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There are no koti glyphs in G and neither in Q. In C, though, there are several:

Ca3-12 Ca7-24 Ca9-9 Cb6-6 Cb6-22 Cb14-8

The full moon (Omotohi) glyph, Ca7-24, is exceptional. While assembling the koti glyphs from all the texts, I have here made an exception to the rule that there should be a 'vertical division in parts'. The 'broken' henua is - strictly speaking - not an example of koti. But the idea visualized is closely connected, it seems, with koti. The 'sucking' (omo) which explains the growth of moon is 'cut off' (tohi) at full moon. Full moon is where one phase is ending ('morning') and then next is beginning ('evening').

Earlier - in the excursion at ihe tau - I told about Nuahine ká umu a ragi kotikoti, the old woman who lights a fire in her 'oven' at full moon, 'in the divided (kotikoti) sky', which in a way 'proves' that Ca7-24 belongs among the koti glyphs:

... The divided (kotikoti) sky (ragi) means the point where one season is finished and another is beginning. We can compare with the kuhane station Hatinga Te Kohe (the broken 'bamboo' staff) at the end of the solar year (12 * 29.5 = 354), as illustrated in Ab1-37

A new season must begin where the old one ends, therefore hanau (birth) is the main sign in the middle between 'death' (ihe tau) and 'birth' (reversed ihe tau) ...

Ab1-37 and other glyphs which may indicate a horizontal division have not been assembled among the koti glyphs in my catalogue. Ca7-24 is unique in that respect.