3. The primary meaning of haga rave glyphs may be change. Darkness is a power contrary to light. In spring (or at dawn) the light is strong and winning over darkness, in autumn (or dusk) the light is weaker. At the solstices the powers of light and darkness weigh equal, but there the most important changes occur, slowly at first and then accelerating. In the Hawaiian language the word moai means 'bending over, arching like a tree', and at some point in life ('zenith') people indeed start to bend over, a process which is difficult to see at the beginning but very clear later in life. Their backs are no longer straight and their heads are leaning forward, starting to hang down like ripe fruits. Could, maybe, the 'fishhook' variant of hakaturou in for instance Ha6-6 indicate this idea? Hardly, the 'head' is definitely not starting to hang down:
A moai statue stands high, as if at zenith, helping to keep the sky up ('sky propper'). Combining the 'sky propper' with haga rave can, though, be done by fusing together the two glyph types:
The 'fishhook' sign probably indicates the 'dry stage', the season when growth has stopped, cfr when Ure Honu hung the 'completely dried out' (pakapaka) head of king Hotu A Matua high under his roof. The distribuition of 'fishhooks' over the week indicates they correspond to the 2nd half, and the same pattern when used for the day will then lead to reading Ha6-6 as 'p.m.':
In other words, the straight hakaturou glyph type often seems to indicate a season of 'leaf', while the bent variant apparently was used for the opposite season, the season of 'straw': ... when it was desired to denote the whole year, the combined phrase 'winter and summer' was employed, or else equivalent concrete expressions such as 'in bareness and in leaf', 'in straw and in grass' ... |
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