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It may be so that the ancient Egyptians ideas and hieroglypic pictures have nothing whatsoever to do with the ideas expressed in the rongorongo texts. But that does not matter - they anyhow function as a kind of catalyst for me, quickening my creative thoughts.

The 'executive' of the king (or Pharaoh, or sungod) has other talents than the king (Pharaoh, sungod) himself. Executives are prone to quick, forceful and merciless action, whereas a king should behave more kingly. Executives have knives, kings don't need them.

"Eine seit der 1. Dynastie belegte, tiergestaltige Schutzgöttin. Sie [Mafdet] wird mit einem katzen- oder mungoartigem Tier gleichgesetzt, dessen genaue zoologische Einordnung Probleme bereitet. Eventuell handelt es sich hierbei um ein Ichneumon, oder ein Ozelot. Sie scheint ... eine gezähmte Großkatze gewesen sein, die den König begleitete. Der Name wird übersetzt als: die Kletterin, Läuferin oder Freßlerin (?) ...

... Die Frühzeit verbindet Mafdet mit Seschat, für beide wird am selben Tag Geburtstag gefeiert. Beide werden auch als 'Zwillinge' angesprochen. Mafdet  hat in der Frühzeit eine wesentliche Rolle: die Rolle von Isis, der Mutter und Gemahlin des regierenden Königs. Sie ist 'Herrin des Lebenshauses' und schützt alle 'Versorgungsinstanzen' des Hofes. In dieser Eigenschaft bekommt der König das wAs-Szepter überreicht, das Symbol der Macht." (Ägyptologie Forum)

"Sie [Seschat] ist die Göttin der Schreibkunst, als Symbol trägt sie eine Palmrinde auf dem Kopf. Sie ist an ihrem Schreibzeug in den Händen zu erkennen, man findet sie auf Abbildungen von Szenen der Krönungsfeierlichkeiten." (Ägyptologie Forum)

"The Egyptian mongoose ranges anywhere from 19 to 23 inches in height. Adults weigh 4 to 7 lbs.

Its tail is 13 to 21 inches long and is very bushy with a black ring at the very end. Egyptian mongooses have long hair. Their coat is usually gray with brown dots. Their coat is sometimes a reddish brown with yellow dots but this is unusual.

Egyptian mongooses have a slender, low-slung body. Their heads appear to be pointed due to the shape of their snout. The animal's ears are rounded and don't project over the head due to their small size.

The eyes are surrounded by a naked strip of skin. Egyptian mongooses have five finger-like claws on each short limb. The animal' s hind feet are furless. Their front claws are curved and sharp for digging in the earth. They have 35 to 40 teeth that have evolved for tearing flesh apart." (Internet)

Metoro seems to have known the rongorongo texts fairly well and it is noticeable that he sometimes used that general knowledge when telling Bishop Jaussen about the concrete glyphs he saw. Therefore it is important to use every parallel sequence of glyphs when trying to understand his words. One example of this is his maro at Aa1-11:

 

The interpretation of raised arms in H/P/Q as meaning the ickle of waning moon and ihe as meaning ½ such a sickle is not being contradicted by the parallel glyphs in A.

In Aa1-10 the sickle of waning moon is explicitly shown hanging below the elbow. That and the en face appearance (in contrast to the head in Aa1-9) indicates that there is a point of maximum and turnover at Aa1-10.

In Q we find a waning moon sickle in the 1st glyph, but no en face head. In P two identical glyphs appear (at left), with no 'elbow ornament'. In H we may also presume two en face heads, from which we may draw the conclusion that neither H, P nor Q makes any clear distinction between the 1st and 2nd glyphs. The first two glyphs is one group, the last two glyphs another.

In Tahua the picture is different: each one of the 4 glyphs are separately designed. Though we can anyhow see that the first two glyphs constitute one group and the last two another.

In H there is a distinction between the 1st and 2nd glyphs because the elbow ornaments are different: henua in the 1st glyph and an oval (maybe indicating that the end - zero point - is reached) in the 2nd glyph.

