Still: Water and darkness should belong together. Why - not only on the Sun Door but also (it feels) in the rongorongo calendars of the year - does water start at summer solstice (and not at autumn equinox)?

Is it because in the ancient world water and darkness indeed followed hand in hand as partners from autumn equinox to spring equinox? The time which 'was not', the time outside the agricultural world. A world which had nothing to do with the earth. Therefore it must be a watery world.

The time from winter solstice to summer solstice is 'higher' on the Sun Door, of greater importance. It is the time when things are going the right way, first the sun starts to grow and then the rest of the world follows suit. Growth is important, the rest not.

GD24 is perhaps best understood as the natural path of the sun during the day, starting with 'birth' at the eastern horizon and ending with diving down at the western horizon. Close to the horizon we can see his eye. At other times he is invisible because he is down below or high up and blinding us.

Odysseus spent half his journey between winter solstice and summer solstice, then he speared the eye of Polyfemos:

"For their part they seized the bar of olive wood, that was sharpened at the point, and thrust it into his eye, while I from my place aloft turned it about, as when a man bores a ship's beam with a drill while his fellows below spin it with a strap, which they hold at either end, and the auger runs round continually.

Even so did we seize the fiery-pointed brand and whirled it round in his eye, and the blood flowed about the heated bar. And the breath of the flame singed his eyelids and brows all about, as the ball of the eye burnt away, and the roots thereof crackled in the flame. And as when a smith dips an ax or adze in chill water with a great hissing, when he would temper it -for hereby anon comes the strength of iron - even so did his eye hiss round the stake of olive."