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If Thunder is located at high summer, marking the beginning of the 2nd (rainy) part of the year, then his twin sons - Boanerges - maybe could be represented at Hb9-44 and Hb9-46:

Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42
Hb9-43 Hb9-44 Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47

They should belong to the 2nd part of the year. If the back-to-back twins represent new year, then the curious person (ariga erua) in Hb9-42 could be Thunder, half a year later (at summer solstice).

The kava glyphs (Hb9-43 and Hb9-45) will then suddenly become understandable - they depict the lightning bolts which generate the thunder twins (Taqui Hua-Hua according to the ancient Peruvians).

The mouth in Hb9-46 (following a kava sign adorned at the top with a sign of niu) is not very natural, it is drawn like the sector in a circle. The right head in Hb9-42 has a similar mouth. Presumably this twin is the one generated from the sky (Santiago). St. John would then be the natural twin. This guess receives support from the fact that St. John's Day is located at June 24th. In spring nature rules.

The fingers in Hb9-41 are drawn to indicate the 'spreading out' of spring. In Hb9-44 the fingers are 'wilting', describing - it seems - the season beyond high summer. In Hb9-46 the fingers are drawn horizontal, appropriate for the time of solstice. Moreover, the back is bent as if the sitting person were old.

I have mentioned the Peruvian Taqui Hua-Hua in order to put attention on hua-hua as immediately understandable for a Polynesian - hua means offspring and the double hua-hua means offspring intensified.

Also taqui should point in the right direction:

Taki

Dieffenbach, in his 'Travels in New Zealand', mentions that a title or appellation of the chiefs there was 'Taki o te Wenua', and explains it to mean 'the root of the land'. As the New Zealanders also came from the Samoan group, it seems as if what once was a national appellation, in course of time became the title of a chief. If Diffenbach's interpretation of the title is correct, it corresponds to the Hawiian Kumu-honua, the name of the first man. The same author also mentions, p. 67, a place where chiefs go after death, and says it is called Taki-wana ... when a chief dies he first goes to Taki-wana, where his left eye remains and becomes a star. Then he goes to Reinga and further. Spirits sometimes leave the nether world and come back on earth and communicate with the living ... Reinga was a place near the North Cape, New Zealand, where the spirits of the dead collected previous to their final departure. Fornander.

Taki hua-hua should mean the twin offspring of the first man (i.e. spring sun).

The 'root' is, of course, the beginning of all growth. Therefore, the ginger roots (kava) in Hb9-43 and Hb9-45 should mean the beginning of respectively the first and second of the twins.

The first of the twins, he with a soft natural mouth, comes after midsummer. The second twin, with a straight and orderly mouth, is the sun child. In 'Father Thunder' (Hb9-42) the sun twin is looking back, the moon twin looking forward.

Taqui hua-hua
St. John earth (moon) child
St. James sky (sun) child

There is a balanced structure, it seems, with 4 ('earth') glyphs at the beginning and 3 at the end:

4
Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42
5
Hb9-43 Hb9-44
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47

5 glyphs are used for the season when sun is absent, also a way to balance the forces.

I ought to add a link from Taqui Hua-Hua to a new page.

The Peruvian Taqui Hua-Hua ought to be understood immediately by a Polyensian (at least anciently). Hua is Polynesian for 'fruit', i.e. offspring, and to double a word implies its meaning is intensified. Hua-hua would be 'much fruit' = 'twins'.

Taki is described by Fornander:

Dieffenbach, in his 'Travels in New Zealand', mentions that a title or appellation of the chiefs there was 'Taki o te Wenua', and explains it to mean 'the root of the land'. As the New Zealanders also came from the Samoan group, it seems as if what once was a national appellation, in course of time became the title of a chief.

If Diffenbach's interpretation of the title is correct, it corresponds to the Hawiian Kumu-honua, the name of the first man. The same author also mentions, p. 67, a place where chiefs go after death, and says it is called Taki-wana ... when a chief dies he first goes to Taki-wana, where his left eye remains and becomes a star. Then he goes to Reinga and further. Spirits sometimes leave the nether world and come back on earth and communicate with the living ... Reinga was a place near the North Cape, New Zealand, where the spirits of the dead collected previous to their final departure.

The root is of course a clear symbol of 'origin'. From the root comes growth ('multiplication', 'spreading out'). Reading Thursday according to H we can understand the kava signs not only as 'lightning' but also as 'roots'. Taqui Hua-Hua is a good translation of

Hb9-43 Hb9-44 Hb9-45 Hb9-46

To conclude the case we must remember that the ginger root was named kava on Easter Island.

... On Easter Island they had not the kava root. Instead they used the word kava for ginger (gingembre, according to Bishop Jaussen's word-list, ref.: Barthel). And ginger roots are yellow, twisted and knobby: