... The lapwing is at the end of the 'bird cycle', when the halfyear of Sun and the high sky dome is changing into a halfyear low down ('among the fishes'). The lapwing is a bird who has descended from the sky, landed, and she now has a new generation (her eggs) to protect. Therefore she pretends she has a broken wing ... In ancient Egypt the bird flapping with her wing was rechyt

The outline of this standardized 'letter' was used in more refined cosmic compositions, where rechyt can be recognized by the single wing (drawn as if broken) and by the half-crescent moon at the back of her head:

Rechyt should be oriented as above, and not with her face towards right, I think. The wing feathers are turned downwards as if to hide from Sun and to protect. There are (3 + 7) + 8 = 18 feathers of different sorts and probably they represent 10 * 18 = 180 days ...

Looking anew I can see the half crescent moon at the back of her head is given symmetry by the similar limb - though oppositely oriented - of her wing.

Another symmetry is formed by the 'beard' half crescent, making it possible to perceive the head of rechyt like the handle of an archer's bow.

Perhaps the wing feathers of Rechyt are attatched to a kind of serpent with uplifted head (like a toki ready to strike), which seems to agree with the Mayan picture below, where a serpent head has been placed close to the object between the legs of the solar figure:

The single wing (kara etahi) of Rechyt can therefore be perceived as a Feathered Serpent. A serpent high up is the central figure in the path of Sun:

Before noon the falcon walks ahead carrying Sun above like an egg with a little snake down in front. At noon Sun reaches maturity and the snake no longer is tiny. Then Sun disappears or maybe is changed into rain (the Sun symbol with a pupil).

Before noon there are 3 standing persons, later there are only 2 and they are sitting down. There is an empty seat beneath the flying serpent.

We should remember the battle between Maui and Tuna:

... On came the monsters, came Pupa vae noa, and Poroporo tu a huanga, Toke a kura, and Tuna nui himself - they all came rushing on the land. And Tuna stripped off his loincloth, and he held it up; at once a mighty wave reared up and swept toward that land. Then Huahega shouted to her son, to Maui tikitiki, 'Quick now! Show them yours! Pull it out!'

Did Maui then as Huahega told him, did as his mother said. That wave fell back, the great wave of the monsters soaked away. The bottom of the sea was bare, and all the monsters floundered on the reef, they flapped in pools. And Maui went out, he went with his weapon and he beat them dead, each one ...