I have redmarked my names for them. Basically these names are fetched from what Metoro in his readings for Bishop Jaussen said at the glyphs on tablets A, B, C, and E. However, for many of the glyph types he was not very consistent, which certainly at least in part was due to efforts to make his venerable Bishop comprehend. Another cause must have been that Metoro saw significant small signs which differed between glyphs of the same type. And it would have been strange if Metoro did not try to avoid repeating himself in order to be more eloquent.

Therefore I have been forced to use statistical methods to find the best fit between his various words and respective type of glyph. In a few cases where Metoro offers no help I have invented the names myself, and this method will tend to be used more often as our knowledge increases and glyph types will split up into their main variants.

I could have used various other methods to label my glyph types, but Polynesian names seemed best and why not use the vocabulary of Metoro.

From the glyph types it is then necessary to gradually and cautiously try to assign meanings:


puo	*vaha mea*	*tagata*
covered by earth	opening	fully grown
early dawn before 'sunrise'	the beginning of a new season	apex

Here I have tried with 2 levels, first a level for the more immediate impressions derived from Metoro's vocabulary and what I guess - against the background of my decade-long experiences from looking at the texts - the drawings are meant to show, and then there is a further level for what I imagine the pictures could refer to (mean).

Mostly my bluemarked explanations are still only tentative, which I will indicate by a question mark within parenthesis:


*gagana*	*tagata gagana*	*hanau*
crab (?)	fully grown but dead man	birth
2nd half of the year, beyond midsummer (?)	end of d:o (?)	birth of 'land', 'upraised reef' (?)

I have no gradation of my uncertainty, there will always be (?), never ?? or such.

When there is no (?) - for example with 'birth' at hanau - it means I am no longer thinking about what the glyph type might mean, the problem has been sufficiently solved (at least until contradictory evidence could be accumulating).