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I suggest the constellations in Gb5-12 respectively in Hb9-51--52 are to be read as Haga Te Pau, the bay in which the explorers under Ira anchored (during the darkest time of the year):

Gb5-12 Hb9-51 Hb9-52
Haga Te Pau Haga Te Pau

The strange bulbous leg is a clubfoot (va'e pau):

 

Pau

1. To run out (food, water): ekó pau te kai, te vai, is said when there is an abundance of food or water, and there is no fear of running out. Puna pau, a small natural well near the quarry where the 'hats' (pukao) were made; it was so called because only a little water could be drawn from it every day and it ran dry very soon. 2. Va'e pau, clubfoot. Paupau:  Curved. Vanaga.

1. Hakapau, to pierce (cf. takapau, to thrust into). Pau.: pau, a cut, a wound, bruised, black and blue. 2. Resin. Mq.: epau, resin. Ta.: tepau, gum, pitch, resin. (Paupau) Hakapaupau, grimace, ironry, to grin. 3. Paura (powder), gunpowder. 4. Pau.: paupau, breathless. Ta.: paupau, id. 5. Ta.: pau, consumed, expended. Sa.: pau, to come to an end. Ma.: pau, finished. 6. Ta.: pau, to wet one another. Mq.: pau, to moisten. Churchill.

Pau also means to 'run out', as for instance in the idea that time has run out. The season has finished (pau).

There is a slightly different meaning in Hb9-51--52 compared with Gb5-12. In Hb9-52 va'e pau is at left, probably meaning 'in the past', while in Gb5-12 va'e pae is at right, probably meaning 'in front of us' (present). Maybe the message is that the week ended (in a way) already with Friday, the 6th day.