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3. The Belt of Orion is Tautoru, the 3 stars:
 
Tautoru

The Belt of Orion. Van Tilburg.

Mgv.: 1. Toutoru, Orion's belt. Mq.: tautou, a constellation of three stars. 2. Toutoru. hung by threes. Mq.: tautou, id. Churchill.
 
Maybe this fact influenced Metoro to see 3 'eyes' in these glyphs in the B text:
 
Bb5-14 Bb6-25
ko te manu mata e toru etoru mata oona

If we assume Alnilam represents the 'sleepy head', then the other 2 should be Alnitak and Mintaka.

 

However, the position high up as the head of the bird denies the supposition that it is Alnilam, it should rather be Mintaka.

 
Maybe the 'string of pearls' refers to all the 3 belt stars in Orion, located in the (important) center between Aldebaran and Sirius. Such an idea is supported by Allen:

"These Arabian titles of δ, ε, and ζ, although now applied to them individually, were at first indiscriminately used for the three together; but they had other names also, - Al Nijād, the Belt; Al Nasak, the Line; Al Alkāt, the Golden Grains, Nuts, or Spangles; and Fakār al Jauzah, the Vertebrae in the Jauzah's back."

 
Instead of a piece of cloth (remember the Black Cloth = Death) around the waist of Andromeda there is a triplet of bright stars around the waist of Orion.
 

Cursa

β Eridani

2.78

05° 09′ S

05h 05m

77.4

485.4

484¼

Rigel

β Orionis

0.18

08° 15′ S

05h 12m

79.1

487.1

486

Elnath

β Tauri

1.65

28º 34' N

05h 23m

81.9

489.9

488¾

Mintaka

δ Orionis

2.25

00° 20′ S

05h 29m

83.4

491.4

490¼

Alnilam

ε Orionis

1.69

01° 14′ S

05h 34m

84.7

492.7

491½

Alnitak

ζ Orionis

1.74

01° 58′ S

05h 38m

85.7

493.7

492½
Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 (492) Ga1-20 Ga1-21
Elnath (489.9) Mintaka (491.4)   Alnilam (492.7) Alnitak (493.7)

Mintaka could be at the end of the previous cycle and the other 2 stars at the beginning of the next, which would agree with the mata e toru description:

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Bb5-14 Bb6-25 (650)
ko te manu mata e toru etoru mata oona

The ordinal number of Bb5-14 on side b is 177 (= 6 * 29.5).

The ending -taka in Mintaka could in the ear of the Polynesian be heard as a word denoting the final of a structure:

Taka

Taka, takataka. Circle; to form circles, to gather, to get together (of people). Vanaga.

1. A dredge. P Mgv.: akataka, to fish all day or all night with the line, to throw the fishing line here and there. This can only apply to some sort of net used in fishing. We find in Samoa ta'ā a small fishing line, Tonga taka the short line attached to fish hooks, Futuna taka-taka a fishing party of women in the reef pools (net), Maori takā the thread by which the fishhook is fastened to the line, Hawaii kaa in the same sense, Marquesas takako a badly spun thread, Mangareva takara a thread for fastening the bait on the hook. 2. Ruddy. 3. Wheel, arch; takataka, ball, spherical, round, circle, oval, to roll in a circle, wheel, circular piece of wood, around; miro takataka, bush; haga takataka, to disjoin; hakatakataka, to round, to concentrate. P Pau.: fakatakataka, to whirl around. Mq.: taka, to gird. Ta.: taa, circular piece which connects the frame of a house. Churchill.

Takai, a curl, to tie; takaikai, to lace up; takaitakai, to coil. P Pau.: takai, a ball, to tie. Mgv.: takai, a circle, ring, hoop, to go around a thing. Mq.: takai, to voyage around. Ta.: taai, to make into a ball, to attach. Churchill.