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2. A new generation is a 'multiplication' of the old one. The Taranaki storehouse (cfr at The Queen of Hearts, Kiore, Vero, and Camp 6) has a single 'egg' at the top:

There are 3 'fingers' at left in the roof and 4 at right (beyond the time when the single-toothed child has been born). These 'fingers' presumably are like the kai fingers in Gb8-15, illustrating the absence of light - the old ruler is dead.

The pair of pillars supporting the house has a central oblique 'ladder' with 6 steps, maybe representing the way up to climb for Sun.

In the rongorongo 'vocabulary' the sky (ragi) glyph type with no light (life) changes into vero:

ragi

vero
Vero

To throw, to hurl (a lance, a spear). This word was also used with the particle kua preposed: koía kua vero i te matá, he is the one who threw the obsidian [weapon]. Verovero, to throw, to hurl repeatedly, quickly (iterative of vero). Vanaga.

1. Arrow, dart, harpoon, lance, spear, nail, to lacerate, to transpierce (veo). P Mgv.: vero, to dart, to throw a lance, the tail; verovero, ray, beam, tentacle. Mq.: veó, dart, lance, harpoon, tail, horn. Ta.: vero, dart, lance. 2. To turn over face down. 3. Ta.: verovero, to twinkle like the stars. Ha.: welowelo, the light of a firebrand thrown into the air. 4. Mq.: veo, tenth month of the lunar year. Ha.: welo, a month (about April). Churchill.

Sa.: velo, to cast a spear or dart, to spear. To.: velo, to dart. Fu.: velo, velosi, to lance. Uvea: velo, to cast; impulse, incitement. Niuē: velo, to throw a spear or dart. Ma.: wero, to stab, to pierce, to spear. Ta.: vero, to dart or throw a spear. Mg.: vero, to pierce, to lance. Mgv.: vero, to lance, to throw a spear. Mq.: veo, to lance, to throw a spear. Churchill 2.

Instead of cutting off the neck by means of a curved metal blade the method for killing a king could be to use a straight wooden spear.

In the G text the malevolent cold ogre (Algol) evidently is at Gb8-12:

Gb8-11 (453) Gb8-12 Gb8-13
Menkar (453.7)   Algol (454.9)  

8 and 12 could refer to Moon (8) respectively to Sun (12), and 12 * 29½ + 100 = 454.

Another glyph of this type is Ga5-17:

19
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21

The central 'support' is taller and more powerful. Therefore this could be where the old king is being speared. Saturday at Ga5-18 has a dot in front and the henua is straight - possibly we should read a pair of such signs (also Ga5-20), each preceded by a kind of 'determinant'. 5 * 18 = 90 and 5 * 20 = 100.

The central mauga (Ga5-19) is a Sun-day and 51 * 9 = 459, perhaps alluding to Algenib in Perseus:

Gb8-14 Gb8-15 Gb8-16 Gb8-17 (459)
       Algenib (459.0)

5 (as in 'fire') is the number of the glyph line and 19 is the number of the period in the henua calendar. Counting with 'double fortnights', with 2 * 15 = 30 day periods, the last such in the 'year' must be shorter, because 12 * 15 = 180 < 365¼ / 2. But number 19 suggests 'triple-decades' with 3 * 10 = 30 days, and then the 19th such decade will be shorter than the preceding, because 18 * 10 = 180.

Is there a prominent star which we can correlate with the 19th henua period?

Ga5-17 is glyph number 128 (the 'reverse' of 8-12 at Algol) and 64 + 128 = 192:

Ga5-17 (*192) Ga5-18 Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21

The searched for star should rise around 192 - 47 = 145 (= 5 * 29) days later than Algol:

Menkar α Ceti 2.54 03º 54' N 03h 00m 45.7 453.7 453
Algol β Persei 2.09 40º 46' N 03h 05m 46.9 454.9 454¼
Algenib α Persei 1.79 49º 41' N 03h 21m 51.0 459.0 458¼
Alcyone η Tauri 2.85 23º 57' N 03h 45m 57.1 465.1 464¼
?       12h 37m 192 600  

The right ascension value to be ca 03h 05m + 4 * 145m = 185 + 580 = 765m.

192 /  365¼ * 1440 = 757m = 12h 37m, and the distance from Algol is 9h 32m or 572m = 145.1 days.

408 + 192 = 600.