The open hand with thumb visible, the toes on the foot at right also visible, and - possibly - the left (from us seen) toes in Hb6-16 being transposed into the head of Eb5-21. Nine together, the fingers + toes, and one thumb (like a cock among hens). It was just a day or two ago when I noticed Eb5-21 in connection with GD23. And at that time I also referred to Ca7-1. Could we in Eb5-21 see a reference to GD31? The 6 'fingers' / 'eyebrows' could be a sign of the coming 6 solar double-months. The 'Janus' concept in GD31 points to takurua at New Year. The two 'faces' would here be Hb6-16 and Hb6-17.

I think we are close to the 'truth' here, the correct 'reading'. I remember that Barthel once suggested that tokurua = 'two staffs' meant the conjunction of sun and moon, a most curious incidence which I need a special page to tell about. As 'moon' is reigning over the 'dark' half and 'sun' over the 'light' half they must meet at the solstices - I am slowly adapting to the view that from summer solstice to winter solstice darkness dominates, the pattern of night and day on a grander scale. (Though then the six double-hours from noon to midnight would correspond to the six months - not double-months - from summer solstice to winter solstice, which feels somewhat strange.)

So takurua might originally have meant just that: Two (rua) 'staffs', i.e. rulers (taku), close together at the 'back' (taku) of the year, when sun is at its slowest (taku). On the threshold (taku-pae) to the new year, announced in ancient Egypt by Sirius (Takurua, Te Pou). (That must be an old custom, because Sirius is earlier than even Orion according to the picture in Van Tilburg. Remarkable that in ancient Egypt - in spite of being located north of the equator - they regarded New Year as arriving in late June and not in late December.)