We do not know if the rongorongo texts used the haga rave type of glyphs to indicate such haga 'anchorage places' as apparently was connected with a few of the kuhane stations the explorers visited on their journey around the island. In the Mamari moon calendar the full moon night (Omotohi) has no haga rave sign. Instead we can see what looks like a 'broken stick':
A broken stick means the branch was old and dry, no longer soft and pliant in the way haga rave glyphs seem to illustrate. If there was an ordered system, which is fairly certain, we can conclude that the 'anchorage places' for the moon on her journey from west to east were thought of as qualitatively opposite to the haga rave stations for the sun. In all aspects the moon is the mirror image of the sun. The dream soul (kuhane) of Hau Maka was his female (moon) side, and she happened to break a branch in the season when winter was giving way to summer, therefore presumably to be regarded as a cardinal point for the moon. 7 * 24 = 168 = 2 * 84, a fact which alludes to the end of the winter 'half' of the year, the time when sun 'lives' north of the equator and the light from the moon is more important than when sun is 'present'. |