Makohe can be read as ma-kohe, and it is interesting to find the example vave kai kohe in Churchill - in high summer the 'sky people' must be so high up as to be practically 'inacessible':

Kohe A plant (genus Filicinea) that grows on the coast. Vanaga. Vave kai kohe, inaccessible. Churchill. *Kofe is the name for bamboo on most Polynesian islands, but today on Easter Island kohe is the name of a fern that grows near the beach. Barthel 2.

Vave means a billowing wave, such as warn us about a reef below the surface. To approach would surely mean the end of the canoe or raft - it would be 'eaten' (kai), a fate not far from that awaiting Spring Sun at midsummer.

The 'bamboo' could be an alias for the 'Tree'. Perhaps the Easter Islanders saw the 'bamboo' as a fitting image for the force steadily pushing the sky roof during spring. One pice after another was added to the stem, but at Hatinga Te Kohe the great 'Tree' broke.

It is noteworthy that the ancient Irish system of writing was based on the names of different trees. Possibly the constellation kiore - henua, used is serial in a few rongorongo texts, illustrate the sections of the 'bambo' gradually added, as for example in Mamari:

Makohe could, maybe, alternatively be read as mako-he (or as ma-ko-he), where he might serve as a sign identifying the time when Sun no longer is present (cfr Tama he ika kino he ihu roroa).

It is furthermore possible that ke in kena connects the booby with the redtailed tavake:

Tava in tavake also seems to allude to tuvi and tavi. In the beginning there is a single bird and then comes a pair. Tavake in the corner of the 'dolmen' seems to announce the beginning of fall, and the pair of small greyish terns could be meant to indicate the end of fall.

Kukuru toua marks the corner where spring turns into summer and tavake the corner where summer turns into autumn. I guess the corners should be inhabited by Moon (always changing) rather than by Sun (never changing). On Tahiti a pigeon was called rupe, a name containing the Moon vowel u. At toki we saw how a multiple occurrence of u probably indicates a solstice: