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mago |
Maybe a better name for this glyph type would have been atua mago (shark god), because Metoro said so a few times. However, a short label is to prefer, especially so as it was used more often. |
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A few preliminary remarks and imaginations: 1. The mago glyph type can be regarded as vaha mea with an additional sign in form of the curve of the tail:
In hakaturou the curve sign comes at the beginning of a new 'season' and apparently it should be located just beyond the 'peak', as for instance beyond noon:
The basic idea of sun turning around to begin his descent is at first sight not equally clear in the following example:
But structurally regarded the 2nd half of the week corresponds to the 2nd part of the day (p.m.), and we can identify henua in the 4 first days as marking the 'square' of 'dry land'. A 'water-filled hole' (vaha kai) is the 8th and last glyph of the 1st half of the week (which we should compare with how in the cycle of the year honui glyphs appear beyond midsummer, the 'noon' of the year). Then follows the 2nd half of the week which is characterized by hakaturou glyphs with bent 'tails' and - significantly - closed 'mouths'. It probably means the phase of 'eating' (growing) is over. At midsummer sun turns around and 'changes his habit' (into a 'raincoat') and this structure seems to have influenced the creator of the weekly calendar above. |
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