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maitaki

Metoro usually said maitaki - and maharoga for the 2nd GD53 in a row - words meaning 'beautiful' respectively 'object of admiration'.

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A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. The three balls arranged vertically in a pile maybe could illustrate three months, three quarters or some other time measure composed of three subunits.

"Among the Nahyssan of S. Carolina time was measured and a rude chronology arranged by means of strings of leather with knots of various colour, like the Peruvian quipos. The Dakota use a circle as the symbol of time, a smaller one for a year and a larger one for a longer period: the circles are arranged in rows, thus: OOO or O-O-O. The Pima of Arizona make use of a tally. The year-mark is a deep notch across the stick..." (Nilsson)

The vertical straight line could then represent a string tightly drawn to make the measure exact. A vertical straight line is used at noon in Ha6-3 in order to indicate that the 2nd part of the daylight (waning) is about to begin:

Ha6-1

Ha6-2

Ha6-3

Ha6-4

The vertical straight line is also used in other glyph types, e.g.:

kahi poporo henua ora

The first two glyphs show at the top end a bifurcation sign (Y), while in henua ora this sign is put upside down at the bottom (a sign of negation). Beyond the first growth the plant stem divides into twins.

The Y sign is absent in Ha6-3--4, presumably because the 'twin' phase comes later than noon. The double vertical lines may indicate, though, that this bifurcation will happen just at noon.

Perhaps, therefore, double maitaki glyphs are located at midsummer: