8. In the game of chess the Kings are not agressive types. The function of the King is to avoid 'death' at all costs. But the Queens are tough to deal with and the battle is more fought by them than by their Kings. The King 'dies' when he becomes 'mate'. He is put aside face down and the game is over. Interestingly 'mate' also means to form a permanent relationship with a female partner, to become her 'mate'.

The 'nut' in form of the head of Ku (Tu), or the 'nut' in form of the head of Ulu (Uru) - or the head of some other 'person' in some other myth - could be the idea behind Ca4-2:


Ca4-1	Ca4-2

It looks like a head at the bottom, and from this 'head' things are growing. Another type of 'nut' is depicted in the preceding Ca4-1, and there 2 of the 4 'growing things' are of the same kind as those we have seen in our basic example text:

Eb7-1


Eb7-2	Eb7-3	Eb7-4	Eb7-5	Eb7-6	Eb7-7	Eb7-8


Eb7-9	Eb7-10	Eb7-11	Eb7-12	Eb7-13	Eb7-14	Eb7-15	Eb7-16

But only in Eb7-9 is there depicted a 'tree' which grows directly from the 'nut'. It probably means a new 'life' is beginning at Eb7-9 (viz. the season which corresponds to the 2nd half of these 16 glyphs).

Possibly 7 * 9 = 63 is a number symbolizing the reversal from 36 (meaning the season of growth). Eb7-9--16 could correspond to the 'waning' season, to the season of 'descent'.

In the text of G the idea of a head ('nut') coming down is expressed at the halfway station (472 / 2 = 236 = 8 * 29½):


Gb1-6 (236)	Gb1-7

The Red Queen's command 'Off with his head!' is evidently executed. There a 9 + 9 marks to count around the 'eyebrows' in Gb1-6, and 18 * 10 = 180 is halfway through to 360.

I imagine the spirit of Spring Sun now has to fly quickly in form of manu rere to his 'winter maid' north of the equator, there to be reborn in midwinter:

	1			4
Gb1-4		Gb1-6 (236)	Gb1-7		Gb1-12
3			6

3 'fingers' on each side in Gb1-7 could indicate summer is halfway through.

Above I mentioned 'eyebrows' because I remember the ao face (the phase of high summer):

Nose and eyebrows here form the image of a kind of tree. This tree could be the same as in Eb7-5 and Eb7-7 (because 5 + 5 = 10 and in Gb1-6 there are 9 + 9 = 18). The eyes are gone in Gb1-6, because they are attatched to the head which has come off and which is falling down in Gb1-7.

According to the rules of rongorongo eyes (mata) should be drawn outside the head, as if they were earplugs.