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2. To read pictures necessarily involves using your imagination (the faculty of processing images stored in memory). Much of what I am writing is therefore uncertain, indeed this is unavoidable when reading image texts. Such texts must be ambivalent in meaning. They cannot have a definite and final interpretation. My imagination leads me ahead and what emerges can then be studied and evaluated. That is how my method is working. The irritated Hercules who maybe had lost a toe (not very alarming compared to what anciently was his fate at midsummer, cfr at Kai Viri) stamped on the Crab. Maybe he had lost his 'toe' when he was 'pivoting in his sandal'. ... It [Cancer] is the most inconspicious figure in the zodiac, and mythology apologizes for its being there by the story that when the Crab was crushed by Hercules, for pinching his toes during his contest with the Hydra in the marsh of Lerna, Juno exalted it to the sky ... The force of Hercules made the Crab flat, it seems. This happened in the region where water and earth had been mixed together into a marsh. And mud was an important element in the story of Flounder and Lobster. The Cancer constellation should therefore be at the border (the 'hem') between 'sea' and 'land'. This is where new life will see the daylight: ... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ... Hercules may have lost a 'toe', Kui was lost at sea, and also the Lobster lost - and become irritated. Therefore he smashed the Flounder flat: ... Lobster was so angry at being beaten that he stamped on the fish and smashed him flat. Cried Flounder; 'Now I've got one eye in the mud!' Therefore Lobster gouged it out for him and roughly stuck it back on top. This is the reason why men tread on the Flounder, but can always see the Lobster's feelers outside his hole. The mud flats at low tide could be a description of the location of the Cancer region. When Lobster roughly moved the eye in the mud up to the top of Flounder it was like changing 1 into 2. The allusion could be that he made Flounder pregnant.
Manu kake in Ga3-1 could announce both the end (Al Tarf) of the old generation and the beginning of a new generation (maybe stretching for 240 days to day number 365). ... Man is demi-god: he always has either one foot or the other in the grave; woman is divine because she can keep both her feet always in the same place, whether in the sky, in the underworld, or on this earth ... Man cannot be both Father and Son at the same time: ... The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator ... Instead of a single blazing Sun there will now be 2 persons, Mother and Child, which together will show that life moves on. Once again 'land' (daylight) will return, rise up from the 'water'. Ebb and flood normally changes twice in a day and therefore it is not strange if this pattern governs also the year - the proof being in the formula 2 * πr. The word kake encompasses most of these multiple meanings:
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