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5. The 'persons of the sky' who are born in the east and grow to maturity at noon will die in the west. Maui was born in the topknot of his mother, a place inside her hair and as high as possible. This means in the region of Saturn and at winter solstice.

Surely 180° later Maui must die, and the location should be summer solstice. His father had made a mistake, he had omitted a part of his prayers:

 'My child', said Makea now in a tone of deep sorrow, 'there has been a bad omen for us. When I performed the tohi ceremony over you I missed out a part of the prayers. I remebered it too late. I am afraid this means that you are going to die.'

It is hardly a coincidence that the name of the ceremony was tohi, because we will immediately think of Omotohi, the night of the full moon, when the 'sucking' (omo) is 'cut off' (tohi), when the face of waxing is finished.

Maui represents the front side of the cycle, presumably equally well the front side of the year as the front side of the month (or the front side of some other cycle). At midsummer ('noon', 'full moon', etc) he must 'succumb' to the horizon in the west:

 

In the text of H there is a vaha kai glyph which could be of interest in this context:

The standing man with open mouth, open hand (like in the Mayan Manik), and a 3-feathered string in front possibly represents Spring Sun (his mouth is widely open and an open hand signifies 'empty'). He seems to be finished this Monday.

This type of hanging down string with 'feathers' has been labelled maro (following the words used by Metoro) and it was probably applied in rongorongo texts to mark where periods or seasons are ending.

Maro Maro: A sort of small banner or pennant of bird feathers tied to a stick. Maroa: 1. To stand up, to stand. 2. Fathom (measure). See kumi. Maro: 1. June. 2. Dish-cloth T P Mgv.: maro, a small girdle or breech clout. Ta.: maro, girdle. Maroa: 1. A fathom; maroa hahaga, to measure. Mq.: maó, a fathom. 2. Upright, stand up, get up, stop, halt. Mq.: maó, to get up, to stand up. Pau.: Maro, hard, rough, stubborn. Mgv.: maro, hard, obdurate, tough. Ta.: mârô, obstinate, headstrong. Sa.: mālō, strong. Ma.: maro, hard, stubborn. Ta.: Maro, dry, desiccated. Mq.: mao, thirst, desiccated. Fu.: malo, dry. Ha.: malo, maloo, id. Mgv.: Maroro, the flying fish. (Ta.: marara, id.) Mq.: maoo, id. Sa.: malolo, id. Ma.: maroro, id.

But the ordinal number of vaha kai in *Ha7-35 is too high it seems, 379 counted from Ha1-1. At the preceding standing and fully grown man (tagata) 73 * 4 = 292 seems to be significant. It could indicate a cardinal point in time, for instance could 4 out of 5 periods with 73 days in each (in order to reach 365) be ending here. Maybe we should also compare with Ga7-34, which is the last glyph in line Ga7: