... The quarternary system, which divides the island into four quadrants, correlates the four royal sons with the path of the sun ... The sequence of the sons is determined by their order of birth. To the first-born goes the region in which the noon sun reaches its zenith, a striking symbol for the highest ranking son; to the second-born goes the region of the setting sun. The name 'Miru' may have been connected to the central Polynesian concept of a region of the dead to the west and its guardian. The third son inherits the midnight region, and the last-born inherits the eastern section.

Since the last-born, a 'good and strong child' (poki rivariva, poki hiohio), was closest to the father, the region of the rising sun is alotted to him, which gives this region special value. While the successor of the king is like 'the sun at its highest point', the youngest son is like 'the rising sun' ...

To which can be added that the king himself was in the center, the 5th 'corner' of the island. Waman Puma would have known it immediately.

The young sun (son) (Harpokrates) is the one who sucks the finger:

... The bereaved and sorrowing Isis, meanwhile, wandering over the world in her quest - like Demeter in search of the lost Persephone - came to Byblos, where she learned of the wonderful tree. And, placing herself by a well of the city, in mourning, veiled and in humble guise - again like Demeter - she spoke to none until there approached the well the handmaidens of the queen, whom she greeted kindly. Braiding their hair, she breathed upon them such a wondrous perfume that when they returned and Astarte saw and smelt the braids she sent for the stranger, took her into the house, and made her the nurse of her child. The great goddess gave the infant her finger instead of breast to suck and at night, having placed him in a fire to burn away all that was mortal, flew in the form of a swallow around the pillar, mournfully chirping. But the child's mother, Queen Astarte, happening in upon this scene, shrieked when she spied her little son resting in the flames and thereby deprived him of the priceless boon ...

The priceless boon was immortality, delivered by the finger of Isis given to the child in the night. The story is about mortality, which is the domain of the Moon. She determines the pattern of Life and Death. Waxing comes before waning and in between is the bloom of life. At the end there is only darkness. Likewise in the beginning.

The firstborn son of the king, Tuu Maheke, will become old earlier than the rest of them. Number 1 in the sequence will therefore be allotted the 4th quadrant, number 2 in birth order (Miru Te Mata Nui) will go to the 3rd quadrant, number 3 (Tuu Rano Kao) to the 2nd, and the lastborn (Te Mata O Tuu Hotu Iti) to the first quadrant. The order of birth is the reverse of the order of quadrants. To move from the 4th quadrant to the 1st, by way of the 3rd and 2nd quadrant, you will move towards the future. In time the youngest will be the oldest.

Dimly I perceive the finger of Moon. She will surely like the baby more than the old one. She will move towards him. The events must move her in that direction.