3. One of the very first glyph types I understood was kai:
The hand gesture of this person who is sitting down with open mouth means 'to eat' (kai). I saw that it was enough to show only the open mouth and the hand, for instance in these 3 glyphs in the text of H:
They form part of a 'calendar for the daylight', and it is the young a.m. Sun who is eating (we can see his flames like a skirt), and he is 'fully grown' (tagata) in Ha6-2 (where 6 * 2 = 12). I spent much time speculating whatever he could be eating in order to grow, before I realized that the mouth-and-hand sign probably simply meant 'to grow'. If we must know what he is eating, then we should take Ogotemmêli for help: 'The rays drink up the little waters of the earth, the shallow pools, making them rise, and then descend again in rain.' |
