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Aa3-26 |
Aa3-27 |
Aa3-28 |
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Aa3-29 |
Aa3-30 |
Aa3-31 |
Aa3-32 |
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Aa3-33 |
Aa3-34 |
Aa3-35 (210) |
Significantly a new sun is emerging and held
up high in Aa3-35. A period of birth (maybe 26
/ 2 = 13 days long) seems to be over:
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Aa3-10 (185) |
Aa3-35 (210) |
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26 / 2 = 13 |
Tagata (or rather honui) says that a
season has ended. His mata ear at left is
inclining upwards while his mata at right is
of another sort - it is being released like an egg.
The form of this 'egg' coincides with the form
of the open hole in his abdomen. Aa3-35 must
depict
midsummer.
From a central position at the top in
manu kake ariga erua Sun has descended to his lowest
position, central and below the bottom of honui.
It looks as if Sun is sinking down between
two mountains. His arm in front is making a conspicious bend
as if to
say that Sun (or rather the closed 'fist' containing
his 'fire') is now making a turn upwards.
The
high summer reversal entails a sudden change
from very hot to cool and pleasant:
"As for the rebirth of the world,
another 'Twilight' comes to mind. It is the
Kumulipo, a Polynesian cosmogonic myth from
Hawaii. 'Although we have the source of all
things from chaos, it is a chaos which is simply
the wreck and ruin of an earlier world.'
Now turns the swinging of time
over on the burnt-out world // Back goes the
great turning of things upwards again // As yet
sunless the time of shrouded lights; //
Unsteady, as in dim moon-shimmer, // From out
Makalii's night-dark veil of cloud //
Thrills, shadow-like, the prefiguration of the
world to be." (Hamlet's Mill)
The 'burnt-out world' possibly refers to the
final of 'fire', the end of a solar year.
Another interpretation, more in harmony with the
rongorongo texts, is the final of 'spring
fire'. The latter alternative would pinpoint the
time to coincide with midwinter in Hawaii.
The night sky will at winter solstice make a
return upwards. Sun, who has only 1 'face', will
be reborn then. And he will grow during spring
to reach his full stature at summer solstice.
Suddenly he then disappears behind rain clouds
and this veil (shroud) hides what is happening.
He must have gone down.
A
star in the night is being born from
Mother Earth in the east and ca 180 degrees
later on will disappear suddenly as if swallowed
by the horizon in the west. This rule has no
exception. Therefore it is rational to think
that Spring Sun after 180 days must go down. He
will make a rendezvous with Mother Earth, a
conjunction which results in an 'egg' to be
hatched in midwinter.
The 2 + 5 Rei signs probably underline
the important regenerative process during these
days of 'thrill'.
