The first moe glyph which we ought to consider is that in Sunday:
The week belongs to the moon, there are 4 weeks in a 28-day month. The domain of the moon is the dark time, the night, and the henua glyphs at the beginning of the days of the week have lines across to indicate this fact. Sun cannot be seen during the night. But the glyphs for Sunday are drawn with circumferences which are closed, they do not illustrate 'ghosts' (unseen abstractions). Sun is real. He is on the other side of the earth. At first glance moe in Hb9-21 could be understood as the end of Sunday night. However, the neck is vertical and straight, which here should be interpreted to mean that the morning light is beginning to lift the sky-roof up. The stance of the bird is drawn to illustrate this. When the light from the moon is beginning to be perceived before moon herself has become visible the technical term is koata. When light from the sun is beginning to disperse the darkness of night the technical term could be takoa. Or maybe tokotokoa. The bottom of the dark henua at the beginning of Sunday is sloping upwards, the vertical distance is becoming shorter, presumably because sun is bringing light in at the end of the night sky. We can compare with how the bottom of the daylight henua in Kb4-14 is sloping upwards - a sign of arriving darkness:
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