This complex glyph has three main parts: At left something looking like 'maunga', in the middle (connected with an undulating limb) a pole or staff with feathers or something similar attached and to the right a person with left hand bent towards the head. Searching in Keiti for similar glyphs I found:
Searching in other rongorongo texts I found:
And my intuition tells me that the following also could be relevant:
Adding the 'nut' in Ca1-26 to 'maunga' we get a type of glyph as in the cited Keiti glyph sequences. Furthermore, the 'maunga' might be explained as a picture based on a fish, a notion suggested in Ea6-37:
(By the way, I guess the wavy glyph Ea7-2 could mean the waves of the ocean.) |