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Logic forces us to conclude that such vaha kai glyphs as Ha7-35 should indicate head upside down and a location in the south:

Ha7-35

The preceding tahana sign (in Ha7-33) has the same type of undulation at bottom (expressed as a prolongation of the bent leg):

5 223
Ha3-39 Ha3-45 Ha7-33
231 = 7 * 33

The distance from Ha3-39 up to and including Ha7-33 is 231 glyphs, a number which is confirmed by 7 * 33 = 231. In the G text 33 weeks seems to be the measure to the birth (hanau) of the back side:

Ga8-25 Ga8-26 Gb1-1 Gb1-2 (231) Gb1-3

It appears as if the end of the front side comes by being swallowed (the kai gesture in Ha7-33). Maybe the undulation sign (both in vaha kai and in Ha7-33) means the 'waves of the sea'. Beyond high summer comes 'the Flood'.

Counting from tahana in Ha3-45 brings us 6 glyphs further ahead to a glyph where the sign in front could be a downpour:

Ha7-34 Ha7-35 Ha7-36 Ha7-37 Ha7-38 (236) Ha7-39

The following Ha7-39 shows by way of the reversed tapa mea at left that spring is in the past. A new season is being born (hanau), 'personified' by the little hau tea in front which carries no mata. Sun has disappeared.

 
 

Inserting information about the planets shows that Sun is positioned as number 1 on the 'back side':

*Ha7-33 *Ha7-34 *Ha7-35
*Ha7-36 *Ha7-37 *Ha7-38 *Ha7-39

Moon has a 'wilting' maro with 3 'feathers' and Mars it is who is being 'swallowed' in Ha7-35. If vaha kai identifies which 'garment' of the Sun (or the Moon) is being 'swallowed', then the reversed vaha kai in Yb3-2 should represent how Jupiter (Father Light) is on his way to be reborn:

18 15 3
Ya3-5 Ya3-6 Ya3-7 Yb3-1 Yb3-2 Yb3-3
36 6

Similarly, it should be Venus reborn as morning star in Yc1-3:

Yc1-1 Yc1-2 Yc1-3 Yc1-4 Yc1-5 Yc1-6 Yc1-7
Yc1-8 Yc1-9 Yc1-10

While in Gb5-10 Venus as evening star is being swallowed:

Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16

Beyond vaha kai at *Ha7-35 comes Mercury, which is quite in order because he is a planet so close to the sun that he maybe only can be seen while crossing in front of the face of the sun. He will then look dark and therefore be the proper planet for the time when Sun has left us beyond high summer.

The Turkestan view of cosmos depicts Mercury close below Sun with a broad light band across, the opposite of the next - extremely bright - planet (Venus):

The broad sun band of Mercury agrees with the broad haga rave 'band' in *Ha7-36:

*Ha7-36 *Ha7-37 *Ha7-38 *Ha7-39

The bottom third of the Turkestan picture (below the upper area inside which small circles without added signs are spread about) we should probably read as 'the watery region of the sky', the time of 'the Flood'. Another Turkestan picture (also from Hamlet's Mill) supports my suggestion:

Arguments from Chinese Turkestan may seem farfetched, but I have reason for believing there is a close agreement between their world view and what we can read in the rongorongo texts.

 

The hour-glass form of Meru could be related to the form of the central part in the sign 8.

Moving from one 'zero' to the next 'zero' involves a crossing, maybe as in the Mayan months signs at the beginning of the year:

1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip hahe hura

Why is an hourglass formed as it is, with one cone upside down on the top of another one?

If the ancient Egyptians had been able to, would they have had another pyramid upside down on top of the bottom one?