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3. With the sun child arriving in a canoe after winter solstice, intending to rule the first half of the year, the overturned canoe in form of hare paega on Easter Island surely must be in the image of the second half of the year:

From its dark inside, at winter solstice, the newborn child will come out. The calendar of the night in Tahua could allude to this event:

Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45

The entrance is also the exit, presumably the midnight glyph Aa1-43. The sun child is in his canoe (Aa1-45). The two great toa (Aa1-42 and Aa1-44) are like Oka Piko. The fork (Y-sign) in toa glyphs may have been named okaoka:

Oka

1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables; used generally in the meaning of making plantations. 2. The four sideways poles supporting a hare paega. Okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly. Vanaga.

Digging stick, stake, joist; to prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate; kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka, a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick, to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.