This odd and unusual glyph type does not appear directly in Tahua. However, Aa4-58 and Aa4-60 together seem to be GD81:
The pair obviously belong together. Two 'eyes' appear in Aa4-60 and 6 marks are located at the top of its egg-shaped 'head', while there is only one 'eye' and 5 marks on Aa4-58. In Aa4-58 we have two downward sloping 'arms'. The bottom parts are mirror images (more or less so) of each other, and together Aa4-58 and Aa4-60 contain most of the signs in the 'archetype' of GD81. Even the two 'balls' (like 'fists') have their correspondences - one at the 'knee' at left in Aa4-58 and one at the 'knee' at right in Aa4-60. The quartet Aa5-58, -60, -65 and -67
maybe contains an allusion in form of the 'uplifted arms' which we can see in Ba6-11 (a glyph which definitely belongs to GD81):
Although it may be rather farfetched, I have included the glyph quartet as GD81. After all, there are so very few examples (anywhere among the rongorongo texts) of glyphs of the GD81 type. A hyperlink leads to GD12, because there may be other glyphs hiding there with GD81 signs on them.
Aruku Kurenga (B) Only the already mentioned Ba6-11 is found:
Mamari (C) The fists in Ca3-14 maybe allude to GD81:
A 3rd 'fist' just being born may correspond to the 'eye' in Ba6-11.
Échancrée (D) No glyphs are found.
Keiti (E) No glyphs are found.
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. |
