Hau = thread, line, string, ribbon, is the name of the fibres of the hauhau tree (Triumfetta semitriloba), formerly used to make twine, cloth, etc. However, several other - seemingly unconnected - meanings also adher to the word (e.g. government, contribute, blow freshly, dew).

Tea = light, fair, whitish; or to rise (of the moon, the stars); or to be proud, vain etc.

1. The beams of the sun which enlighten our world:

presumably form the bottom part of the hau tea glyph type. This way of illustrating - with the rays depicted as straight lines - is the same as in the petroglyphs below (ref. Heyerdahl 3):

The vertical sun rays are also seen on the upper part of an example of ao:

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"A large portion of the upper blade, corresponding to the broad and tall forehead, is covered by dense rows of vertically painted stripes that may indicate hair although in some specimens they definitely assume the aspects of a feather-crown of the type common in aboriginal Easter Island." (Heyerdahl 3)