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Why are there two small holes in each of these three honu glyphs? Ga7-25 Ga7-26 Ga7-29 Most easy way to answer anything meaningful is to count: 7 * (25 + 26 + 29) = 560 = 20 * 28. They represent the final phase of the sun (20). 6 'feathers' at left in the 'bough' of Ga7-25 and 6 at right = 12 confirms the connection with sun, and furthermore adds that the location is in the 'middle'. Or rather - the 'middle' is in the past, which we can agree with. If they truly stand 'in front' of the 'middle', then they could each represent a double-month beyond midsummer, and thereby fulfil the prediction of 6 'feathers' to the right. Two small eyes is what the Jaguar got as a substitue when he had lost his real strong ones in a juggling contest with an anteater. The 'rainy' Pleiades the ancients said. When the Pleiades reappear they bring rain. In Polynesia they were regarded as 6 stars, Matariki ('small eyes'). The triplet of honu glyphs with double holes could therefore represent also the Pleaides.

"M119. Cayua. 'The jaguar's eyes' The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out, the jaguar invited the anteater to a juggling contest, using their eyes removed from the sockets: the anteater's eyes fell back into place, but the jaguar's remained hanging at the top of a tree, and so it became blind. At the request of the anteater, the macuco bird made the jaguar new eyes out of water, and these allowed it to see in the dark. Since that time the jaguar only goes out at night. Having lost fire, it eats meat raw. It never attacks the macuco - in the Apapocuva version, the inhambu bird, also one of the Tinamidae ..." (The Raw and the Cooked)

According to unanimous South American myth tellers the Jaguar was the keeper of fire before man got hold of it. The tree in which his eye remained hanging presumably is the cosmic tree (the Milky Way) standing high and straight at midsummer. The eyes of water refers to the initial phase of waning sun. But the Jaguar wept already before that (a sign of the coming disaster) because his fire had been stolen. Eyes are symbols of fire.

"Savage tribes knew the Pleiades familiarly, as well as did the people of ancient and modern civilization; and Ellis wrote of the natives of the Society and Tonga Islands, who called these stars Matarii, the Little Eyes:   The two seasons of the year were divided by the Pleiades; the first, Matarii i nia, the Pleiades Above, commenced when, in the evening, those stars appeared on the horizon, and continued while, after sunset, they were above. The other season, Matarii i raro, the Pleiades Below, began when, at sunset, they ceased to be visible, and continued till, in the evening, they appeared again above the horizon.    Gill gives a similar story from the Hervey group, where the Little Eyes are Matariki, and at one time but a single star, so bright that their god Tane in envy got hold of Aumea, our Aldebaran, and, accompanied by Mere, our Sirius, chased the offender, who took refuge in a stream. Mere, however, drained off the water, and Tane hurled Aumea at the fugitive, breaking him into the six pieces that we now see, whence the native name for the fragments, Tauono, the Six, quoted by Flammarion as Tau, both titles singularly like the Latin Taurus. They were the favorite one of the various avelas, or guides at sea in night voyages from one island to another; and, as opening the year, objects of worship down to 1857, when Christianity prevailed throughout these islands." (Allen)

Once Matariki was a single very bright star, who took refuge in a stream (presumably the Milky Way). Its water hid him. Later there were 6 pieces of him in Tauono, and they defined the two halves of the year.

80 is the sum of 25, 26, and 29. It could be a sign that Te Varu Kainga lies here. If so, then there ought to be more signs. For instance 8 glyphs in a sequence:

 

Ga7-18	Ga7-19	Ga7-20	Ga7-21	Ga7-22 (192)
Ga7-23	Ga7-24	Ga7-25	Ga7-26
Ga7-27	Ga7-28	Ga7-29	Ga7-30
Ga7-31	Ga7-32	Ga7-33	Ga7-34 (204)

Ga7-22 indicates, it seems, the end of the cycle based on key number 7. Its ordinal number agrees, because also the text of K has 192 as its last glyph.

In Ga7-32 the sign at left has 7 feathers in the past and 6 in front, and 7 * 32 = 224, maybe pointing at Ga8-20:

 

	43
Ga5-10 (121)		Ga6-24 (165)
45

54
	Ga8-16 (220)	Ga8-17	Ga8-18	Ga8-19	Ga8-20 (224)	Ga8-21
59

45 + 59 = 104 = 4 * 26 is encouraging. There is a 'square' here, connected with the cycle ending at 364:

	50			50
Gb8-30 (1)		Ga2-21 (52)	Ga2-23		Ga4-20 (104)

	258
Ga4-21 (105)		Gb5-10 (364)
260

The distance from Ga4-20 to the same type of glyph in Ga7-18 is 188 - 104 = 84, a number incongruent with 26. Measuring from Ga4-20 to the similarly numbered Ga8-20 is also negative in that respect: 224 - 104 = 120. But 120 = 12 * 10 is meaningful. A first season of the sun begins with Ga4-21 and ends with Ga8-20:

 

	118			138
Ga4-21 (105)		Ga8-20 (224)	Ga8-21		Gb5-10 (364)
120			140

We are here receiving a message we recognize: sun rules only up to midsummer, then moon takes over.

But the maitaki sign in Ga8-21 appears already earlier, at Ga7-24, where it looks as if the new moon season is the dangling great ball at right:

 

		28
Ga7-24 (194)	Ga7-25		Ga8-20 (224)	Ga8-21
	30

Therefore we should adjust 120 into 90 + 30:

 

	88			28			138
Ga4-21 (105)		Ga7-24 (194)	Ga7-25		Ga8-20 (224)	Ga8-21		Gb5-10 (364)
90			30			140
260

The spring sun rising fish (manu kake) has a quarter, only, before it ends. Then comes a month of interregnum, sun has left and moon has not yet taken over.

7 * 25 (at Ga7-25) = 175, and twice that is 350. We adjusted it to 300 by subtracting the first 50 glyphs in the text. But it could indicate the reappearing Pleiades, a season which possibly is beginning with Ga7-15, where there are 6 balls at right, which in some curious way develop into the great bud of the moon:

 

Ga7-15 (185)	Ga7-16	Ga7-17	Ga7-18	Ga7-19	Ga7-20
Ga7-21	Ga7-22 (192)	Ga7-23
Ga7-24	Ga7-25	Ga7-26	Ga7-27
Ga7-28	Ga7-29	Ga7-30

The Pleiades has a key role:

... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day.

God removed stars in the Pleiades and out poured the deluge through two open holes. He did not remove all the stars, it seems, presumably only two. Are these two holes what we see in the triplet of honu glyphs? They are drawn very alike, and they could be the same honu seen thrice.

The crack in the carapace, which explains why there are more glyphs than necessary for the solar year, is a time when neither spring nor autumn sun is present. The twins should be represented by two holes. These two holes are - if I am on the right track - drawn very small, they represent two holes in the Pleiades, two stars have been removed by God.

Why did he do that? Presumably he wanted to plant them like seeds. Two new half years must be created. It was smart to take the stars from the Pleiades, because then he did not need to bother with watering the new plants, it would be done through the two holes.