Metoro said henua sometimes at GD14 and if he is correct in that appellation, then the sitting person in the middle holds one henua in each hand. Number 4 is written both in his left and in his right 'henua'. Moreover, his arms may perhaps also be read as henua. His arms are not symmetric, and if his arms signify henua, then one arm (his left presumably) is 'dark' and the other 'light'. His right arm (left from us seen) is indeed longer than his left arm.

Not once in my Index is GD14 mentioned before we arrive here (at 5a5). I go down to level 2, take a quick look at week, month and year - but no. Neither on level 1 nor on level 2 are there any examples of glyphs belonging to GD14. No, stop - I found one, in the last period of the year. (Where else one may ask, when we are at the time of death and rebirth?)

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The old year is dead and its soul is flying away (first column of glyphs) and the last three solar double-months (with winter solstice toki te ragi) are waving goodbye (third and second columns from right). What might be the meaning of the glyphs in the third glyph column (from left)? In G (top) the GD14-glyph is enveloped so we cannot see it. Notice that the mid-straw of the GD14-glyphs are leaning somewhat. At midwinter the rays of the sun are not arriving from straight up.

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