3. On Tahiti toa (another spelling of toga) means 'south', and in the tropical belt the distinction between summer and winter breaks down - there are two seasons when sun is away. Yet, with southwest being the direction to the setting sun and northeast the direction to the rising sun north is closer to the beginning than south. Tahiti and most other Polynesian islands are located south of the equator. The glyph type I have named toga could be a fusion between ihe tau and toa:
Furthermore, toga appears to be the opposite of hua:
In hua a left arm is fruitful, in toga a right arm indicates the opposite. In hua the 'path' runs from left upwards, then to the right and down again, in toga it leads from left downwards, then to the right and up again. |
