These are the 11 last glyphs in line a3:
There are obvious resemblances between Ka1-5 and Ka3-12--13, presumably underlining a common denominator which I assume is the return of life (light):
There are 50 days from Sheratan 14 to Heka 11. According to my preliminary view the rule to add 66 in the K text in order to reach the right ascension day does not to apply to the early glyphs in the text, e.g. is 6 + 66 = 72 (instead of 70). There are only 46 glyphs between Ka1-6 and Ka3-12. What can we expect to occur when the '3 ghosts' have returned to the 'island' with the broken off 'neck' (gao) of the low (rakerake) first king? ... Broken is your neck, oh Oto Uta, oh king! / Floating (?) like a raft (?) out at sea. / To be erected for the drifting huehue (fish) out at sea. / Able (?) to put an end to the flight of the flying fish hahave; / Able (?) to put and end to the flight of the flying fish ngu; / Put an end to this fish, a dorado, with the good face!
The fragment of the stone statue of course was to be raised up as a symbolic gesture, resulting in a general growth all around the island: ... The first of all foreign visitors on Easter Island was the Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen., who approached the island in the evening twilight of Easter Sunday, 1722. As the sun rose above the sea next morning the Dutchmen brought their ships close inshore and observed a mixed crowd of fair-skinned and dark-skinned people who had lit fires before some enormous statues standing in a row. The people ashore were squatting in front of the statues, with their heads bent while they alternatively raised and lowered their arms. When the sun rose they prostrated themselves on the ground facing the sunrise, their fires still flickering before the stone colossi ... Métraux quotes a Rapa Nui legend in which carvers from Hotu Iti (eastern sector) journeyed to the western sector to seek the advice of a master carver. They were perplexed about how to resolve the difficult problem of carving the statue neck. He advised them to seek the answer by viewing their own bodies. They did so, and discovered that the model for the statue neck was the penis (ure). ... The moai as Sky Propper would have elevated Sky and held it separate from Earth, balancing it only upon his sacred head. This action allowed the light to enter the world and made the land fertile. Increasing the height of the statues, as the Rapa Nui clearly did over time, would symbolically increase the space between Sky and Earth, ensuring increased fertility and the greater production of food. The proliferating image, consciously or unconsciously, must have visually (and reassuringly) filled the dangerously empty horizon between sea and land, just as the trees they were so inexorably felling once had. From this perspective we may be able to understand the idea behind the next Chinese moon station:
But the 'Willow Tree' (analogous to the great Moai stone statues on Easter Island) belongs in line a4. The nose of Hydra is marked by δ:
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