Aa8-26 Aa8-27 Aa8-28 Aa8-29 Aa8-30 Aa8-31 Aa8-32 Aa8-33

Aa8-33 belongs to the glyph type hoea and when classifying glyphs I decided Ka3-14 was also a variant of hoea:

Ka3-14 Aa8-33

Whereas the 'fire fingers' are extended in Ka3-14 they are hidden inside the 'fist' in Aa8-33 - meaning that the 'fire' is only immanent as yet.

Therefore, when 'flames' are visualized in Aa8-30 it is because they are the last ones of the old fire - the 'fist' is 'quenching' the 'flames'. When Metoro said ka puhi i te ahi i te toga nui he presumably meant the old fire was extinguished. Puhi is to blow out equally well as to blow:

Puhi

1. To blow; to light a fire; to extinguish, to blow out; he-puhi te umu, to light the fire for the earth oven. 2. To fish for lobsters at night using a bait (but during the day one calls it hî); puhiga, night fishing spot. Vanaga.

To blow; puhi mai, to spring up; pupuhi, wind, fan, to blow, puffed up, to blow fresh, to ferment, to swell, to bloat, to spring out, to gush, yeast; pupuhi vai, syringe; pupuhi eve, squirt; pupuhi heenua, volley; pupuhi nunui, cannon; pupuhi nui, swivel gun; ahuahu pupuhi, amplitude; vai pupuhi, water which gushes forth; pupuhihia, to carry on the wind; hakapupuhi, to gush, leaven, volatilize; puhipuhi, to smoke, to smoke tobacco, a pipe. Churchill