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5. The hard cover (vol. 2) of the report from the Norvegian archeaological expedition to Easter Island (Heyerdahl 4) bears a striking design:

The picture is transferred from a stone ball found

"... between the lava boulders covering the ahu at Hanga-tetenga ... The sculpture is almost spheroid, with a slight flattening of the ventral side, the rest of the surface being covered by a double-headed animal carved in low relief in such a manner that the heads face in opposite directions on each side of a round mutual body." (Heyerdahl 4)

I guess it could be a picture of the 8th son of Tu, Gagana. The god has two faces and there is a certain resemblance between these and the top part of Eb6-24:

Eb6-24

Though the bottom part of Eb6-24 is apparently framing the empty eyes of the stone ball mata.

The 'eyebrows' are not symmetric, perhaps because the two halves of a year are assymmetric; south of the equator summer is shorter than winter and the 'eyebrows' could represent these two seasons. The 'eyebrows' are like bent henua (or bent branches), one a little bit longer than the other. The longer one is also marginally thicker at the 'trunk' of the 'tree' (the nose). The idea of a nose being like the trunk of a tree is visualized in the face of this ao:

 

 

6. There is one obvious Gagana candidate in our own ancient cabinet of gods, viz. Venus. She returns to the same place after 8 (earth) years. The Maya were afraid of her and they depicted her with a design incorporating two eyes and a nose:

We 'know' that Saturn inhabits the solstices, and if Gagana is Venus, then she may well be connected with Saturn and with day 236, because the Maya manipulated her morning star cycle to coincide with 8 lunar months:

 phase

observed periods

periods in the Mayan 'map'

difference

morning star

263

236

- 27

black

50

90

+ 40

evening star

263

250

- 13

black

8

8

0

sum

584

584

0

Although gods are dual and have both a male (rising) aspect and a femal (ascending) aspect, we would perhaps prefer to identify Gagana with Saturn, and the Venus design is found at Saturn:

On Hawaii both Saturn and Venus were named Naholoholo, and horo means to wash down, to swallow etc. In Sweden we have an old name for December 24, 'dopparedagen' which means the day of dipping. There are two days connected with entering (or being swallowed by) water, viz. June 24 and December 24.

Double eyes similar to those of (the presumed) Gagana god are found also in connection with the 19th odd 5-day long month at the end of the Mayan year:

19 Vayeb

Venus should be Gagana because Saturn has no obvious 8-cycle (as far as I know), and the beginning of the calendar for the year comes with Friday in H:

189
Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50 (1110)
 day 1 63

 

Not only Venus and Saturn should be considered, we also have Moon. She obviously is connected with 8.

Maybe the two solstices represent the dark phases of Venus and Moon (also Moon has two if we think in terms of doublemonths), with Saturn as a fundamental power of the dark. Gagana could be Saturn or he could be the dark phases of Venus and Moon.

The 4 Mayan cartouches have Mars and Saturn in the center, as if to define spring. Gemini and Orion are flanking constellations, either to contrast or to reinforce.

Hb9-50 can be read as 9 * 50 = 450:

Gb8-6 Gb8-7 Gb8-8 (450) Gb8-9 Gb8-10

450 seems to be connected with 8 * 8 = 64.