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mama

Metoro consistently said mama at this type of glyph, where the inside of the oval form has 'chevrons'.

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A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. The word mama implies an 'open mouth', it seems. A limpet has only one shell and its other side is pressed firmly against the rock, like a mouth.

The following is the beginning of the Poem of the Elders (ref. Sharp as a Knife), and in the beginning, it says, the newborn gods were sleeping together in disorderly fashion on a rock awash in the saltwater, 'like sea-cucumbers' with 'their mouths against it':

Aanishaw tangagyanggang, wansuuga.	Hereabouts was all saltwater, they say.
Li xitgwaangas, Xhuuya aa.	He was flying all around, the Raven was,
Tigu qqawgashlingaay gi lla quaangas.	looking for land that he could stand on.
Qawdihaw gwaay ghutgwa nang qaadla qqaayghudyas,	After a time, at the toe of the Islands, there was one rock awash.
llagu qqawghaayghan llagha lla xiidas.	He flew there to sit.
Aa ttl sghaana quiidas yasgagas ghiinuusis gangaang	Like sea-cucumbers, gods lay across it,
llagu gutgwii xhihldagahldiyaagas.	putting their mouths against it side by side.
Ga sghaanagwaay ghaaxas lla ttista qqaa sqqagilaangas,	The newborn gods were sleeping, out along the reef,
ttl gwiixhang xhahlgwii at wagwii aa.	heads and tails in all directions.
Ghaadagas gyaanhaw ising ghaalgagang, wansuuga ...	It was light then, and it turned to night, they say ...

The mouth signifies the end and once again we find how the end merges with a new beginning.

Henua ora is the picture of an upside down vulva and at the western horizon there is a 'mouth' which 'swallows' (cfr How Maui gave mortality to Man) all who earlier have been 'born' at the horizon in the east. In Mayan thought it was illustrated as a grasping hand (manik):