26	*Kane*	It is a day of very low tide but joyous for men who fish with lines and for girls who dive for sea-urchins.
27	*Lono*	The tide is low, the sea calm, the sand is gathered up and returned to its place; in these days the sea begins to wash back the sand that the rough sea has scooped up. This is one account of the night of Lono.
28	*Mauli*	...a day of low tide. 'A sea that gathers up and returns the sand to its place' is the meaning of this single word.
29	*Muku*	...a day of low tide, when the sea gathers up and returns the sand to its place, a day of diving for sea-urchins, small and large, for gathering sea-weed, for line-fishing by children, squid-catching, uluulu fishing, pulu fishing and so forth. Such is the activity of this day.

One way to explain it - i.e. how there can be 'ebb' = light (cfr at hupee) at the end of waning moon - is to point at how Sun is being 'reborn' earlier than Moon at winter solstice:


Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28	Gb7-1	Gb7-2 (413)
1	2	3	4	5
Kane	Lono	Mauli	Muku	*Hilo*

If we count the beginning of the Moon cycle from the end of the previous cycle, viz. from hau tea with one 'eye' looking back and one 'eye' looking forward in Janus fashion, it will be number night number 5 (rima) counted from Rogo (or Tane, Kane).

Hilo

On the evening of Hilo there is a low tide until morning. On this night the women fished by hand (in the pools left by the receding sea) and the men went torch fishing. It was a calm night, no tide until morning. It was a warm night without puffs of wind; on the river-banks people caught gobey fish by hand and shrimps in hand-nets in the warm water. Thus passed the famous night of Hilo. During the day, the sea rose washing up on the sand, and returned to its old bed, and the water was rough.

The central glyph is Gb6-28 - where we can count to 6 * 28 = 168 as a measure for how many nights Moon is shining from the rays of Sun during 6 months - and it corresponds to Mauli.

Then light seems to disappear (Muku). Although it is said to be ebb it is also said that the sea goes up on the beach in order to return the sand, i.e. to build up the 'land' again.