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The double-headed hakaturou glyph Eb8-25 (with 'Monday-Wednesday beak' at right) agrees with how the last glyph on side b of Tahua (Ab8-84) is drawn. At the tara part in this dictionary pito was discussed:
 

 We have established a probable connection between the standard tara glyph (with a prominent tail) and winter solstice. In Tahua there are two glyphs of this kind, Ab7-37 and Ab8-69, the first of which is among the winter solstice glyphs: 

Ab7-33

Ab7-34

Ab7-35

Ab7-36

Ab7-37

Ab7-38

Ab7-39

Ab8-69 is located even further towards the end of side b (which occurs at Ab8-84), having a position 26 glyphs ahead of the 'navel' (pito): 

25

14

Ab8-42

Ab8-43

Ab8-69

Ab8-84

42 = 26 + 16

26

16

Ab8-69 is drawn identical with Ab7-37, i.e. the meaning must be identical too.

The 'navel of the island' (te pito o te henua, 'centre of the world') must be on the western coast. The 29th kuhane station (alluding to the 29th black night of the moon) she named 'Te Pito O Te Kainga A Hau Maka O Hiva' (possibly indicating that the entire island lay in darkness and that therefore no further geographical location could be pinpointed). 

Ab8-56 and Ab8-58 also show variants of hakaturou:

Ab8-55

Ab8-56

Ab8-57

Ab8-58

Ab8-59

Ab8-60

13

14

15

16

17

18

Ab8-79

Ab8-80

Ab8-81

Ab8-82

Ab8-83

Ab8-84

37

38

39

40

41

42

Ordinal numbers counted from Ab8-43 (o te pito motu).