Mars has two appearances, one when close by and the other when far away. Could this assymetry be expressed by there being two 'flames' on one side and one only on the other side? Flames are red. And then possibly the slightly more curved left 'Clara knife' is expressing something about the observed curvature of the orbit when Mars is far away?

The middle part could be tôa, warrior. If the phonetic similarity between to'a (sugar cane) and tôa (warrior) was used, then we can read - rebus fashion - a picture of a sugar cane plant (with two branches, one towards the right and the other one towards the left) as warrior (= stranger king).

In the 8th period of the month there is a similar glyph:

Although this glyph obviously belongs to the same character the signs are different. The middle part has no bulge, the flames are not so sharply pointed, they are only two, and they are located symmetrically just above the midpoint.

In Ea8-107 there is a variant without flames: