We will start our study of hura glyphs by looking on the front side of Mamari:
I noticed 'balls on strings' in Ca4-1 and decided to classify this glyph as hura. And because of its closeness I then added also Ca4-2 as such an example. But had it had not been so close - and thereby obviously in some way related to hura in Ca4-1 - I maybe would not have done so. Rogo in Ca3-25 and other circumstances (for instance hau tea with Janus eyes in Ca4-3) show us that the time is the beginning of the solar year. The 'nut' in Ca1-26 is beginning to sprout in Ca4-2. Possibly the complex picture in Ca4-2 is meant to show what happens down on earth once Sun has began to move again. If so, then the preceding phase should be light returning in the sky, which might be the message in Ca4-1. |
