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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:

haś ke haś mea ke

While haś looks like a kind of bough with 'feathers' haś ke seems to be a kind of beast:

Gb6-24 I12-74 Bb1-11 Hb9-25

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:

Hb9-22 Hb9-23 Hb9-24 Hb9-25 Hb9-26 Hb9-27 Hb9-28 Hb9-29

In the parallel P text the creator has instead used mago glyphs:

Pb10-32 Pb10-33 Pb10-34 Pb10-35 Pb10-36 Pb10-37 Pb10-38

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) ...