Variant: iguana head

·    Features:

o An upturned (rotated) iguana head.

o Normally, an iguana head would face left and consist of:

§ A largish, round eye, with a protector over the upper half.

§ (Optionally) tiny dot for a nose hole.

§ A large mouth (= long, sinusoidal curve) with:

·      (Often) a jagged row of triangular teeth pointing downwards (hanging from the upper jaw and peeking out of the mouth).

·      (Optionally): vertical lines in between the teeth from the upper lip to the floor of the glyph.

§ A reptilian-spiral to the right of the mouth, curling inwards anticlockwise.

o Such an iguana-head is rotated 90 degrees clockwise, so that it faces upwards.

·    Do not confuse hu with SIH = “to be born”: they are to all intents and purposes identical, except that SIH has an arc of tiny touching dots around the face, absent in hu:

o The dots may range all the way from just in front of the face, to just under the chin and a bit of the head, just past the forehead, to half of the underside of the mouth and half the top of the head.

o However, they never go 3/4 around the glyph, from the entire underside of the mouth, face, and entire top of the head.

Variant: crest

·    MHD is one of the few standard sources which give a reading of hu for this glyph.

·    See the “crest” variant of wu for more information.