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haś ke |
There is no substance behind my appellation haś ke, because the glyph type is scarce and Metoro instead said mea ke at the only example he saw (Bb1-11) - and which furthermore only to a limited extent resembles the prototype I have chosen. So haś ke ('a different kind of haś') is purely an invention of my own. |
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A few preliminary remarks and imaginations: 1. There is some similarity between haś ke and haś, but none between between haś ke and mea ke: While haś looks like a kind of bough with 'feathers' haś ke seems to be a kind of beast:
2. Probably 'feathers' indicate 'fire' or 'light', and in Monday according to H the pair of haś ke glyphs could illustrate the illuminated crescents of waxing respectively waning moon:
In the parallel P text the creator has instead used mago glyphs:
But that is no great mystery, because there is no hau glyph and the glyph line is b10, i.e. the end is near, or koke-na-make as the Hawaiians said: ... Whereas, over the next two days, Lono plays the part of the sacrifice. The Makahiki effigy is dismantled and hidden away in a rite watched over by the king's 'living god', Kahoali'i or 'The-Companion-of-the-King', the one who is also known as 'Death-is-Near' (Koke-na-make) ... |