In ancient Egypt there was a pair of birds standing in the east and in the west, where Sun rose and descended:  However, their headgears above suggest the orientation was north-east respectively south-west, because Upper Egypt was symbolized by a very high headgear and Lower Egypt by a lower type of headgear. In the picture the Horus falcon (the newborn little rising sun) could be the head of the figure at left while the head of the figure at right could illustrate the Vulture in the north-west. In north-west Sun was descending and in south-east he was rising. In Egypt everything was upside down compared to Polynesia. The Vulture was there at the horizon in the west, I imagine, for 'devouring' (as in the Mayan grasping hand Chikin) the 'dead person', an idea not far from the Eagle taking Etana in his claws. Etana's problem was that he could not have a child: ... Etana was desperate to have a child, until one day he helped save an eagle from starving, who then took him up into the sky to find the plant of birth. This led to the birth of his son, Balih ... In winter nature is dead and there cannot be a new generation. The position of Etana was not in spring but in autumn, after the Sting of the Scorpion, and therefore he could not have a child. Feathers can illustrate Air, i.e. what in summer is between the Sky roof and the surface of the Earth. There is open space in summer but not in winter, when instead Sky and Earth are lying 'in close embrace'. Perhaps once the days were counted only for the 10 summer months: ... Whare-patari, who is credited with introducing the year of twelve months into New Zealand, had a staff with twelve notches on it. He went on a visit to some people called Rua-roa (Long pit) who were famous round about for their extensive knowledge. They inquired of Whare how many months the year had according to his reckoning. He showed them the staff with its twelve notches, one for each month. They replied: 'We are in error since we have but ten months. Are we wrong in lifting our crop of kumara (sweet potato) in the eighth month?' Whare-patari answered: 'You are wrong. Leave them until the tenth month. Know you not that there are two odd feathers in a bird's tail? Likewise there are two odd months in the year.'
Metoro's kua vaha at Cb4-20 could refer to the openings between the 'fingers' in the glyph, i.e. vaha rima. There are 2 such openings, defined by 3 'fingers'. These curves are probably meant to illustrate fingers, so much we can see in the development from Ga2-24 to Ga2-26. The glyph type ua (rain) could then illustrate a double set of such 'fingers', and ua could be the negation of (the opposite to) a single set:
The upper set of curves are here joined to a bottom set and possibly the upper set illustrates the Sky and the bottom set the Earth. The meaning could be 'not summer' = 'close embrace' (winter). ... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day ... The 'claw' (bottom part of Cb4-20 and Ga2-26) could in consequence illustrate Air, which together with the Sky surrounds the Earth. In high summer when Sky is high up there is much Air (which contains water vapour). In winter the rain kept Sky and Earth together. ... 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 ... Light (or sweet rain water, vai ora) could enter from above, from the vaha rima in the Sky roof. And the arrangement of vaha rima in Ga2-25--26 is 3 + 1 which could indicate the 2 + 2 'quarters' of Sun (with a bad unlucky final quarter). South of the equator July 19 (200) corresponds to day 200 - 172 = 28 (4 weeks) after the winter solstice, while the position of Cb4-20 seems to correspond to 25 days after June 21, with 25 as a possible allusion to Saturn's capacity to generate 'fire' (light / life). The heliacal rising of Naos (ζ Puppis) is according to Hevelius at the front corner of the Venus shield and July 20 is in G the place for a Rei type of glyph:  These 4 glyphs could possibly indicate where, according to the creator of the G text, a new year was beginning, 'rising from the waves':
According to C, though, the new year was possibly occurring 5 days later, because I have located manu kake (the 'climbing bird') to July 28 (instead of July 23):
Metoro said kua kake te manu puoko erua and there are 2 great crescents of light (erua marama) in July 13-14, the pair of days following the culmination of Antares and my suggested 'leap day':
The implication could be that a 'year 2' was beginning in July 13-14. Maybe it was Moon who ruled from the June solstice (when Sun 'died'). Moon has 2 'faces' (waxing and waning). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
