A tail means the end, and vaero is a picture of a tail. Although vaero means the tail of a bird it is often used in rongorongo for the sign at the end of a fish or as the whole fish:
At the end of a season a new season must begin, which could explain why vaero is also a word for the antenna of a lobster (vaero ura) or for a head ornament (hauvaero). By way of a thorough investigation of the beginning of side a of Tahua it has been possible to identify a structure which evidently depicts how sun light during a period is totally absent (in the 'primal embrace' between heaven and earth):
Then follows a description of how sky and earth are breaking apart (opening up) to let in light. The first sign of it is a kara etahi (bird with only one 'wing') and he seems to be the one who is responsible:
Birds have no arms and the single wing of kara etahi glyphs therefore should correspond to a single 'arm'. The right part in Aa2-45 has a vaero sign as its essential element, and the sign has been turned upside down (compared with how it looks in Ea4-32) - the 'tail of the dark fish' time has ended. We should remember the seasonal changes announced by The Shark (Te Mago), the monster which Maui had speared and hurled into the sky: ... 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 ... At Ea4-32 Metoro said ravaraga ika, possibly meaning that the time when light had been 'held imprisoned' (raga) was over (rava). His celestial frame of reference is clear from his comments at the mago glyphs Ea6-22 and Ea6-24 - the Milky Way is Go'e in the Easter Island dialect:
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