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The first pages of haś ke:

 

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. There is some similarity between haś ke and haś, but none between between haś ke and mea ke:

haś ke haś mea ke

While haś looks like a kind of bough with 'feathers' haś ke seems to be a kind of beast:

Gb6-24 I12-74 Bb1-11 Hb9-25

 

2. Probably 'feathers' indicate 'fire' or 'light', and in Monday according to H the pair of haś ke glyphs could illustrate the illuminated crescents of waxing respectively waning moon:

Hb9-22 Hb9-23 Hb9-24 Hb9-25 Hb9-26 Hb9-27 Hb9-28 Hb9-29

In the parallel P text the creator has instead used mago glyphs:

Pb10-32 Pb10-33 Pb10-34 Pb10-35 Pb10-36 Pb10-37 Pb10-38

But that is no great mystery, because there is no hau glyph and the glyph line is b10, i.e. the end is near, or koke-na-make as the Hawaiians said:

... Whereas, over the next two days, Lono plays the part of the sacrifice. The Makahiki effigy is dismantled and hidden away in a rite watched over by the king's 'living god', Kahoali'i or 'The-Companion-of-the-King', the one who is also known as 'Death-is-Near' (Koke-na-make) ...

 
 

3. There are only a few haś ke (GD82) glyphs in the catalogue, and I feel inclined to add for instance the following glyphs fetched from hįu:

Ab4-12 Ab6-15 Ab6-16 Ab6-17 Ab6-23

Although the characters in these 5 glyphs are more or less human in appearance, I have chosen to use a definition based on humans, gods, and beasts on one hand (haś ke), and boughs, branches, and other immobile entities on the other (haś). There are no other haś ke glyphs in Tahua than those above.

As to the text of B I have not found any more haś ke glyphs than the one already mentioned:

Bb1-11

The single example of haś ke from Mamari (Ca13-14, where 13 * 14 = 182) should not be removed although it hardly gives the impression of an entity capable of moving ('living'):

Ca13-14 mauga haś

The right part is a sign of mauga (according to my definition) - it has 'feathers' on both sides (5 + 7 = 12) and therefore cannot be a haś sign. The left part of the glyph has also 'feathers' on both sides (4 + 4 = 8, i.e. 20 in all for the glyph), but on the inside of the oval there are no such. It must be a haś sign by force of the oval variant of haś.

But I wish to add the following triplet as haś ke:

Ca6-7 Ca6-8 Ca6-9
etoru kiori

On the other hand, the triplet below belongs to haś and not to haś ke:

Cb10-9 Cb10-10 Cb10-11

The 'knee' is not enough of a sign to convince me of mobility, I believe it is rather a sign of a 'root'. Although in kai glyphs such 'roots' do appear in a few cases they are presumably added to the basic kai sign, e.g.:

Bb7-16 Ea9-20 *Kb1-22

 
 

4. The distinction I have drawn between 'living' (capable of movement) entitities (haś ke) and immobile ones (like trees) could in C coincide with a distinction between the front side and the back side of the tablet:

haś ke Ca6-7 Ca6-8 Ca6-9
haś Cb10-9 Cb10-10 Cb10-11

The winter season is opposite in character to the lively spring time. Therefore haś ke glyphs could have a tendency to appear on the front side of the year.

With 14 glyph lines on both sides of the tablet the ordinal number of line Cb10 becomes 24, and 24 - 6 = 18 or half 36(0). Or maybe rather = 360 / 20 and indicating a 'greater 18' season.

Metoro's triplet of 'kiori' (not kiore) for Ca6-7--9 could refer to Spring Sun, 'eating' for 3 periods. If so, then it is not astonishing to find a haś triplet half a year later. Haś glyphs presuambly illustrate the path of a luminary all the way to its end point.

There are 7 + 7 + 6  'feathers' in the first triplet and 14 + 14 + 11 in the second. 14 = 2 * 7, but instead of 2 * 6 = 12 there are only 11 'feathers' in Cb10-11 (where 11 is also the number of the glyph in the line). Moon has 2 glyphs (Ca6-7--8 respectively Cb10-9--10) but Sun has only 1 'limb', and furthermore he is 'cut short' at his end in order to enable 'one more' to arrive - there can be only 1 Sun at a time.

If my guess is correct, then the haś ke glyph type should be regarded as related to haś and my label haś ke would be appropriate - the opposite of haś and a sign of the luminary rising rather than going down.