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2. Toga also means winter, the dark season when sun is living with his other wife far out across the sea in the north. Furthermore, it is the name of a wooden platform for a dead chief.

In Van Tilburg's book is illustrated how such platforms can be constructed, using forked vertical poles:

Y-forms are in the rongorongo texts presumably meant to illustrate the season of straw (in contrast to the season of leaf).