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Evidence indicates that Te Pou and Te Pau are stations in the yearly cycle of the sun at which 'house posts for the sky house' are set in place:

A new little sun appears to be born, and in the beginning he is still under the rule of the moon.
Aa1-1 Aa1-2
Aa1-3 Aa1-4 Aa1-5 Aa1-6 Aa1-7 Aa1-8 Aa1-9
Sky proppers The sky roof is being raised higher and higher
Summer solstice, and later the death of old sun.
Aa1-10 Aa1-11 Aa1-12

When (according to Manuscript E) the explorers 'went back in time' to the beginning of the dark winter season, it may have been in order to commence at the same point in time as the calendar.