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4. There are other pictorial signs than the types of glyph and these too must be listed, for instance:

vaha mea	Aa6-67	*Ha7-31
opening	head swallowed (?)	white (?)
the beginning of a new season	onset of rainy season (?)	onset of Moon season (?)

hanau	Ga1-12	Ga1-14
birth	d:o with right hand changing into 'open mouth' (?)
'upraised reef' (?)	spiritual revival (?)	d:o with sky dome pushed upwards (?)

viri	Aa8-26
turning around (?)	'head' lopped off (?)
cardinal point (?)	end of old year (?)

ariki	Ga1-5	Ga1-13
king	d:o with head flat at the back and with 3 feathers in front	d:o with face like toki (?)
defines distance from winter solstice (?)	winter solstice (?)	d:o with creative force ahead (?)

vai		Aa2-37
'egg of light' (?)	d:o with 'yolk' (?)	developing a 'yolk' (?)
'sweet water' of the night (?)	'sweet water' of the day (?)	first day (?)

henua		Ga1-3
rectangular field (?)	d:o inundated (?)	sea (?)
period of 'land'	midnight (?)	period of 'sea' (?)