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The 3 + 1 'feathers' at the 'broken wing' of Aa2-85 presumably indicate that '1' is inside (i.e. in the dark) while '3' is outside (in the light) :

In hau tea the 'roof' is letting in the light from the outside at spring equinox (Aa3-32):

Also - hatch-marks indicating darkness on henua (GD37) are inside.

... Sky (rangi) and Earth (papa) lay in primal embrace, and in the cramped, dark space between them procreated and gave birth to the gods such as Tane, Rongo and Tu. Just as children fought sleep in the stifling darkness of a hare paenga, the gods grew restless between their parents and longed for light and air ... 

At Aa3-39 (spring equinox time) the 3 'feathers' have moved to the back:

Scanning quickly from the beginning of side a I found another occurence of the triple 'feathers', Aa1-87. Possibly these 'feathers' return at the back in Aa1-89:

Aa1-84 Aa1-85 Aa1-86 Aa1-87 Aa1-88 Aa1-89 Aa1-90

Is this not a short description of what later will appear in extenso? We should note that in Aa1-87 the leg is cut short as if to indicate a junction (similar to that in Aa2-85).

The peculiar 'beak'-formed wing in Aa2-85 may in Aa1-87 be suggested by means of a shorter version, similar in position to a thumb (with the 3 'feathers' looking like the rest of the fingers).

In Aa1-89 the triple 'feathers' are located at the back, suggesting the wings of a bird. In between we have Aa1-88 with 'hair' streaming backwards.

A junction may be a conjunction where the ends are fused together (take, teke) or the junction may be a disjunction where the ends are separated (koti, kote - words where the syllables have a reversed order). In Aa1-90 there are 3 'open' ends, which possibly means 3 disjunctions.

The toki (adze), according to this idea, should have a function of fusion - not fission:

"The Araukan Indians in the coastal area of northern Chile, have customs similar to those on the Marquesas and in both areas toki means adze according to José Imbelloni. The Araukans also called their chief of war toki and the ceremonial adze symbolized his function and was exhibited at the outbreak of war. In Polynesia Toki was the name of a chief elevated by the Gods and his sign was the blade of a toki." (Fraser)

The king (ariki) is probably expressed by GD63:

and his function is to fuse together the different parts of his kingdom (the 4 henua forming a cross) so that peace will rule. A big 'stick' is needed for that.

Perhaps the glyphs Aa1-84--90 (which I much earlier formed into a separat unit by no other argument than the visual impact they had on me) should be read as divided into parts like this:

1st group
Aa1-84 Aa1-85 Aa2-80
2nd group
Aa1-86 Aa1-87 Aa2-84 Aa2-85
3rd group
Aa1-88 Aa1-89 Aa1-90 Aa3-2 Aa3-3 Aa3-4

7 glyphs at left in line a1 and 6 glyphs at right in line a2 together makes 13.

The suspected fusion at Aa2-85 is confirmed by the double tails of the bird in Aa2-84.

The suspected triple end is confirmed byt the two maro (at Aa3-2 and Aa3-4) together with the obvious downfall at Aa3-3. The curious form of Aa1-90 presumably alludes to - as I earlier suggested - GD29.

Given that these 13 glyphs in some way represent the lunar months, we surely must infer that in the 2nd group there must be hiding the month Toki:

'Month of the ancient Rapanui calendar. Fedorova according to Fischer.' From where did Fedorova get her informaiton (that there was a month called Toki on Easter Island)? Did she conclude this from the 2nd group above?