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I will add *Qb6-25 as an example of hipu to my glyph catalogue. We can compare with e.g. Eb7-2, which hipu glyph we now can see contains a toki sign:

Eb6-31 Eb6-32 Eb6-33 Eb6-34
Eb6-35 Eb6-36 Eb7-1 Eb7-2 (548)

I must also add Eb7-2 as an example of toki.

In Gb5-12 (probably representing Hanga Te Pau) there is another hipu sign ('pau') and it too can be regarded as located at a fraction of a day (0.25):

Gb5-6 Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12
360 361 362 363 364 365 365.25
*Qb6-23 *Qb6-24 (640) *Qb6-25 *Qb6-26
383½ 384 384½ 385

Maybe hipu ('calabash') means a fraction - i.e. only a part of a 'person', a 'child not yet born', not yet visible. Eb7-2 has ordinal number 548, which can be understood as 365 + 182½ + ½.

... And when his head was put in the fork of the tree, the tree bore fruit. It would not have had any fruit, had not the head of One Hunaphu been put in the fork of the tree. This is the calabash, as we call it today ...