For Tahua I have listed as koti only 3 glyphs in the catalogue:
Aa8-80 has been discussed several times earlier, and Ab4-36 we discovered when hanau glyphs were in focus. But Aa6-23 we have not looked at before. It exemplifies how a henua glyph can be vertically divided (cfr Omotohi where another type of henua division was used):
From the visual cues it seems possible that Aa6-22--24 constitute a triplet. At left is a henua whole and intact, in the center another henua is not only divided but leaning forward, at right ariga erua could say that the 'face of sun' is present in his full stature. Metoro here said: te henua - no te koti pu - ko te tagata ariga hakaganagana erua. He seems to have seen a hole (pu) in Aa6-23. A discussion of the meaning of Aa6-23 follows here. |