Even though the sickle of waning moon seems to be used as a sign of the structure - by establishing two (downwards) turnover points (between the 4th and 5th respective between the 6th and 7th glyphs) I believe it is the sun's (r)evolution which is described: 8 is a solar number.

But to 'prove' that 8 is a solar number will take some effort. As a first step I would like to point at Tiahuanaco and the picture of beheading at solstice which we have seen before:

From Egypt we understood that executives are catlike (quick, merciless and forceful), which explains why the man is wearing a cat-cap. This cap is a prolongation of the 3rd and foremost of the three parts in the crown of the big bird. Like in the 3rd and last phase of the moon cycle it is a time of death.

The level is that of the condor's black eye - death and rebirth. Old year (bright double-eye below in the crown) is past and new year (bright double-eye above) is the future.

The general structure of new moon and new year is the same. Such a general structure - I believe - was global in character, used all over the world because it was so very clear and understood by everyone. No alternative interpretations could compete.

So even if we disregard Egyptian influence totally, the picture remains the same: there is a cat doing the dirty work before rebirth can occur.

As the next step in explaining why 8 is a solar number we should examine another - if not global then anyhow predominant in the temperat zones - thought pattern. To explain and make clear the seasons a basic structure with 4 seasons (and one extra between the years) was developed very long ago.

Before that, however, there was another dominant structure which told about 13 and the phases of the moon - which connected to the female:

"The magical connection of the Moon with menstruation is strong and widespread. The baleful moon-dew used by the witches of Thessaly was apparently a girl's first menstrual blood, taken during an eclipse of the Moon.

Pliny devotes a whole chapter of his Natural History to the subject and gives a long list of the powers for good and bad that a menstruating woman possesses. Her touch can blast vines, ivy and rue, fade purple cloth, blacken linen in the wash-tub, tarnish copper, make bees desert their hives, and cause abortions in mares; but she can also rid a field of pests by walking around it naked before sunrise, calm a storm at sea by exposing her genitals, and cure boils, erysipelas, hydrophobia and barrenness. It the Talmud it is said that if a menstruating woman passes between two men, one of them will die." (The White Goddess)

The connection with the female led further to the time of pregnancy. From this it became evident that those 13 month should be looked upon as 9 + 4.

But the moon had 3 phases (in addition to its dark newmoon phase), waxing, full and waning moon. Therefore a similar pattern should be found for the year, and 9 reasonably was to be divided into 5 + 4. The year should have 3 seasons, not equal in length (that was not possible with whole numbers) but with the pattern 5 + 4 + 4.

Of course the 5-month period could have been located in the middle of the year or at the end, but it was located at the beginning:

"... This calendar [a complicated one which we don't need to bother about at this moment] explains the reference in Gwion's Preiddeu Annwm to the 'ox with seven-score knobs on his collar': the ox is the first flight of five months, consisting of 140 days; it is presumably followed by a lion of one hundred and twelve days, and a serpent of the same length, to justify the two texts already quoted ... from Euripides and the Welsh poet Cynddelw - both appealing to the God of the year to appear as a wild bull, a fire-breathing lion and a many-headed snake. The griffon-eagle must be the creature of the extra day, since the god becomes immortal in this form.

The year of Bull, Lion, Serpent and Eagle is Babylonian: a calendar beast, called Sir-rush, on the Dragon Gate at Babylon having the body and horns of a bull; forelegs and mane of a lion; head, scales and tail of a serpent; hindlegs and feet of an eagle." (The White Goddess)

5 + 4 = 9 means that 'waxing moon' is added to 'full moon'. The season of increasing light from the sun is added to the season of maximum sun light (as seen over the year). However, with the distinction that the sun doe not go 9 'steps' but only 8.

"... eight [is] the number of solar increase ..."  (The White Goddess)

In the calendar for the year we thereby reach August (as seen from north of the equator) or February (as seen from south of the equator). 'Summer' does not end at summer solstice.

This is a sound map, describing what really happens in the nature. In my experience summer heat is at its maximum at the end of July and the beginning of August. Summer may even continue a bit into September, but that is not certain.