·     A. Full:

o Top (“crest”):

§ Two or three feelers with protectors:

·     The feelers can be:

o All left feelers (when there are two or three).

o A left and a right feeler (when there are two).

o A left and a right feeler with a middle, non-curved “feeler” (when there are three).

·     Each feeler has its own circle of tiny dots as protector, but in addition there can be an optional additional single-line protector over the tiny dot protectors – this single line can be:

o Just one protector for all the tiny dot protectors, or

o Individual protectors, one for each of the tiny dot protectors.

o Bottom (“boulder”):

§ Bold left wall, ceiling, and right wall.

§ In the middle:

·     2 vertical bars from ceiling to floor.

·     Crossed bands or JAL weaving, between the 2 vertical bars.

§ On both sides of the middle:

·     Many parallel horizontal ticks, each tick ending in a tiny dot.

·     This resembles the two combs of the double comb variant of sa, the difference being that:

o  In sa the tips of the combs don’t touch at the top (blocked by the two vertical bands), whereas in to, the top is a continuous bold ceiling.

o In sa the tips of the combs don’t touch at the bottom (blocked by the two vertical bands), whereas in to the question of their touching or not touching doesn’t arise, because the bolding of the two sides ends when the sides reach the bottom (i.e. the floor is non-bold).

·     B. Reduced to crest: just the “crest” of the full form.

·     C. Reduced to boulder: just the “boulder” of the full form.

Further notes:

·     I seem to vaguely recall that Tokovinine explains in one of his lectures (lost reference) that the “protected feeler” elements at the top are related to flames and that the full variant of to is closely related (iconographically speaking) to the full variant of K’AHK’ – i.e. the boulder-shaped element below the “protected feelers” / flames in both cases are a “container” from which the flames emerge.

·     Do not confuse the “boulder-only” reduced variant of to with:

o tz’i: tz’i has no crossed bands in the centre, whereas to does.

o The “two-comb” full variant of sa: to has crossed bands in the middle (and the column bands do not reach all the way to the top (i.e. the bold ceiling continues through the whole of the top), whereas sa never has crossed bands, and has a break in the bold ceiling caused by the double vertical bars.