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One more of the pages at 'Ca2-11':

 

If the reversal of perspective (compared with Tahua) continues also in line Ca2-1, it may give us a tool to work with.

Tagata rere at left in Ca2-11 is located as glyph number 8 counted from the 'midnight henua' in Ca2-4 (number 8 makes a planet return):

Ca2-1 Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 Ca2-5 Ca2-6
Ca2-7 Ca2-8 Ca2-9 Ca2-10 Ca2-11 Ca2-12
Ca2-13 Ca2-14 Ca2-15

In Ca2-12 the left of the twin heads is gone, and the body has grown thicker (we have moved into the 2nd phase, the waning phase). The thread at left, where also a 'leg' has been half lost, reminds us of the thread where once a head must have been:

Ca2-11 Ca2-12 Ka1-7

Both Ca2-11 and Ka1-7 have tagata rere at left.

 

Also the other legs have changed:

Ca2-10 Ca2-12

Not even the leg at top right is quite the same, it seems to have grown a little.

The bottom leg at right is quite different. It has become thin as those at left. It has also lifted a bit.

The bottom leg at left has been drawn in, the knee is closer to the body.

The top leg at left is just like a thread, but we can see that it is the bottom part of the former leg. With 4 legs and each having a top and a bottom part, the number becomes 8.

The change from 4 legs (4 doublemonths, presumably) for Moon in Ca2-10 into 3½ legs for Sun in Ca2-12 presumably is a way to say the Moon has 8 as her limit, but  Sun only 7 (= 3 + 4). And 7 + 8 = 15:

Aa1-2 Aa1-3 Aa1-4 Aa1-5 Aa1-6 Aa1-7 Aa1-8
3 4
Aa1-9 Aa1-10 Aa1-11 Aa1-12 Aa1-13 Aa1-14 Aa1-15 Aa1-1
4 4

Aa1-1 has two 'cracks' in his little body, one at the throat and one at the navel. He is tamaiti, because 14 * 29.5 = 413 means 15 months (the first one in the dark) have elapsed. The order of light says Aa1-15 is glyph number 14.

The two cracks may be related to the two 'threads' across the throat in Aa1-11 (which is number 10 in the light).

We can colour and complete the table with the pair of tamaiti (if moon has one tamaiti, then sun maybe should have twins):

Ca2-1 Ca2-2 (1) Ca2-3 Ca2-4 Ca2-5 Ca2-6
Ca2-7 Ca2-8 Ca2-9 Ca2-10 Ca2-11 Ca2-12
Ca2-13 Ca2-14 Ca2-15 (14) Ca2-16 Ca2-17 Ca2-18 (17)

Vai at right in Ca2-11 (Saturn) does not have the same form as vai in Ca2-15 (Mercury). The vai at Saturn looks somewhat irregular, as if the upper part was shown by its reflection on the surface of the sea. Though thereby loosing the sign of moon at bottom left. 3 moon signs is, maybe, a sign that the 4th represents the 4th dark quarter (of the month or of the year).

Ca2-11 Ca2-15

If the point where the arm of tagata rere touches vai means anything (which it should), then the arm could have taken over the role of the 4th missing moon sign. In Ca2-15 the two signs at bottom are tao rather than moon signs, maybe the twins just ahead.

The inside oval of vai in Ca2-11 has at bottom a hint of a tamaiti knob, while the top looks like the end of a citrus fruit. Maybe this 'lemon' end has turned to be at the bottom in Ca2-15? No, there are differences.

The form of vai at Mercury maybe alludes to the form of a canoe (seen from above), while vai at Saturn is more that of a fluid container.

Saturn at Bonampak' sits down with a slight bulging stomach and touches the generator, the turtle of Orion, and the curious left front paw of the turtle is not a leg - it is another head. He is twins:

There are twin heads at winter solstice, the twisted one taking a bite. The form of the Orion Belt Turtle is in principle the same as the rongorongo sign of vai. In the center there is an inner oval.

The turtle has a string at his end.

Mars is holding high the Sun, Saturn is performing another trick. The girdle of Saturn is the same as the twisted 'snake head' of the turtle - both are taking a bite - making a mark in the cycle of time.

The 2 copulating peccaries in Gemini show 3 faces of Venus - calendrical light begins here. The turtle of Orion shows 2 heads, one twisted upside down and marking a crack in cyclical time. This happens in the 'sea' (below the equator of the sky), while the peccaries are 'on land'.

Mars accomplishes the rising of the Sun in spring, when 'land' has risen from the 'sea'. Saturn achieves a 'painting' of the turtle and shares in marking where the old year must end.

Mars is sitting sideways, Saturn not. Mars has his girdle in form of Y, his 'equator' is where Y comes. The tray Mars is holding has fire below it. The tray is the surface of the earth.

Saturn has his 'leg' out in front, with Venus hovering close. A water lily is at his back. His Y-formed girdle is different from that of Mars, it goes twice around his middle and its open grappling end is hanging down and it consists of two parts.

The Venus face in front of Saturn should be the evening star. Therefore the Venus on top of the peccaries should represent the morning star (and the one in front of the bottom peccary snout her invisible phase).

The Orion turtle has 3 fires (the stars of Orion's Belt). Below the tray of Mars there are 2 fires (formed in the same way). Below the tray is the underworld, and adding 2 + 3 we get rima (fire). Adding the eyes of Venus we reach 2 + 2 + 2 = 6. With the 2 holes it becomes 8.

In the copulating peccaries we can see the crack in time between the front part and the back part. Saturn bends low with face downwards, Mars stretches high with face upwards.

The vai sign in form of the Orion Belt Turtle has 3 fires because in front (in time) lies the first 3 months of spring sun. These 3 'fires' cannot be described in the vai sign because they are inside the 'water' (the season of 'water'), they are same entity as the 'water'.

But the fires are also below the table of the earth at Mars, here represented as twins. The year of Sun light has twins - two faces as Mars himself has - the first being the strong spring brute and the second being the cultivated weaker one.

Mars primarily represents the spring beast (in the same was as Sun primarily represents the spring twin of the year). There are two turtles in the sky, one in Gemini and one in Orion. The one in Gemini is the cap of the turtle and in Orion is the cup.

Orion lies between 5 and 6 hours from spring equinox (north of the equator and according to our time). Gemini is between 6 and 8 hours, it comes somewhat later. First there is the birth of sea then the birth of land.

With 6 hours as a reasonable approximation of the location of the sky turtle, a quarter has gone into the past, and with equinox as the point of beginning, the turtle will be at summer solstice north of the equator, at winter solstice south of the equator. Saturn and the turtle belong together south of the equator. This is what the Bonampak' painting shows. Saturn is south of the equator at the same time as Mars is north of the equator.