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Arguments have now been presented which make it plausible that the 10 first glyphs in line Aa2 are meant to represent an overview of the 'year' of the Moon:

Ohoga means departure. Kohata is Mangarevan for 'the space between two boards, to be badly joined'.
Aa2-1 Aa2-2 The haga rave glyph type could depict the course of the sun, first moving down towards Easter Island, then making a turn at the bottom, followed by a crack and then autumn. Badly joined it is, but there is only a single 'board' (spring), with 'winter' comes 'water' (vai).
Ko te ohoga i vai ohata
Nuku erua means two 'lands'.
Aa2-3 Aa2-4 Maybe the two halves ('lands') of the year are depicted: The first half in form of a low flying 'hua' together with (below, later) a 'dry land head' with a single mata in front. In Aa2-4 (where 2 * 4 = 8) light has evidently left (Te Pei) and at the bottom is a 'water droplet'. If time runs downwards it ends in water.
eko te nuku erua - no te tagata
Vero tahi means 'first spear' and hupee mucus.
Aa2-5 Aa2-6 (96) A spear is thrown in a quick movement of the arm (rima) and the king is induced to fast reaction. If he survives and reaches the state of 'fully grown' (tagata), he will no longer be as quick as the eye.
vero tahi ma te hupee
Pu means 'hole' and also signifies 'origin'. Ipu is the Tahitian version of hipu, calabash. Mahigo is 'offspring'.
Aa2-7 Aa2-8 (13) The limbs of tagata in Aa2-7 are 'cut off' at right and there is no mata at right. It is Monday, a final day. The hakaturou sign at right in Aa2-8 begins from nothing.
ka pu te ipu ka pu - i te mahigo
Tai is the sea - the opposite of uta (uplands). Tamaiti is the little child.
Aa2-9 Aa2-10 (15) The curious Aa2-9 shows a crack at right in the vertical 'tree', which connects it with mata at right. This mata is like the half moon of the waning phase.
ka pu i te tamaiti e tai

In other terms henua ora in Aa2-10 could be the 15th kuhane station One Tea, where the Queen will end her journey:

6 Te Kioe Uri 7 Te Piringa Aniva
Aa2-1 Aa2-2
Ko te ohoga i vai ohata
8 Te Pei 9 Te Pou
Aa2-3 Aa2-4
eko te nuku erua - no te tagata
10 Hua Reva 11 Akahanga
Aa2-5 Aa2-6 (96)
vero tahi ma te hupee
12 Hatinga Te Kohe 13 Roto Iri Are
Aa2-7 Aa2-8
ka pu te ipu ka pu - i te mahigo
14 Tama 15 One Tea
Aa2-9 Aa2-10
ka pu i te tamaiti e tai

14 Tama coincides beautifully both with the information in the glyph and with what Metoro said - the child is born. 12 Hatinga Te Kohe is also possible to understand by way of the two glyphs Aa2-7--8. There is a gap in front of the time when 'sucking' (omo) ends. In Aa2-6 there is a kind of haga rave sign at top right, which possibly can be read out as '-hanga'. I observed this sign already when I sorted glyphs by types, and it is therefore no reconstruction from aftersight.

It is also possible to find arguments for Aa2-3--4 to represent Te Pei and Te Pou (which clearly belong together as a pair not only by force of their names but also by force of their qualities - deep down in the dark respectively the contrasting Sirius high up and bright).

No similar arguments seem possible to use in order to put Te Kioe Uri and Te Piringa Aniva easily in agreement with Aa2-1--2. But these two stations are indeed at a time when the ruler needs support, when he is weak or maybe totally absent.

Next we must try to see if the glyphs which follow Aa2-10 also could represent kuhane stations.