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honui | Metoro said hônui only a few times, and then always when seeing a figure with a hole in its middle. The rongorongo system of writing cannot have anything inside the outline of the glyph without it meaning something separate. | |||||||||||||||||||||
A few preliminary remarks and imaginations: 1. When I classified glyphs according to type it was the hole in the center of the glyph which I decided to use as a characteristic of the honui type. A consequence is that such a glyph as e.g. Bb11-20 was classified as honui:
It is primarily, though, a glyph of the ariga erua type. It is also listed as such. Another instance of glyphs on the border line between one type and another is a number of honu glyphs with holes in them. Such, however, I have not listed as honui, only as honu. Examples:
Clearly the hole can have different qualities, it can be large or small or medium in size, it can be regular or irregular, and there can be more than one hole. Such variations indicate the presence of signs. Honu glyphs with holes in them are not listed as honui because they have not the tagata characteristics. If there were no holes in the honui glyphs most of them would have been classified as tagata. Glyphs which look like tagata but have one or more holes in them are not tagata but honui. |
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