Metoro was evidently attempting to deliver information by way of how often and where he used certain expressions. Next such example is how he mentioned oho at Ga6-17--18, possibly in combination with his ki te marama at Ca6-17 and Ca6-19:
The word oho (goes away) was then used next at the beginning of periods 6-7:
Tagata oho rima could possibly refer to Sun because tagata oho marama - used on the other side of the full moon glyph - was mentioned twice (and therefore perhaps alluding to Moon, who has 2 faces). Given this idea we can indeed find signs of contrast between Ga6-17 and the pair Ca8-4 / Ca8-11, a single glyph of light contra twin glyphs in shadows. However, although 4 and 11 are Saturn numbers, 17 refers not to Sun but to Venus. I guess the time of Sun is in the past and the light in the sky therefore should refer to the female hand (rima) of Venus. If so, it could be a young Venus because her wing at left in Ca6-17 is not yet fully grown. A single young Venus glyph could perhaps be contrasted with a pair of old Saturn glyphs. Though the crescent-formed object at right in Ca8-4 is small in contrast to the fully grown a week later. Instead of ki te marama primarily meaning fiat lux our reading should rather be 'to (the side of) Moon'. There was a tribe occupying a district named Marama at the opposite end of the island compared to Poike:
(Map copied from Van Tilburg, Easter Island. Archeology, Ecology and Culture.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
