9. This so simple and apparently childish model of the cycle of time is hard to grasp for us. Therefore, once again:
 Above the equator (empty space between my pair of pictures) it is night (ruled by the starstudded female Nut above the feather god Schu, who is reclining between earth and her sky dome). Below the equator it must then be 'daytime' - i.e. summer (because it will be night in the simultaneous diurnal cycle also south of the equator if we understand 'night' as the dark half of the diurnal cycle). Cat (Leo) should be at the top in both pictures and therefore Rat (Aquarius) should be at the bottom in both pictures - there are 6 months between them. People south of the equator have their heads up and feet down like us, but the constellations in the sky seem to have changed their orientations. The Leo constellation is apparently standing on its head. But the constellations are in reality quite stable, it is the people who journey from north to south who gradually will turn around until they will 'stand on their heads'. But the apex of the sky roof will not be at the bottom of their new visual field, it will still be at the top, like the top of the tagata figure:
My arguments lead to tagata personifying Rat, the Sun south of the equator. Moon rules the night (and winter) north of the equator, therefore she must rule summer (and the day) south of the equator.
North of the equator Sun is rising to the left and in the east - if we do not turn our backs to him - and he moves clockwise across the round sky dome to descend at right in the west. South of the equator Sun is rising in the east at right and moves counterclockwise up along the 3-fingered front rafter of his house:
The 4-fingered back side is at left, just as in the rongorongo texts. 3 + 4 = 7 is the path of the day south of the equator, but north of the equator 7 is the number of stars in the Pleiades (not 6 as on Easter Island).
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