The next natural question then is: 'Where is the ship?' I believe the ship is rei miro (GD13). On the Gateway of the Sun there is also a 'moonshaped pectoral'. The moon stands for the night in a way similar to the way the sun is standing for the day. Sun is male, moon is female. The Chimu kings had broad golden sickle-shaped pendants hanging from their noses, shielding their mouths. Orifices are dangerous. A ship is needed to carry chiefs across the dark waters of the underworld, a ship built of planks or reeds, materials connected with the sun and the male. Woman disintegrates the male tapu, changing the state into noa. And I wonder if it is a coincidence that this word is similar to Noah (= the moon). Covering up the hole is an alternative to building a ship, another way to avoid catastrophe. Is that the explanation of the non-hole variants of GD16 and GD24? |