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3. We know that glyph number 16 in a line (representing a day of Jupiter) ends the first part of the line, and in Ga1-16 there happens to be a 'full stop' mark to the right of the oval 'zero':

Gb8-30 Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4
Te Pei Te Pou Hua Reva Akahanga Hatinga Te Kohe
Ga1-5 Ga1-6 Ga1-7 Ga1-8
Roto Iri Are Tama
Ga1-9 Ga1-10 Ga1-11 Ga1-12
One Tea Hanga Takaure
Ga1-13 Ga1-14 Ga1-15 Ga1-16

If we wish to have Hanga Takaure at Ga1-11, then it is necessary to let each kuhane station beyond vaha mea in Ga1-4 correspond to 2 glyphs. Otherwise Hatinga Te Kohe could not be at Ga1-4. There is a kind of logic in this, because the last te station named by the kuhane of Hau Maka is Hatinga Te Kohe, the 10th and last station of Sun, who has only 1 'leg' (or 'wing', etc) whereas Moon and Venus have both waxing and waning faces.

At One Tea the Queen dies according to Manuscript E, and it becomes uncertain if we should continue to count with 2 glyphs per kuhane station or not. If we first consider Hanga Takaure (presumably Ga1-11--12) its 2nd glyph type would be hanau ('birth'):

hanau

Ga1-12

Ga1-14

The open hand sign (at right in Ga1-12 and both hands in Ga1-14) apparently is a development away from the 'dry straw' (Y) hand sign in my prototype of hanau.

It is plausible to assign 2 glyphs for Hanga Takaure: The first glyph is showing 'the dry old bone', tagata with gagana head, and the 2nd (hanau) glyph could refer to the moment when the living spirit (manu rere) has returned from the sky above and entered the new body, reincarnated. A 'living hand' appears at right in Ga1-12 and is fully in place in Ga1-14. The golden plover arrived where 'sea' turns to 'upraised reef':

... Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ...

Time is ripe to begin to build up a new man (tagata). Therefore his limbs are mentioned. The cycle is closed here because Fakataka has delivered a golden Sun baby, and haka-taka (Fakataka) is to form a circle. From the name Hanga Taka-ure we can deduce that ure is a name for Sun - a bay (haga) is where sea and land are adjoining (the 'reef'), taka is where a cycle is closed, and ure should refer to Spring Sun:

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.

Ure

1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga.

Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill.

Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill.

H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom (pōule) appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe.

Another clue is found at taka. The word aka-taka, to fish all day or night with a line, has the same beginning as aka-haga which explains both the appearance of fishes dangling at the end of lines (Ga1-8, Ga1-10) and why the left sign in Ga1-10 is equal to the glyph type in Ga1-3 (which glyph I suggest corresponds to the 10th kuhane station Akahanga):

Ga1-3 Ga1-10
Aka

1. Anchor: he-hoa te aka, to drop anchor. 2. Root of certain plants (banana tree, taro, sugar-cane). 3. To be paralyzed by surprise. Vanaga.

1. Root; aka totoro, to take root. P Pau., Mq.: aka, root. Ta.: aa, id. 2. (āka) anchor. 3. Causative (haka). Churchill.

If we compare with the text in E, there is a hua ('offspring') sign at right in Eb7-35 (where 73 * 5 = 365), prolonged from a 'living hand', which agrees in general meaning with Hanga Takaure:

Eb7-30 Eb7-31 Eb7-32 Eb7-33 Eb7-34 Eb7-35
te koka te hokohuki kua rere te veveke te makere te takaure kua oho mai kua hua
Ga1-7 Ga1-8 Ga1-9 Ga1-10 Ga1-11 Ga1-12
Tama One Tea Hanga Takaure

The person sitting down is a sign of kai (i.e. the 'eating' season, spring, in contrast to the 'string' season, kaikai):

Eb7-35

kai

hua