1. GD35 shows an arm - upper arm, forearm and hand. The hand has three fingers + thumb.

The thumb has a very important function. Without thumb not much would be accomplished. Therefore the thumb is similar to a chief, ariki. Posnansky has an explanation for why there are only three toes in images dating from the 3rd and last phase of Tiahuanaco:

"Since in some castes of the Altiplano [they] believed themselves to be descendants of the Waris (Camelidae, vicuña and guanaco)[, though] probably of those gigantic Waris, the remains of which are found in the alluvia (Macrauchenia), it is not strange either to find the tripartite foot in the anthropomorphic figures. Tripartite feet were also had by certain species of Toxodontia which lived on the Altiplano during the Pleistocene and perhaps even later which, in our judgment, are the animals which in tradition gave rise to the 'Wari-Willka'. With the regard to the belief of the Indians that they descended from the Waris, we have the tradition noted by Ph. Guaman Poma in his Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, in which it is related that the first men were the Wari-Wiracocha-runas."

If toes number three, then fingers must certainly also count three (+ thumb), I believe. The idea of Posnansky may be what is needed to explain the phenomenon of three fingers in the glyphs of rongorongo - on Easter Island there were no Waris, but the all-important birds had only three toes. The ancestors were like gods and the gods manifested themselves as birds.

Ha5-52	Ha5-56	Ha6-1	Ha6-2

The fundamental property of a.m. sun is 'growing'.

When in the glyphs for p.m. sun a different hand gesture is seen, where the hand is turned away from the mouth, we of course will draw the conclusion that it means the opposite, i.e. that p.m. sun is shrinking:

Ha6-12	Aa1-30	Pa5-58

There is, however, only one of these glyphs with an outward hand gesture among the glyphs for the phases of p.m. sun. The meaning may therefore be something else than 'shrinking'.

"... The practice of turning down the fingers, contrary to our practice, deserves notice, as perhaps explaining why sometimes savages are reported to be unable to count above four. The European holds up one finger, which he counts, the native counts those that are down and says 'four'. Two fingers held up, the native counting those that are down, calls 'three'; and so on until the white man, holding up five fingers, gives the native none turned down to count. The native is nunplussed, and the enquirer reports that savages can not count above four ..." (Dr. Codrington in Melanesian Languages, p. 222, note 1, as related in Churchill 2)

According to this idea, when we in Aa8-30 are observing a sign like a closed fist quenching the 'fire' (presumably the light of the old year) there may be an additional meaning:

Aa8-26	Aa8-27	Aa8-28	Aa8-29	Aa8-30	Aa8-31

The 5 flames around the 'disc' of the 'fist' is in harmony with a gesture of all five fingers closed (= 5). Here the sun (hetuu) cannot be drawn with the usual 6 flames.

Possibly 10 will be expressed as two closed fists, for instance in the pare glyph Pa3-3:

114		415		493		133
	Pa3-3		Pa10-1		Pb9-33
	115		531		1025
	416 = 16 * 26		494 = 19 * 26		1
	910 = 7 * 13 * 10
1024 = 2 * 2 * .... * 2 (10 times)

The number of glyphs in the P text is 599 (side a) + 559 (side b) = 1158, which can be expressed as 1024 + 1 (Pb9-33) + 133 (7 * 19). Another possibility is 1158 = 35 * 26 + 1 + 247 (13 * 19).

Here the two fists presumably refer to the 10 'months' of the sun, otherwise probably also expressed by 1024 (the number of glyphs from the beginning of the text at Pa1-1 to Pb9-33).