8. The cycle of Sun can alternatively be regarded as 10 + 2 = 12 months, but the cycle can also be measured by number 7. The vaha mea glyphs in E are 7 in number:
The arrangement possibly means there are 64 (= 180 - 116) days of high sky beginning with day number 116. 116 = 4 * 29 and 6 * 29 = 174 days later, at Moon, a 'vaha mea uru' (vaha mea with a broken outline) evidently marks an end:
I have here kept my earlier used asterisks (*) for the ordinal numbers beyond Ea8-4:
The gap beyond Ea8-4 was certainly meant as a Sign, because the ordinal number of Ea8-4 is 260. Then comes a figure 'in the water' (ki te vai) said Metoro. Counting has now given us strength enough to abolish these asterisks in E, they are not needed. The evidence is overwhelming for not counting the open space between position 260 and 261. Ea8-101 certainly is Ea8-5 (a Sun-day) and the 3 'limbs in front' are no longer present. At Ea8-4 Metoro said ko te rima, although we clearly can imagine the top half of ua (rain):
We can conclude that the 3 top 'fingers' of ua probably are related to those in Ga2-25--26:
A comparison between the pair Ea8-5--6 and tagata rima aueue in Ga1-29 leads to a guess that the head which in Ea8-5 has been severed is described in the following Ea8-6 and in addition there are 2 other 'limbs' lost (possibly represented by the open 'beak' in Ea8-6):
The right arm in Ea8-5 has changed into a wing and wings are drawn like the inverted thumb of rima:
The other 3 fingers of rima are drawn like strings (presumably an adjunct for 'night'). But the 3 'limbs' lost in Ea8-5 are not drawn like strings:
Presumably the body above the navel represents 'land' and the part below 'sea'. Ea8-5 is 'in the sea' (beyond day number 260).
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