There is a message embedded in the Brazilian flag:
The simple message: Spica (the single star above the band) is at the opposite side of the equator, as seen from our land. A more subtle message: The stars in our sky are south of the equator and therefore Spica - representing 'buried' - has to be north of the equator. In other words, once upon a time Spica had been observed to be lower down than declination 0°. Therefore this star could not be in the domain of the northern Sky. It had to have an earthly character, it had to represent Mother Earth. Who like her sister the Moon had a pair of faces, Furrow (death, waning) and Frond (life, waxing).
South of the equator Spica had to remain in her role as Mother Earth - it was impossible to change such a fundamental fact. She had to be 'inside' instead of out in the light from the Sun above. Although in fact Spica was located south of the equator (declination 11° S). Though there had been thoughts: ... Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ... In rongorongo times Spica had moved to October 9 (282) and then a new king had to be produced because the old one had been buried. Haka-ariki (to make a king) came 64 days after Spica:
The hanging victims (rau hei) possibly illustrated 3 sacrifices needed in order to strive against the force of gravity (the increasing enthropy), i.e. to make things grow upwards again. ... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before. He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ...
Here Metoro did not use his standard explanation for ihe tau. Instead he said hokohuki. This mysterious word is beginning with hoko - dancing - and indeed apparently there were 3 persons dancing together in order to create a new king. Although 3 could mean many (1, 2, many).
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