Variant: two eyeballs

·    Features – a rectangular, rotatable glyph (one axis much longer than the other), with:

o One “death eye” at each end. The “inside” edge of each death eye maybe:

§ Bolded (MC, K&H, TOK.p6.r3.c3, TOK.p6.r3.c4, MHD.22F.3, T106c, 0106st), or

§ Non-bolded (T106abd, MHD.22F.1&2).

o A sort of “twist” in the glyph, between the two death eyes.

Variant: eggs

·    Features:

o Two “rugby balls”, often at an angle (similar to the positioning of real rugby balls, in preparation for the kick).

o While the pedagogical sources give the rugby balls with a NE-SW orientation, MHD and Bonn give the opposite – NW-SE – orientation. Thompson gives both orientations.

·    Do not confuse this variant of nu with the visually very similar reduced form of k’u:

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

o The two elements of nu can be rounder whereas those of k’u are more egg-like (“rugby balls”) [only in the TOK example].

Variant: knot and tassels

·    Features – a vertically rectangular, non-rotatable glyph (vertical axis much longer than the horizontal one), with:

o A “death eye” at the top – the eye looking to the left.

o Two “tassel” elements at the bottom.

·    A subvariant of this (MC.p159.r5.c1.#4) is where there’s:

o An additional “bracket” between the death eye and the tassels, and

o An additional element above the death eye, consisting of:

§ A “left feeler” with its own “protector”.

§ (Perhaps) a repeat of this element, a little to the right and behind it (such that the “left feeler” in the second element is not visible). Alternatively, it could be interpreted as the first element having a further “partial protector” on the right of it.

Variant: boulder

·    Features:

o This is one of the boulder outline glyphs which can be very round, i.e., a circle (e.g., MC, K&H, K&L, MHD.XQ9.1), rather than the square with rounded corners, though the latter is also often the case.

o Optionally, four small- to medium-sized circles, one in each of the four corners – NW, NE, SW, SE (MC, K&H, K&L, MHD.XQ9.1).

§ When these circles are present on the perimeter, then there’s also a medium-sized circle in the centre of the glyph (small in the case of MHD.XQ9.1).

o There’s an X though the main part of the glyph, dividing the circle into 4 quadrants – N, S, E, W.

§ When there’s a circle in the centre of the glyph, then the X stops at the boundary of the circle and doesn’t go all the way to the centre of the glyph (MC, K&H, K&L, MHD.XQ9.1).

o Typically, the W and E quadrants are cross hatched / darkened, and the other two are not, though the opposite also occurs (LTI - Kimbell Panel F1b (bottom). (This part of the LTI - Kimbell Panel is, for unknown reasons, in “mirror image”, and so is read from right to left, making F1b (bottom) in the bottom left of the glyph-block.)

o Optionally, in the non-darkened quadrants, there’s either:

§ Two short, slightly diverging ticks, going radially out from the central circle, when such a circle is present (MC, K&H), or

§ Three or more small, non-touching dots, in a line or arc, in the middle of the quadrant, irrespective of whether or not there’s a central circle present (K&L, MHD.XQ9.2, 0592st, T592). There are typically three or four dots, but it can go up to even five dots (MHD.XQ9.2).

·    In LTI - Kimbell Panel F1, the “disharmonic” spelling cha-nu is probably to indicate the complex vowel of cha’an = “captor”, “master”, “guardian”.

·    Overall MHD statistics (2025-08-20) – seen from a search in MHD on “blcodes contains <XXX>”, where <XXX> is:

o 22F (“two eyeballs” variant): 136 hits. In theory, this includes the “rugby balls” subvariant (MHD.22F.4), but as the latter is codical-only, searching in Classic – Blocks won’t find any of these. That means that the statistics produced for 22F will be quite accurate.

o 3M9 (“knot and tassels” variant): 72 hits.

o XQ9 (“boulder” variant): 55 hits.

Variant: knot and tassels 3

·    FK.pdfp9.r3.c5 & KuppratApp list this as nu.

·    TOK.p9.r3.c2 has a similar looking glyph but views it as being a logogram NUUN / WAYIS.

·    It is very often an initial phonetic complement for the EG of Rio Azul, leading to some sources reading that logogram as NUUN or NU’UN. However, other sources restrict themselves to only saying that the logogram begins with ne- (the initial phonetic complement), without venturing an opinion on the sounds of the rest of the word.

Subvariants (2)

·    A. Symmetric:

o A knot in the middle.

o On each side of the knot, trailing, slightly curved, parallel bands.

o Each of the two groups of bands ending in two curved tassels.

·    B. Asymmetric:

o Top: two curved L-shaped bands, with two crossed bands between them; the crossed bands can optionally have spines or reinforcements.

o Middle: the two curved L-shaped bands end in a washer (optionally bold centre).

o Bottom: two or three spiral- (i.e., “feeler”) or leaf- or tooth-shaped tassels.

·    Curved: 2-3 dots on the inner side of the outer reinforcement. (What does this mean?)