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The dream soul (the Moon, the Queen of the Sun king) could indeed have been 'careless' towards her old husband, because her attention was now on the newborn prince:

"he ata pe hiva he hati te kohe i te vae" (Manuscript E according to Barthel 2) "The dream soul was careless (?) and broke the kohe plant with her feet." (Barthel 2)

Hiva is the 'old homeland', where the spirits of the dead 'live', or in general - another 'land' far away.

Pe is the key word and hiva seems to be a following addition to make clear that the 'breaking' is not an event on Easter Island proper but in the 'land of myth'.