2. Also we can use the metaphor of an object 'bathing in the rays from the sun', but we would harldy use it in connetion with the moon. And if we would do it, then we would rather say it when we saw a full moon, not when there is no reflection at all coming from her. But the Polynesians of old had another perspective, and apparently they saw in Moon the prime example of the overall mystical phenomenon of life: Birth, growing, and attaining full stature, then followed by waning and death. Life and light became close to synonymous. Before birth there must be a phase of pregnancy. And some 'old calabash' must have been active. His 'living water' must have impregnated Moon. Blood Moon received the saliva of One Hunaphu in her right hand, and then it disappeared, 'it was just a sign'. The empty right hand is a major sign at right in the 1st glyph of our text:
The rongorongo glyphs are mirror pictures, and therefore it is not the left hand which is empty in Eb7-1, it certainly is the right one (which is important to know if we will understand). It is the hand which is the opposite of the left hand and it is also the 'right' hand, not the 'sinister' one - Latin sinister means left. The meaning of the empty hand sign is 'empty', and it refers to the time immediately before the 'old calabash' is active. In Eb7-1 it is the 'emptiness' of Sun ('the old calabash') which is described, it is not the hand of Moon. Sun is 'finished' it means, he has no more time, he has arrived at his end (like Ulu). For young Blood Moon her empty hand instead indicated that she was not pregnant, she was still 'empty'. Signs do not have fixed values, the meaning is dependent on other variables. |
