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GD12

As GD12 are counted also glyphs which seem to depict fire (rather than the sun itself), e.g. Aa3-35 and Aa8-30:

Even when we imagine us to see a 'sun' flower, e.g. in Aa1-60 and Ab2-17, the glyph is classified as GD12:

The possible meaning of a glyph must not interfere with its classification.

When there are no 'flames', however, the glyph does not belong to GD12 - even though the meaning might be to show the disc of the sun (or the bud of a flower), e.g. as in Ab6-21:
A glyph belonging to another GD may show what evidently looks like flames, e.g. Aa4-13 (GD17):

In this example I have considered the signs of GD12 to be so strong as to necessitate a classfication as both GD12 and GD17.
Other difficult to classify examples are Ab4-38 (GD15) and Ab8-14 (GD11):

I have not included them, because I cannot find any evidence of GD12 being present. The flames of the sun must be distinguished from other similar signs.

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

In Ba6-17 we can see a person sitting with 'fire' in his hand - or is it a mirrror?

Bb1-6 has the 'sun disc' even less distinct:

The beautiful Ba7-12 exhibits a double sun as if seen mirrored in the sea:

 

Mamari (C)

Cb3-17 is classified as GD12 (in addition to GD37), but not the similar Cb3-16, -18 and -19:

      

 

Échancrée (D)

Db2-105 clearly has the sun at left, like the head of some kind of snake:

 

Keiti (E)

Eb5-23 looks insteresting, it has the top flame of the sun converted into GD22:

 

The rest of the texts

The texts above have been used as a kind of 'test ground' to see if the definitions could be used.

For the rest of the texts the same principles have been used, although less stringently. The experiences gained have been relied upon rather than what is written above about what characterizes the glyph type.

There may be a few extra glyph added, which would not have been so with a strict application of the written definitions. On the other hand there has been no attempt to ignore glyphs which according to the written definitions ought to belong to the glyph type.