The figure between puo (the manzil 'π day') and the rising kahi seems to separate an empty void in the past from an element in front which has the sign of mea ke (something else):
... In the beginning were Rangi and Papa, Sky and Earth. Darkness existed. Rangi adhered over Papa his wife. Man was not. A person arose, a spirit who had no origin; his name was Rangitokona, the Heaven-propper. He went to Rangi and Papa, bid them go apart, but they would not. Therefore Rangitokona separated Rangi and Papa, he thrust the sky above. He thrust him with his pillars ten in number end to end; they reached up to the Fixed-place-of-the-Heavens. After this separation Rangi lamented for his wife: and his tears are the dew and the rain which ever fall on her. Sky and Earth are separating after spring equinox (be it in March or in September), and the figure in Ca1-6 is structurally the same as that standing at southern spring equinox in Tiahuanaco:  This 'god' has 3-fingered hands, probably because 3 * 59 = 177 and 2 * 177 = 354 (= 12 * 29½). But his thumbs are different (mea ke) and oriented in the opposite direction. However, we can count also them as 59 nights each, because 354 + 2 * 59 = 472 (= 16 * 29½). In his left hand he has a staff corresponding to the Y of the rising kahi. His right hand is holding the staff of Sun. Perhaps the central figure is not Sun at all but the Sky Raiser. ... A person arose, a spirit who had no origin; his name was Rangitokona, the Heaven-propper. According to Metoro the central figure is a gentleman, a person worthy of respect (tagata honui):
In Ca1-6 the mea ke sign in front is the opposite of the daytime staff of Sun, either it means it is too early or it means we should use the perspective from south of the equator, where March is a month in autumn. Mea ke is perharps equivalent to memea, which could be short for mea-mea - not red (not ready, only half cooked, kikiu). ... Memea stands in the earth-world - // Memea stands also in the sky. The honui figure could personify the 'birth hole' through which both rain ('tears') and Sun can emerge:
The combination of rain and Sun makes a rainbow, hanuanua meamea, and the double nua (blanket) becomes 'no blanket' (of winter): "... The Katawihi distinguish two rainbows: Mawali in the west, and Tini in the east. Tini and Mawali were twin brothers who brought about the flood that inundated the whole world and killed all living people, except two young girls whom they saved to be their companions. It is not advisable to look either of them straight in the eye: to look at Mawali is to become flabby, lazy, and unlucky at hunting and fishing; to look at Tini makes a man so clumsy that he cannot go any distance without stumbling and lacerating his feet against all obstacles in his path, or pick up a sharp instrument without cutting himself ... ... The Mura also believed that there were two rainbows, an 'upper' and a 'lower' ... Similarly, the Tucuna differentiated between the eastern and the western rainbows and believed them both to be subaquatic demons, the masters of fish and potter's clay respectively ... ... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural disasters. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ..." (Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked. Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 1.) The Babylonian zodiac has Rainbow close to the mouth of the Anunitum fish and the Swallow probably represents the returning breath of life (manu rere) urgently needed for the watery Field:
The pointed head gear of Great One is joined to Swallow and he stands on Fish to illustrate he has subdued the winter enemy. With his hands he controls the flow of water. Presumably the structural similarity between Great One and the figure in Ca1-6 means the previous 'year' is conquered in March 27. The glyph type honui corresponds to the Great One. But the hole carried by honui in Ca1-6 is not a perfect circle, thus not an emblem of Sun, not a hole for Sun. |
