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The parallel in R is somewhat more difficult to find. Withouth the glyphs arriving immediately earlier it would indeed be most difficult. In A there is a double representation of what in R is only one set (Ra1-115--118):

Ra1-114 Ra1-115 Ra1-116 Ra1-117 Ra1-118
Aa5-57 Aa5-57 Aa5-58 Aa5-59 Aa5-60 Aa5-61 Aa5-62
Aa5-63 Aa5-64 Aa5-64 Aa5-65 Aa5-66 Aa5-67
...
Ra1-119 Ra1-120 Ra1-121 Ra1-122 Ra1-201 Ra1-202
Bb8-33 Bb8-34 Bb8-35 Aa5-71 Aa5-72 Aa5-73

To make comparisons more easy I have fetched the first three glyphs from B and the last three from A. We should notice how pure in A and B is another glyph type (haga rave) in R - there are no pure glyphs in R. The strange glyph Ra1-119 may be damaged. But it could also have been drawn as we see it - to emphasize its 'ghostly character'. The glyph type in A and B has been labelled rona by me, because Metoro used that word a few times.

Rona

Figure made of wood, or stone, or painted, representing a bird, a birdman, a lizard, etc. Vanaga.

Drawing, traction. Pau.: ronarona, to pull one another about. Churchill.

While the rongorongo signs (rona) are generally 'carved out, incised' (motu), ta implies an incision ('cutting, beating') as well as the process of applying signs to the surface with the aid of a dye ... Barthel 2.

An artificial figure ('figure made of wood' etc) is no real person.