Haga 1. Bay, fishing spot. (Figuratively) he haga o te ákuáku, it is the [evil] spirit's fishing spot, i.e. a place where they hide waiting for people to fall under their power. 2. To want, to love. Ku haga á i te vai, I want water, I am thirsty. Vanaga. 1. Bay, strait, anchorage, strand, beach. P Mq.: hana, haka, small bay, creek, cove. 2. Work, labor, employment, act, affair, creation, design, state, maker, fashion, manufacture, occupation, profession; to do, to make, to construct, to employ, to form, to manufacture, to fashion, to found, to be busy with; haga rakerake, crime; tagata haga ei mea, mercenary; haga no iti, to plot mischief; haga ke, to act contrary; haga takataka, to disjoin; haga nui, difficulty, fatigue, to weary; tuhi ki te haga, to give employment; haga hakahou, to make over, to renew, recovery; haga koroiti, to deal prudently; haga nuinui ke, to overburden. P Pau.: haga, to do, action, work, a deed. Mgv.: haga, aga, work, labor. Mq.: hana, haka, action, act, work, occupation. Ta.: haa, work, to labor, to make. 3. Agreement, conduct, liking, intention, desire, will; to resolve, to permit, to endeavor, to tolerate, to be willing, to wish, to approve; haga ihoiho, fixed desire; haga mai, haga no mai, to agree, to hearken favorably; tae haga, despite, involuntary, to refuse, to renounce; noho hakahaga, apathy. 4. = haka. Pau.: haga = haka. 5. Mgv.: haga, a fish. Mq.: haka, id. 6. Mgv.: haga, a fishtrap. Sa.: faga, a fish-trap, bird-cage. Ma.: hanganoa, a small basket for cooked fish. 7. Mgv.: haga, a measure of a fathom. Ta.: aa, to measure length. Mq.: aka, ana, to measure with the arms. Ma.: whanga, id. Churchill. Hagaava (haga 1 - ava 2), entrance of a harbor. Hagahaga: 1. (haga 2), work. 2. hesitation, to hesitate. Churchill.

Ba8-19	Ba8-20
i te hagahaga i te mago	mai tae haga hia tona maa

Between Ba8-19 and Ba8-20 a change has taken place. Maybe Ba8-19 refers to summer solstice and Ba8-20 to winter solstice. If we once again consult the Egyptian picture we can see a pair of upstretched arms not only at right bottom, but also where 'night' turns into 'day':

At 'midnight' the upraised arms are below the sky, as if receiving the newborn Son, but at bottom right the action takes place 'on the other side of the sky' and what happens is that the ship of Pharaoh is received in a kind of net (probably the 'black cloth'). Above the head of the goddess is not an oval (like a cartouche waiting for its name) but a headgear. The Mad Hatter (Mercury) rules beyond midsummer. The arms are held very high to make room for the headgear and also to indicate the sky of high summer.

The bulging stomach is oriented at left in Ba8-19 but at right in Ba8-20, pointing in the direction of the season of affluence in both cases:

Ba8-19	Ba8-20
summer solstice (?)	winter solstice (?)

The uplifted arms in Ba8-19 are both convex towards left, but in Ba8-20 they are rather symmetric, signs we do not understand as yet. The pair of uplifted arms should have been there in Gb8-30 and Ga1-1 too if the time had been a solstice:

Gb8-30	Ga1-1

But 472 days is a cycle which goes beyond the normal year. Maybe the signs of 'double yet still the same' are there in order to make us think of winter solstice. Maybe the absence of a pair of uplifted arms is a sign to make us realize that it cannot be winter solstice.

Our conclusion as readers would then be to think of something similar to a winter solstice, and the interpretation surely would be the 'winter solstice' of the great cycle of Moon. Instead of the single 'head' of Sun (as in Ba8-19) there are 2 'heads' (for the Waxing and Waning 'faces' of Moon).

If Metoro had read the G text for Bishop Jaussen he possibly could have said hahaga at Ga1-1, because with haga for the part at top right in the glyph he could have connected the left part with the first part of haga, viz. ha:

Ha 1. Four. 2. To breathe. Hakaha'a, to flay, to skin. Vanaga. 1. Four. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ha, id. 2. To yawn, to gape. 3. To heat. 4. Hakaha, to skin, to flay; unahi hakaha, to scale fish. Mgv.: akaha, to take to pieces, to take off the bark or skin, to strip the leaves off sugarcane. 5. Mgv: ha, sacred, prohibited. Mq.: a, a sacred spot. Sa.: sa, id.  Churchill.

Ha means 4 and hahaga can therefore be interpreted as the 'harbour' of 'number 4', or the 'summit' of the 'year' with 4 * 4 = 16 lunar synodic months.

Hahaga is noted as the name of the ridgepole of a hare paega, i.e. it can symbolize the middle of the night:

To read hahaga at Ga1-1 is not a case of reading 'rebus fashion' because the connection between the word hahaga and the idea illustrated in Ga1-1 is not severed. The word is not cut off from its right context.

Hahaga could conceivably be a wordplay, to be understood also as haha-ga, the location (ga) of the 'mouth' (haha), viz. to indicate the opening ('mouth') of the year:

Haha 1. Mouth (oral cavity, as opposed to gutu, lips). 2. To carry piggy-back. He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga. 1. To grope, to feel one's way; po haha, darkness, obscure. 2. Mouth, chops, door, entrance, window; haha pipi, small mouth; haha pipiro, foul breath; ohio haha, bit of bridle; tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. Churchill.

Such a wordplay could survive 'translation' into the glyph of Ga1-1 if we imagine there is an open mouth (ready to eat) at top right.

It would indeed be quite difficult to understand why haha means not only 'mouth' but also 'to carry piggy-back' without realizing the connection between ha-haga (the 'ridgepole' of the year) and haha-ga (the place of the 'entrance' to the year).