3. The lifespan of Sun can be defined as 10 months with 30 days in each, 300 days. In Eastern Polynesia there is a Weeping God, and I think he maybe is weeping because he has reached the end of his life span. The close neighbours around lake Titicaca probably shared the same ideas:
In his right hand Sun holds a staff which is becoming light above his hand (at spring equinox) and the staff ends with a half-circle oriented like a 'cap' (Ç) - not as a 'cup' (È). The form of the cap corresponds to that of the sky above, the form of the cup corresponds to what is below - some kind of water container. When Sun reaches maturity (in high summer) he cannot grow any more (omotohi) and the form of his cap is not that of smiling. Smile comes later, with the sorely needed rain. It will be collected and the Y-form in the staff of his left hand says so. Time goes from left bottom up to high summer, then there is a break followed by descent beginning with the Y-form of the staff in his left hand. The eyes of the Sun standing in the 'break' are no longer there, and the marks on his cheeks look like tears. He is dead. There are bird head signs at the bottom of the staffs, which presumably illustrate the flight of his life spirit to his other domain north of the equator. |
