Looking again at the 9 vaero glyphs on side a of Tahua we can recognize the pattern 1 + 2 also in line a3, while it is reversed in line a5:
The fishlike vaero in Aa3-18 has its tail open 'in front', though, while the following 2 have their tails oriented backwards. In line a5 the distinction between Aa5-34 and the other 2 lies in the henua sign, not in the vaero sign. And the 3 glyphs are located close together. The strangely drawn triplet of vaero signs are hanging down from vertical lines which presumably signify 'strings of measurement'. We will therefore try to measure where they fit in the patterns discovered so far. It should be noticed that the first 4 glyphs (Aa2-14, Aa2-18, Aa2-45, and Aa3-18) are attatched not to 'strings' but to 'branches'. Aa3-22 and Aa3-28 are exhibiting a medium variant which can either be read as 'thin branch' or 'thick thread'. |
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