The figure at left presumably is a moko (= 'lizard'), i.e.
character GD87. This character always
seems to have a round stomach, presumably illustrating the state of
pregnancy.
Metoro surely saw a rounded stomach and he used the word moko
at these glyphs:
Jaussen (according to Barthel): "A une certaine saison, on amassait des vivres, on faisait fête On emmaillotait un corail, pierre de défunt lezard, on l'enterrait, tanu. Cette cérémonie était un point de départ pour beacoup d'affaires, notamment de vacances pour le chant des tablettes ou de la priére, tanu i te tau moko o tana pure, enterrer la pierre sépulcrale de lézard de sa prière." The right part of our glyph above is similar in its overall general shape to Aa8-47 and Aa8-49 and, I believe, that Metoro saw the elements of these glyphs as stones (tau). The Mangaians flew three kinds of kites and one had three feathers, viz. Orion's Belt. On Rapa Nui (Easter Island) the Belt of Orion was named Tautoru (three stones). The right part of the glyph above also reminds me of the left part of one of the glyphs in Mamari, viz. Ca7-1. Moreover, there are also:
Are these special 'henua' corresponding to the special 'half a canoes' in Sb2-1 and Sb2-7?
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