31
	Ga7-5	Ga7-6	Ga7-7 (177)	Ga7-8	Ga7-9	Ga7-10

Maitaki comes immediately after a henua ora which identifies 6 * 29.5 = day number 177 according to the moon (and counted from Gb8-30). 8 + 8 feathers makes this identification quite certain. It is the last (31st) of the regular 'henua periods'. And ariki in Ga7-6 marks the end of 8 months counted from Rogo:

	114		123
Gb6-26		Ga2-21		Ga7-6
116 = 4 * 29			124 = 4 * 31
240 = 8 * 30

If we add 59 to 177 (i.e. count from tamaiti in Gb7-3) we will reach 8 * 29.5 = 236 at Ga7-7, which agrees with 8 + 8 feathers. It means maitaki in Ga7-8 will correspond to day 237, or the 1st day of the 2nd half of 472 days.

The 3 rocky islets are not named after Hau Maka, they belong to an earlier 'generation', to Taanga (which sounds very much like Taranga, the mother of Maui tikitiki a Taranga). Possibly the 'front side' stretches to day 192 (= 8 * 32 - 64). Or maybe to Ga7-34 where we can count 73 * 4 = 292 and then continue to 2 * 92 = 184 (= 204 - 20). Several alternatives compete for our attention:

Ga7-11	Ga7-12	Ga7-13	Ga7-14	Ga7-15	Ga7-16 (186)
Ga7-17	Ga7-18	Ga7-19	Ga7-20	Ga7-21	Ga7-22
Ga7-23	Ga7-24	Ga7-25	Ga7-26	Ga7-27 (197)	Ga7-28
Ga7-29	Ga7-30	Ga7-31	Ga7-32	Ga7-33	Ga7-34 (204)

When Moon takes over after Sun has done his job it is time for the stations of Hau Maka, the kuhane has reached the mainland.

The 'youths' (ga kope) are 'bursting' from the water (tutuu vai). One way to understand it is to imagine that 'hot spring' has fallen from his highest (like Ikaros) down into the sea - the rain period has arrived. The adult face of the sun is the rain and Sun is now a Rain God. Prior to that we can find 100 days 'free from clouds':

			96
Ga3-17 (77)	Ga3-18	Ga3-19		Ga7-6	Ga7-7 (177)	Ga7-8
	100

The 5 glyph lines Ga3--Ga7 do not belong to the Moon and the stations do not belong to Hau Maka. The period of rain (Moon) commences with the arrival of Matariki, the Pleiades (which in classical times were associated with rain).

If we count with doublemonths, we can associate also line Ga2 with spring sun, because he should have 3 doublemonths (a2-a3, a4-a5, a6-a7). To find an allusion to Nga Kope Ririva in number 111 counted from Rogo is therefore not unreasonable:

Ga2-11	Ga2-12	Ga2-13	Ga2-14	Ga2-15	Ga2-16 (111)

Let us finish this 'proof' with a peculiar children's game described some time ago in a locat newspaper (and fetched from an old book):

All the natives of the South Sea islands are great swimmers. Both men, women and children could almost be called amphibians, because they spend a good portion of their day swimming, diving, bathing and doing all those and similar sports in the midst of the breakers and the surging sea rolling in over the coral banks. The more the sea is heaving, the more the islander feels at home in this his right element. 

These islanders seem to be very fond of children, especially their neighbours', which they until quite recently did not hesitate to eat. That, in addition to the repulsive murder of their own children, especially as regards girls, results in a quite considerable reduction in their number. But otherwise the children are as merry and free from sorrow as their parents.

They learn to swim almost as soon as they begin to walk. The children are very amused by swinging and by sending up paper kites. They also have a rather peculiar game, which consists of keeping their eyes wide open with the help of a stiff straw of grass pushing their eye-lids apart.

The stiff straw is - I believe - the same type of sign as the vertical straight line in maitaki glyphs. It illustrates how the eye (mata) can be 'propped up' like the spring sky. The 3 mata in maitaki are the 3 sunny doublemonths of spring.