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GD57

GD57 must be held separated from GD33 and GD49:

  

Hyperlinks lead from GD57 to GD33 and GD49.

It is only seldom that GD57 appears as a separate glyph. Instead it is an element in mixed glyphs, as in Aa6-78 (GD37) and Ab7-41 (GD45):

  

The 'knee' is mostly there but it may be transformed into an undulation instead - cfr Aa6-78.

The undulation possibly is indicating a correlation with the type of undulation sometimes found in GD34:

  

Mostly the number of knees / undulations is just one, but we can see two in e.g. Aa4-37 (GD37), Aa5-20 (GD45) and Aa4-8 (GD56):

     

Undulations possibly suggesting GD57 appear in other glyph types too, as those in the shape of the 'body' of Aa3-42 (GD54):

I have, however, not found reason enough to include Aa3-42 and other glyphs with different kinds of undulations also as GD57. In GD11, for example, there are glyphs with undulating wings, e.g. Aa4-56:

The problem of how to regard undulations is a matter which rather should be further discussed in determining the classification of GD79 glyphs.

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

In Bb2-21 and Bb4-37 we find undulations emanating from the thumb:

  

It could well be argued that the glyphs therefore should be classified as GD72, but I have decided to refrain from doing so and keep the glyph (and similar ones) only here. Cfr also the stylized hand (Y-form) with undulations flowing out in Aa4-8 above.

In Bb5-11 and Bb4-38 the emanation instead is from an 'eye':

  

Ba7-16 and Bb7-5 are odd marginal cases:

  

 

Mamari (C)

In the moon calendar the emanation seems to arrive from one of the flames of the sun, e.g. Ca8-7 and Ca7-20:

  

Strange are Ca7-1 and Ca7-21 (both also in the moon calendar):

  

 

Échancrée (D)

Db5-103 is an unusual composition:

Keiti (E)

Ea2-28 exhibits, in the middle, GD57 like a snake standing on its tail end:

 

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.