1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga.

Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill.

Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill.

H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom (pōule) appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe.

However, not in any of the cases at ure in the texts which Metoro read for Bishop Jaussen did he mention roto. Furthermore, he said ure only 3 times out of the total of the 29 such signs in these texts (and not even once at any of my other glyph types). He never said ureure:

... The most important of all drums, he said, was the armpit drum. The Nummo made it. It consists of two hemispherical wooden cups connected through their centres by a slender cylinder. It is like an hour-glass with a very long narrow neck. With this instrument tucked between his left arm and armpit, the drummer, by pressing on the hollow structure of thin wood, can tighten or relax the tension on the skins and so modify the tone.

'The Nummo made it. He made a picture of it with his fingers, as children do today in games with string.' Holding his hands apart, he passed a thread ten times round each of the four fingers, but not the thumb. He thus had forty loops on each hand, making eighty threads in all, which, he pointed out, was also the number of teeth of his jaws. The palms of his hands represented the skins of the drum, and thus to play on the drum was, symbolically, to play on the hands of the Nummo. But what do they represent?

Cupping his two hands behind his ears, Ogotemmêli explained that the spirit had no external ears but only auditory holes. 'His hands serve for ears,' he said; 'to enable him to hear he always holds them on each side of his head. To tap the drum is to tap the Nummo's palms, to tap, that is, his ears.'

Holding before him the web of threads which represented a weft, the Spirit with his tongue interlaced them with a kind of endless chain made of a thin strip of copper. He coiled this in a spiral of eighty turns, and throughout the process he spoke as he had done when teaching the art of weaving. But what he said was new. It was the third Word, which he was revealing to men ...

I will here take the opportunity to enumerate the 15 glyphs at which Metoro did say roto (although none of them has any evident ure sign). I guess such a list can be of use later on:


Aa5-7	Aa5-69
tona hura i roto* i te pa*	ko te tagata - ka he i to pure - kua hoko ia - ki roto* to pure - kua here ia kua oho*


Ca2-11	Ca7-24
tagata oho ki roto* o to vai*	te hare pure e tagata noho ki roto


Cb1-1	Cb1-2	Cb2-9	Cb2-10	Cb2-11	Cb11-14
E tupu - ki roto		moe te goe - ka moe i roto			tagata ka tomo i roto* - i tona mea*


Ea1-13	Ea1-21	Ea2-10	Ea9-8
kua noho i roto* i to vai*	ka oho koe - ki roto* o te hare pure*	e tagata oho era - ki roto* o to vai e*	tere nehe ki roto

Eb6-25

e vaka kagore te kai o roto

In G the first ure is Ga8-17 and the last in Gb8-24:

220		9	235		6
	Ga8-17 (221)			Gb8-24 (466)

Excepting Ga8-17 all ure are on side b, and I have listed 40 such on side b. 472 - 220 = 252 = 7 * 36 = 12 * 21. The first 7 glyph lines has no ure, but all the remaining have:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
side a	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	x
side b	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

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