Mars is seen to 'create' (toki) light (hau tea), true to his character as the planet 'ruling' the arrival of light in spring. Jupiter is his 'antipode', the phase of sun which rules autumn. In autumn it is not light which is being born (hanau), it is the dark season (7 'feathers' on the reversed tapa mea, the one in the center wilting).

The great 'mouth' (vaha kai in Ca3-10) at the western horizon is waiting to swallow the sun (as Jupiter), and beyond is puo (Ca3-11) and koti. Ata puo means to 'hill up a plant' (an action which covers the plant so it will be out of sight for the light):

Pu'o

(Also pu'a); pu'o nua, one who covers himself with a nua (blanket), that is to say, a human being. Vanaga.

1. To dress, to clothe, to dress the hair; puoa, clothed; puoa tahaga, always dressed. 2. To daub, to besmear (cf. pua 2); puo ei oone, to daub with dirt, to smear. 3. Ata puo, to hill up a plant. Churchill.