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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:

lean
Ga2-14 Ga3-23 Ga7-16 (186) Gb2-10
fat
Gb6-13 Gb7-13 Gb7-16 (427) Gb6-11

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):

Pb10-32 Pb10-33 Pb10-34 Pb10-35 Pb10-36 Pb10-37 Pb10-38