After the 'eye' has been 'swallowed' there is a sequence of 4 + 4 = 8 glyphs, comparable to how Venus (Makemake) disappears for 8 nights:
Given my interpretation so far we can guess the meaning of the curious figures surrounding henua in number 1033 (H) respectively 1035 (P):
The head of the ariki figure has in H disappeared (been sacrificed). In Pb9-42 there is also a sign of an open mouth (vaha mea) - perhaps the agent of swallowing is presented rather than his victim. Indeed we can see the resulting sign of swelling (pregnancy) in the pair Pb9-44 and Pb10-4 (see below). Then there are 5 more glyphs which complete a period with 13 glyphs:
Arranged like this the manu rere (living spirit) is the important (central) person in the group (the first 3 of which are similar to the concept of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). In H a 'fruit' (hipu) is generated from the dry 'hand' of a standing still Rogo (and his body is also drawn as such a sign). In P the hipu is a continuation of the 'thumb' of mago (Antares?). Then follows (re)birth, hanau. In H the dry season is over and in P the dry season is born, which is visualized by not only a standing still Rogo but also by dry Y-hands. The opposite of Rogo is honu, a sign of movement. In honu glyphs the limbs are drawn as separate elements, which is necessary for movement (life). Perhaps the central element in honu is a variant of hakaua (making rain), and then the next development could be a 'child' (tamaiti):
Where the P text changes from line b9 to b10 there is an interesting variant of manu kake in H:
This extraordinary variant of manu kake (climbing bird) with a nuku (presumably = late autumn) sign in its center could be evidence that the 'climbing bird' type of glyph normally refers to spring time, when Sun is climbing higher and higher in the sky (growing up). In Pb10-1 the high neck probably also serves as an illustration of stretching higher and higher up. In the beginning a plant strives up and up, with nothing much else to show. In P the time could be summer solstice, with the neck of Sun stretching high. There was a manu kake preceding the 'swallowed eye' in the Santiago Staff text:
The 'swallowing agent' which in P occurs 3 times in form of a kind of vaha mea evidently could in H correspond to a 'hungry hand' (rima) which occurs 3 times:
Arms could be signs of spring and legs signs of autumn. There are 3 arms in H and 6 legs in P. It has suddenly dawned on me how to probably read the 4 glyphs in the O text. They could depict cardinal directions:
At the horizon in the west is waiting a fish prepared to swallow. Among the Mayas it was a grasping hand (Chikin) in the west, a sign of 'land':
Therefore it should be a fish mouth south of the equator, a sign of 'sea'. The order is not beginning in the east (Mayan Likin), because looking at the path of Sun (the equatorial belt) from Easter Island you will have west at left and east at right. But time runs from left to right both north and south of the equator. The last (4th and ominous) direction is south (Mayan Nohol). It is not a toga glyph, but perhaps the toga type of glyph is based partially on ihe tau.
Toga is at your back when looking north towards the path of Sun. |
