Variant: rugby balls

·    Variants (2):

o A. Full:

§ Top: two touching, angled (SW to NE) “rugby balls”, optionally with left reinforcement of line or row of dots (or both)

§ Bottom: boulder-outline with a single, large indentation in the middle of the top

·      Cross hatched area slightly smaller than the outline.

·      Outer edge of cross hatched area optionally bold

o B. Reduced-1: top part only.

o C. Reduced-2: left or right half only (currently no examples). Perhaps this doesn’t exist, and only exists for ch’a.

·    Do not confuse the full forms of k’u and ch’a. They resemble one another because the bottom parts of both are identical. The difference is in the top part:

o k’u has two sloping “rugby balls”.

o ch’a has two circles, each with two scrolls / left-and-right “feelers”.

·    Do not confuse the reduced variant of k’u with one of the reduced variants of nu:

o k’u has a dotted line as the line reinforcement of the left edge.

o nu has a solid line reinforcement of the left edge.

·    Iconographic origin:

o AT-YT2021-lecture16.t0:02:09-02:16 Tokovinine explains that this represents two eggs in a nest. He says “k’u [? unclear] actually means egg or bird-egg”, but I’ve not been able to find a reference to this”. In AT-E1168-lecture18:10:01-10:23 he explains much the same, but adds that “… [in] some early forms, it’s more visually transparent, so the eggs are sort of in the middle of the nest. So: it’s a bird nest with eggs“.