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Maybe the hupee glyph type represents the 'the place aloft' ('poike' in the Maori dialect). The 'front side' of Easter Island should be its northern side (towards the equator and Sun) and its southern side should be the 'back side' (the side of Moon), and then Poike will be a place of change.

Mahatua (item 24 in the 2nd list of place names) could be the last 'station' before the 'turnover' of the 'tablet' from 'front' to 'back':

20 hanga ohiro a pakipaki renga.
21 ko roto kahi a touo renga.
22 ko papa kahi a roro.
23 ko puna a tuki a hauhau renga
24 ko ehu ko mahatua a piki rangi a hakakihikihi mahina

25 ko maunga teatea a pua katiki.
26 ko te hakarava a hakanohonoho.
27 ko hanga nui a te papa tata ika.
28 ko tongariki a henga eha tunu kioe hakaputiti.ai ka haka punenenene henua mo opoopo o tau kioe

Ehu we recognize. It means 'ashes', as when Metoro said ehu at the border between 'daytime' and 'night' in Tahua:

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e ia toa tauuru - ehu e ia toa tauuru - ehu

At a border line there is reason to mention both sides and the name of item 24 in the list does include, it seems, these 2 sides, not only by way of ko twice but also by a possible contrast between piki and kihi-kihi:

ko ehu - ko mahatua a piki rangi - a hakakihikihi mahina

It is important to understand what the 'Old Ones' may have meant and we need separate pages for such an effort.