1. I have not as yet managed to 'prove' that Te Pei is correlated with glyph line Gb1, and I remember (cfr at Ure Honu): ... On other Polynesian islands, pei (or pehi) is the name of a game of skill that involves throwing. In MAO. it can mean 'earth; clump of earth', which may be a possible translation when there is talk of a 'clump of earth as residence' (ko te pei te nohonga) or of 'Te Pei', which can be lost and found. Te Pei is also the name of a place on the southern shore of Easter Island. The six references in the text do not allow for a general definition, but perhaps an expression from Mangaia can provide some insight: 'Hina alone keeps seven, yes eight balls in motion' (Pei aea i te pei itu, i te pei varu, é Ina é, Tregear 1891:596). Here an outstanding achievement is characterized by the ability to extend control beyond seven to eight ... If the difficulty involves coordinating a Moon calendar with the year of Sun, then the 7 balls - yes 8 balls - could refer to the planets, those who move along the ecliptic. For us the difficulty is something else, viz. how to create a semblance of order ('dharma') in the webs of correspondences. There are several threads which we need to follow in parallel. I once hesitated at the rima aueue sign - should I decide to regard it just as an adjunct or should I define it to be a glyph type? In the latter case I needed an example of a simple such glyph with no other disturbing sign, and such rima aueue glyphs are rare. In G for instance these glyphs are not simple:
When I classified glyphs according to type my goal was to create a system of 'boxes', one for each glyph type, so that it would be easy to later on compare glyphs of a similar nature. But for practical reasons I could not put a complex glyph in all the places which its several signs could have motivated me. Those above I saw primarily as tagata respectively as ihe tau. In the end, however, I found reason enough to also regard rima auaue as a type of glyph and to put those 4 above also in that 'box':
To limit the volume of my glyph catalogue I thought it not necessary to list all rima aueue glyphs in my rima aueue box - if for example I would like to compare Gb8-19 with other similar glyphs I would hardly begin by searching at rima aueue but instead I would look in the box for ihe tau. I used the same argument also at other complex glyphs - it would be enough to find them in one of the possible 'boxes'. Often, though, I put complex glyphs in more than one 'box'. Gb2-16 is a complex glyph and I saw it primarily as an example of pu, and Gb6-3 could be a variant of kava. I perceived signs of rima aueue in them too, but I did not list them in that 'box'. Yet, the adjuncts in Gb2-16 motivated me to also put the glyph in the boxes for poporo and hua poporo, and likewise to put Gb6-3 also in the box for nuku:
The 4 inside 'feathers' at left in Gb2-16 and the 7 + 6 'feathers' in Gb6-3 is also a type of sign, but I had no box for such 'feather' marks. Thus we can regard these 6 glyphs as rima aueue glyphs, and I can find no more such in the G text:
I will now add Gb2-16 and Gb6-3 in my box for rima aueue. I need to work creatively and then it is not only permitted but even necessary to add - in contrast to our glorified modern method of thinking, viz. to analyze (i.e. to step by step eliminate, subtract). |
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