Evidently moko glyphs appear at the end of calendar cycles, or to be more exact - after Old Sun has been 'killed' and a New Sun must arrive. In C there is a moko which is followed by a peculiar manu rere without eye:
Manu rere apparently means a free-moving spirit and this 'bird' can be interpreted as an insect: ... From a religious point of view, the high regard for flies, whose increase or reduction causes a similar increase or reduction in the size of the human population, is interesting, even more so because swarms of flies are often a real nuisance on Easter Island, something most visitors have commented on in vivid language. The explanation seems to be that there is a parallel relationship between flies and human souls, in this case, the souls of the unborn. There is a widespread belief throughout Polynesia that insects are the embodiment of numinous beings, such as gods or the spirits of the dead, and this concept extends into Southeast Asia, where insects are seen as the embodiment of the soul ... When the eye has been removed from manu rere it presumably means the spirit is no longer 'alive', i.e. it has been reincarnated. The function of moko is to 'swallow the eye of the insect'. Thereby the life spirit becomes 'incorporated' again. The mythical moko probably is referring to the gecko lizard, who lives on insects high up in the ceiling:  On Hawaii the swallowing procedure was entrusted to the ceremonial double of the king: ... The Makahiki effigy is dismantled and hidden away in a rite watched over by the king's 'living god', Kahoali'i or 'The-Companion-of-the-King', the one who is also known as 'Death-is-Near' (Koke-na-make). Close kinsman of the king as his ceremonial double, Kahoali'i swallows the eye of the victim in ceremonies of human sacrifice ... Yet, also on Hawaii moko was known as the one who knew when time was ripe: ... When the man, Ulu, returned to his wife from his visit to the temple at Puueo, he said, 'I have heard the voice of the noble Mo'o, and he has told me that tonight, as soon as darkness draws over the sea and the fires of the volcano goddess, Pele, light the clouds over the crater of Mount Kilauea, the black cloth will cover my head ... The other side of death is the growth of a new generation, which explains the growing '3-fingered' (spring) maro sign at top right in Ca4-24:
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