2. The glyph type vaero does not look like a spear or ray: It has 2 points instead of 1:
On Mangareva tao means a lance or spear. The rhomb in the center of a vaero sign possibly refers to the season beyond midsummer, the 2nd part of the year. ... In the island of Pukapuka Te Mango, the Shark, was applied to the long dark rift which divides the Milky Way from Scorpius to Cygnus. They declared that the 'shark of winter' had its head to the south and the 'shark of summer' had its head to the north, referring to the seasonal change in the position of the constellation. This, they said, was the monster which Maui speared and hurled high into the sky and they pointed out a small triangular patch of dark nebulosity near Scorpius as te tao, the spear with which Maui had performed his prodigious feat. In the Society Islands there were two distinct names for the rift, Vero-nu'u, Pierce-the-earth, and Vero-ra'i, Pierce-the-sky, the names of the two great wooden spears of Tane ... The season of sky could be spring and the season of earth autumn. Up in spring and down in autumn. I guess vaero could refer to one of these wooden spears of Tane, and more specifically to Vero-nu'u, because I happened to notice that the only vaero glyph in G has a nuku sign at left::
Nuku is characterized by no arms (rima) - the spring 'fire' has left. Yet, in Ga4-18 it is nuku who is at left. 4 * 18 = 72 = 2 * 36 possibly can be regarded as 2 'points' (or legs). The vero glyph type could then be Vero-ra'i, with one point (limb) up instead of two down:
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