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6.
Next we notice how there are two
appendices hanging down from the 'hull' of the 'ship':
They do not depict the 'fins' of a 'fish-ship'. Neither do they
represent some kind of paddles for conveying the canoe forward. Instead
they are meant as a visual cue for the crescents of the moon. One
appendice is oriented forward at the bow and the other backwards at the
stern.
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South of the equator the
waxing moon phase has a form similar to C, a form which
we who live north of the equator have learnt means waning
moon.
The front 'fin' of
rei miro glyphs, therefore, suggests waxing moon and
the 'fin' at the stern of the
'ship' the waning moon. |
Only seldom
do we find GD13 glyphs without the appendages, and if so the
orientation of the glyph is reversed, a kind of signal meaning the
opposite of the normal interpretation of rei miro glyphs.
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In Da1-111 we have a
Rei glyph without appendages, immediately
thereafter followed by a normal glyph:
 
The left of the pair
corresponds in its form to the waning phase of the moon
(as seen from the latitude of Easter Island).
In Hb5-44 a reversed
horizontal rei miro probably is depicted, compare
with Rb3-103:
 
Without the appendages
there is a lack of force. The missing head and the arm
at right - drawn without hand - are signs conveying the
same message. |
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