The sense of
'middle' in hakaturou glyphs is not confined, it seems,
to glyphs looking like fish hooks:
Here a reversal
occurs between Pb9-32 and Pb9-37 (shown by the 'arm' first at
right in maitaki and then at left).
Probably there is
a representation in Pb9-33 of te pito
o te henua (the 'navel of the earth', the 'land' in the
center). Remarkably, in the parallel text of H the glyph is
destroyed (or - probably - was never even drawn):
The border line
at right in Hb8-15 is missing - intentionally from the beginning
or destroyed later. We recognize the glyph type as indicating
the final of the 2nd half of the year - but also the final of
the 2nd half of the month (the 29th night of the moon):
The bottom end of the peculiar Hb8-103 (with ordinal number reconstructed as 19, suggesting the final of the old sun) presumably refers to the winter solstice gnomon standing in the dark 5 nights:
The parallel honu glyph (Pb9-35) has another meaning, connected with the 'turtle' as the place where a new year fire should be alighted. |
