We are now prepared to take a closer look at Bb12-26:

I believe vae in Bb12-26 is a final glyph and will argue for that below. In the table above I have added new ordinal numbers beyond vae.

Metoro said e tagata vae oho, which possibly means 'a leg for going away':

Oho 1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga. 1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.

I am influenced by Aa1-15, which very well could illustrated how the old year goes away, followed by a little gap and the arrival of the new 'fire':

Ordinal number 15 indicates 'full moon', and the Hawaiians wished new year would begin at that time:

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu) ...

The two 'eyes' in Aa1-15 probably correspond to the two 'eyes' in Pb2-34, light has returned:

Pb2-16	Pb2-17	Pb2-18	Pb2-19	Pb2-20	Pb2-21	Pb2-22
Pb2-23	Pb2-24	Pb2-25	Pb2-26	Pb2-27	Pb2-28	Pb2-29
Pb2-30	Pb2-31	Pb2-32	Pb2-33	Pb2-34

45 in Bb12-45, the last glyph in the text, is henua ora (the 'recycling station'). My ordinal number system assigned 19 (death of sun) to the glyph. The earlier henua ora, Bb12-10, also gives a 'farewell signal' (by way of 10).

In Pb2-26 we have the same ordinal number as in Bb12-26. Pb2-26 presumably shows a picture of a vanished old 'mauga'. He has left (gone away).

My idea is, then, that vae of the type illustrated in Aa1-15 and Bb12-26 (with a straight, sloping down top) neither tells about a 'full stop' nor of 'going ahead'. Instead vae has an intermediate meaning of 'going away'.

Some support for this is given also at the end of the text in H:

Comparing the end of the H text with the first 26 glyphs of line Bb12 I arrive at the conclusion that the missing destroyed glyph (number *50) could have been *vae. If so, then the meaning of 'going away' is reasonable.

Let us compare H and B. I have already done that, when documenting in the 'text' department of this site what once (at an early stage) appeared to me as probable parallel texts:

No special thought about vae was in my mind at that time. Probably I coordinated Bb12-24 with Hb12-47 + Hb12-49 because of the parallel I had found between Bb12-23 and Hb12-44--45. Both Bb12-23 and Bb12-24 correspond to two glyphs in H.

Whether there once was a final glyph Hb12-50 or not - and even if there once was a glyph number 50 which was of another type than vae - the final glyph of H could have been chosen by the creator of the text to be vae glyph.