Suggestion: The Polynesian obsession with canoes makes it probable that they used the similarity between a canoe and a chief here too. The swiftly moving red morning sun I believe is pictured as vai-ora-a-Tane by way of the glyph
and this glyph might have been constructed as a compound. The four (two in rangi) signs like shark-fins could be seen as flames of a sun. But I have another idea, too, for explanation of which I need a new page. |