 We have seen that two uplifted arms with hands bent inwards (kai) might convey a sense of locality, a place for eating, a village (kainga). But here both hands are oriented forward, not inwards. Forward hands could indicate decreasing, the opposite of kai. The Dead Sun seems to exhibit nothing left by way of an empy hand in front. The pair of curved arms here resemble those before daybreak and therefore this could be 'night-break', dusk. 3 + 3 = 6 feather marks ought to indicate the Sun. The 'root' below the left arm might be there in order to point at the direction contrary to the birth place of the Sun in the northeast, viz. south-west (toga). A period of time (henua) associated with the sun (6) has reached its end. Affirmation is given in the following glyph (Aa7-76):
The sign below the hand shows what remained, which was just a little. ... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the rule of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ... 21(0) = 42(0) / 2.
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