1. On one hand our example text is slowly becoming more and more understandable, on the other hand it is becoming more and more complex (however much I try to avoid it):
10 'red cherries' (months) seem to define a quartet of glyphs as
'land':
This 'land' is possibly to be regarded as divided in 2 parts equally long, with 5 months in each part. The invigorating returning 'spirit of breath' (Eb7-6) illustrates the spring half of summer and the dry suger-cane stalk (center of Eb7-8) the autumn half - the 'year in leaf' respectively the 'year in straw'. If we should regard 5 as a symbol for Sun, then his 300 days once could have been 'carried' by 6 months with 50 days in each:
On the other hand the alternative to count by Moon and give each 'cherry' a value of 14 nights, will instead of 2 halves give another type of pattern:
10 lunar months amount to 295 nights, and 126 + 168 = 294. Then follows 'haga niu', a 'harbour' of rest and enjoyment on the sandy beach, the place for generating 'one more'. I have been influenced by the customs at winter solstice on Hawaii: "In the deep night before the image [of Lono] is first seen, there is a Makahiki ceremony called 'splashing-water' (hi'uwai). Kepelino tells of sacred chiefs being carried to the water where the people in their finery are bathing; in the excitement created by the beauty of their attire, 'one person was attracted to another, and the result', says this convert to Catholicism, 'was by no means good'. At dawn, when the people emerged from their amorous sport, there standing on the beach was the image of Lono. White tapa cloth and skins of the ka'upu bird hang from the horizontal bar of the tall crosspiece image. The ka'upu is almost certainly the albatross, a migratory bird that appears in the western Hawaiian chain - the white Lanyon albatross at Ni'ihau Island - to breed and lay eggs in October-November, or the beginning of the Makahiki season." (Islands of History) Another alternative is to put the 'returning life spirit' in a central position, which gives a moure balanced and pregnant pattern. Thereby Eb7-8 will be connected with Eb7-9 instead of with Eb7-7, and I think this could be the correct solution (which I will explain shortly):
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