The last of these 8 Rain God pictures has another 'monster head' at bottom and this one is looking forward. Probably it is a later stage of the head forming the floor of the cave. The eye of this monster contains the sign of rain clouds, a sign which we have encountered earlier in 4 * 20 = 80 days beyond midsummer:


9 Ch'en	10 Yax	11 Sac	12 Ceh

At the temple of the monster another such rain cloud sign could be there in order to state '2' (we are in the 2nd part of the year). The preceding (7th) figure is upraised on some kind of platform consisting of 2 parts, and the figure wading in the ocean (number 6) should be counted together with the 7th figure because both have their right arms held high as if about to strike down.

This kind of 'hewing' gesture would probably be called ta on Easter Island:

OR. Write, writing. The name of writing before the term rongorongo in 1871 became current.

1. To tattoo ( = tatú), to tattoo pictures on the skin, also: he-tá ite kona, tá-kona. 2. To weave (a net): he-tá i te kupega. 3. To shake something, moving it violently up and down and from one side to the other; he-tá e te tokerau i te maga miro, the wind shakes the branches of the trees; also in the iterative form: e-tá-tá-ana e te tokerau i te tôa, the wind continuously shakes the leaves of the sugarcane. 4. To pull something up suddenly, for instance, an eel just caught, dropping it at once on a stone and killing it: he-tá i te koreha. Tá-tá-vena-vena, ancient witching formula.

1. Of. 2. This, which. 3. Primarily to strike: to sacrifice, to tattoo, to insert, to imprint, to write, to draw, to copy, to design, to color, to paint, to plaster, to note, to inscribe, to record, to describe, number, letter, figure, relation; ta hakatitika, treaty; ta igoa, sign; ta ki, secretary; ta kona, to tattoo; ta vanaga, secretary.

... the root ta through its long series of known combinations carries a strongly featured sense of action that is peripheral, centrifugal, and there seems to be at least a suspicion of the further connotation that the action is exerted downward ... The secondary sense of cutting will easily be seen to be a striking with a specialized implement, and we find this sense stated without recognition of the primal striking sense only in Mangareva, Nukuoro, Viti, and Malekula. In Indonesia this secondary sense is predominant, although Malagasy ta may come somewhat close to the striking idea ...