henua in Ab6-42 is not a raaraa sign, it is the beginning of spring:
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