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GD77

The characteristic features of GD77 glyphs are feet forward although the body and head are seen sideways, with one wing visible behind the back.

Glyphs of this kind are not frequent. In Tahua there are just three of them, Aa2-33, Aa5-10 and Ab7-28:

     

GD23 and GD42 also have one wing seen behind the back, but they have their feet sideways:

  

GD42 has a characteristic 'knee', while GD23 often has 'tail feathers'. The heads of GD23, GD42 and GD77 also (normally) have the characteristic different features seen above.

However, there are difficulties anyhow. In GD11 there are birds which resemble GD77 birds, e.g. Aa5-9, Ab6-37 and Ab7-29:

     

They are not frequent and they may very well belong to the same 'species' as GD77, which indicates that my classification is artificial rather than following the ideas of the rongorongo creators.

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

There are just two glyphs in Aruku Kurenga belonging to GD77, viz. Ba9-8 and Bb8-35, and both have bent necks indicating GD54 (where they also are registered):

  

 

Mamari (C)

Three glyphs, Ca10-26, Ca11-18 and Ca12-4, belong to GD77:

     

 

Échancrée (D)

No glyphs are found.

 

Keiti (E)

Ea6-9 and Eb4-24 are the only GD77 glyphs in E:

  

 

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.