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The 20th glyph (counting from Aa2-2) is a strange 'person':

Aa2-21 (4) Aa2-22
26 Oromanga 27 Hanga Moria One
kua moe ku hakarava

If Manuscript E can be followed it should be the station where the current ruler is residing, and his Queen should be at Hanga Moria One. Although she is perishing at One Tea time does not stop but goes on in cycles:

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Aa2-10 Aa2-22
15 One Tea 27 Hanga Moria One

The words of Metoro can be understood. Among several possible translations I will choose the following: Moe here means 'cohabiting' and rava is 'to be satisfied'. Hakarava hakaturu is 'quadrangular':

Turu

To come down, to go down, to descend; ka-turu-age koe ki tai, go down to the sea now; turuga, coming down, descent. Vanaga.

1. To fall in drops, to flow, to leak, to descend, a drop; turu ki tai, to take refuge at sea; hakaturu, to cause to descend, to lower, to take soundings; hakaturuturu, to heave and pitch. Turuga, declivity. Turuvai, water conduit. P Mgv.: akaturu, to conduct water in a drain. Ta.: tuturu, to fall in drops. 2. To stay, to prop. T Pau.: turu, a post, pillar, to sustain. Mgv.: turu, a support, rod, stay, to sustain. Ta.: turu, stay, support; turuturu, posts of a house. Ha.: kukulu, a pillar, a post.  3. To come, to arrive, to overcome; tehe e turu, through and through; hakarava hakaturu, quadrangular. Churchill.

The following two glyphs ought then to be the stations for next ruler respectively for the retired king:

Aa2-23 Aa2-24
28 Papa O Pea 29 Ahu Akapu
koia ko te tuu o te toga

... Wooden platform for a dead chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden platform has been erected. Barthel 2 ...

At Papa O Pea a sign of 'eating' (kai) can be read, but at Ahu Akapu (the dark number 29 station) the hand is empty. 2 * 23 = 46 (= 20 + 26) and 2 * 24 = 48.

The kai sign in Aa2-23 is not securely attatched to the arm. Neither is it so in the following Aa2-25:

Aa2-25 Aa2-26 Aa2-27
koia ka rogo ia ki toga

These 5 glyphs clearly belong together. Notably Metoro saw Rogo in Aa2-26 (where 2 * 26 = 52).

The toga glyphs are not exactly alike, a single high such is followed by a pair of broader quality:

10 2
Aa2-13 (12) Aa2-24 Aa2-27
18 Pua Katiki 29 Ahu Akapu ?
ki te rima ko te tuu o te toga ki toga
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