8. The ceremonial staff named ua has a face as if compressed from above:
The horizontal mouth and the ridges across its head accentuates this impression. There are no Sun symbols visible in the hanging ears, only holes. The pupils are large, as they are when light is absent or poor. The picture comes from Thor Heyerdahl's The Art of Easter Island. On the back side of the head the same face is repeated, i.e. there is a double set of grooves, one on each side. If the ua glyph type exhibits the arching ridges on the head of a ua staff, then we can see both sides at once. Only three ridges are drawn, but they can represent all the 'veins', uaua. Rain (ûa) creates furrows in the earth. |
