up earlier page more table of contents home
 
On Easter Island, I suggest, the picture was completely reversed. First we can envision the rather common glyph type composition with kiore at left turned 90º to the right in order to better appreciate what I mean:
 
 
 
Nut has straight legs, stretching herself, while kiore has his legs differently posed, as if crouching and intent on making a quick jump ahead.
 
Also the elbows of Nut are drawn to increase the space below her, whereas kiore has his elbows in the opposite direction, resulting in a lower arch.
 
Kiore is looking ahead, but Nut is looking down. But in his proper orientation kiore will be looking up:

My example is from the Keiti text, where the reversal pointed out by Metoro probably refers to the position of Eb4-1 (which is 107 + 1 counted from the beginning of side b):
 
Eb3-32 Eb3-33 Eb3-34
te maitaki te tagata moko te henua
Eb3-35 Eb3-36 Eb3-37
te maitaki tagata moko te henua
Here Metoro suddenly changed to read from right to left in the type of glyph represented by Eb4-1
Eb3-38 (107) Eb4-1
Te maitaki te henua - te kiore

In Egypt the composition for the night had 3 components:

Nut the skygoddess ¯
Shu the god of air
Geb the god of earth

If the reversal on Easter Island should be complete we can expect the Easter Island pattern to be:

Kiore ? Henua
the god of sky ? the earth goddess
®

The central person should be a goddess with characteristics opposite to those of air.