4. In the view of Hevelius the Scorpion has his tail curved at right, which is the opposite to what we can see in the sky: The reason is that Hevelius had his perspective from the outside of our star globe, with right ascension rising towards the right. His east is at right. In G right ascension is also rising towards the right. The text is flowing towards the east and therefore we can never see a mago glyph with tail at left:
In the whole corpus of rongorongo texts there is only one exampel of a reversed mago (and typically it is in the non-orthodox P text):
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