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This subject - lighting of new fire - needs much more than a single page. Although I am far from certain that the glyph
really is about fire drilling ('pivoting in a sandal'), the subject is so important for understanding the 'primitive' cosmos that I must give at least a short introduction. I am convinced that we need this information sooner or later. The fire driller Tohil is the same god as Hunrakán. A tornado looks as if it has a giant leg (or finger) pointing right down to the earth and it swirls with immense power. Consider the roof of the sky, the area around the North Pole. Everything up there moves around a fixed point. The planets, on the other hand, follow their orbits around the sun. For the planets movement is slower with larger distance from the sun, while the circumpolar movement is the opposite: movement is slower and slower with smaller distance from the fixed point (which by extrapolation must be strangely immovable). It is like an umbrella or a cartwheel. The sky evidently is one object and not a background for moving stars. The stars are part of the sky, they are fixed. But around the ecliptic there are freely moving objects (the planets). They must be alive ('persons'), which explains the name 'zodiac', the path of the celestial fauna.
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