The glyph type manu kake (ascending birds) could refer to the Gemini twins climbing up on dry land from the Milky Way (Ga3-1) or to their further ascending up to the sky in the claws of the Eagle (Gb5-9):
Notably both these manu kake glyphs are located in position 1 in their lines. The Sagitta (Arrow) constellation could have its name from the arrow of Castor, pars pro toto indicating how Castor was uplifted not in the claws but riding on the back of the Eagle:
Or possibly the arrow of Castor was aimed at his upside down father, to the Swan (Cygnus): "Gemini represents the twins Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux is the Latin form of his name); they were known to the Greeks as the Dioskouroi (Dioscuri in Latin), literally meaning ‘sons of Zeus’. However, mythologists disputed whether both really were sons of Zeus, because of the unusual circumstances of their birth. Their mother was Leda, Queen of Sparta, whom Zeus visited one day in the form of a swan (now represented by the constellation Cygnus). That same night she also slept with her husband, King Tyndareus. Both unions were fruitful, for Leda subsequently gave birth to four children. In the most commonly accepted version, Polydeuces and Helen (later to become famous as Helen of Troy) were children of Zeus, and hence immortal, while Castor and Clytemnestra were fathered by Tyndareus, and hence were mortal." (Ian Ridpath's internet site)
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