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Rh roughly indicates the stages of their life; for these stages in practice merge into one another.

The terms used in this table will be found to overlap in some instances. Thus a very small infant may be referred to as waywaya or pwapwawa indiscriminately, but only the former term as a rule would be used in speaking of a fœtus or referring to the pre-incarnated children from Tuma. Again, you might call a few months old child either gwadi or pwapwawa, but the latter term would be but seldom used except for a very small baby. The term gwadi moreover can be used generically, as "child" in English, to denote anything from a fœtus to a young boy or girl. Thus, it will be seen that two terms may encroach on each other's field of meaning, but only Rh