1. The 3rd Tahitian pillar was Ana-roto, Spica:
Line Ga3 is definitely the beginning of something else than what came earlier, and we can from the distribution of henua signs guess that line a2 is similar to the 29th black night of Moon beyond which a new Moon will emerge:
The 24 glyphs in line a3 can be changed into 27 by adding the last 3 glyphs from line a2, which should remind us of the relationships between Oromanga, Papa O Pea and Ahu Akapu:
The birthplace of a new king (24) is in harmony with what we can read in Ga3-2, where the appearance of the beginning of the new henua ('land') seems to be illustrated:
The abdicated old king (27) now becomes number 2 in importance but his spirit inhabits line a3 (moe in Ga3-2 has an open outline). And line a2 will represent Papa O Pea (29 - 3 = 26) because she is 'the residence' for the future king, she will give birth to him in line a3, so my imagination tells me. I suggest line Ga2 is female in character, like the rear end of a canoe: "It is an interesting fact, although one little commented upon, that myths involving a canoe journey, whether they originate from the Athapaskan and north-western Salish, the Iroquois and north-eastern Algonquin, or the Amazonian tribes, are very explicit about the respective places allocated to passengers. In the case of maritime, lake-dwelling or river-dwelling tribes, the fact can be explained, in the first instance, by the importance they attach to anything connected with navigation: 'Literally and symbolically,' notes Goldman ... referring to the Cubeo of the Uaupés basin, 'the river is a binding thread for the people. It is a source of emergence and the path along which the ancestors had travelled. It contains in its place names genealogical as well as mythological references, the latter at the petroglyphs in particular.' A little further on ... the same observer adds: 'The most important position in the canoe are those of stroke and steersman. A woman travelling with men always steers, because that is the lighter work. She may even nurse her child while steering ... On a long journey the prowsman or stroke is always the strongest man, while a woman, or the weakest or oldest man is at the helm ..." (Claude Lévi-Strauss The Origin of Table Manners. Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 3.) |
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