8. The kuhane of Hau Maka went in the night and therefore Te Kioe Uri could correspond to the beginning of the feathered Schu in the night. Only his left forearm is outside (in the light), and at his left elbow both hands of Nut are positioned:

The hole into the cavern of night (the Rat hole) is the hole in the west through which Sun disappears in the evening. The Mayan sign for west (Chikin) includes a grasping hand (Manik):

 

 

The path of Rat goes contrary to the path of Sun, which is necessary in order to return through the hole in the east. Both Nut and Schu have their feet at left and their heads at right. A curious description by Ogotemmêli throws some light on the situation:

"... The four males and the four females were couples in consequence of their lower, i.e. of their sexual parts. The four males were man and woman, and the four females were woman and man. In the case of the males it was the man, and in the case of the females it was the woman, who played the dominant role. They coupled and became pregnant each in him or herself, and so produced their offspring.

But in the fullness of time an obscure instinct led the eldest of them towards the anthill which had been occupied by the Nummo. He wore on his head a head-dress and to protect him from the sun, the wooden bowl he used for his food. He put his two feet into the opening of the anthill, that is of the earth's womb, and sank in slowly as if for a parturition a tergo.

The whole of him thus entered into the earth, and his head itself disappeared. But he left on the ground, as evidence of his passage into that world, the bowl which had caught on the edges of the opening. All that remained on the anthill was the round wooden bowl, still bearing traces of the food and the finger-prints of its vanished owner, symbol of his body and of his human nature, as, in the animal world, is the skin which a reptile has shed ..." (Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli.)

His cap (the round wooden bowl, the sky roof) was left on the surface like the dry old skin shed by a serpent, when the rest of the eldest male sunk down into the hole in the west with his feet first. Schu represents the day and Nut the night. Where night is ending we will find the head of newborn Schu.

The hole in the east indicates where the day is born, where Moon is ending. Babies are born with head first, which necessitates the rest of the body arriving later, with their feet at the end. Old people depart with their feet first.

However, Moon moves in the opposite direction - with feet at the beginning and with head and forearms at the end. The head of Sun is the first to appear in spring. At that time the position of Sun measured against the horizon in the east must also be his position a few hours earlier in the morning when he still has not reached the horizon. The head of Nut indicates his position late in the night. Therefore Nut ought to personify the path of Sun in the night.