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nuku |
This armless figure
is always looking straight at us (en face). Nuku means land, but also army. |
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A few preliminary remarks and imaginations: 1. The missing arms could be a sign of the same category as vae kore (missing legs):
Arms are, like hands and fingers, called rima and without arms it would be rima kore.
Rimatitiri is to walk with the hands (and the arms too of course) behind the back. When there are no arms visible, it could be a way to say that there is no fire (i.e. no sun). Rima also means 5, and a closed fist evidently can be used to indicate the beginning of 5 sun doublemonths:
No arms (rima kore) will then be the beginning of the season thereafter, autumn. |