1. To go up; to go in a boat on the sea (the surface of which gives the impression of going up from the coast): he-eke te tagata ki ruga ki te vaka, he-iri ki te Hakakaiga, the men boarded the boat and went up to Hakakainga. 2. Ka-iri ki puku toiri ka toiri. Obscure expression of an ancient curse. Vanaga.

Iri-are, a seaweed. Vanaga.

2 * 68 = 136 (cfr Ca5-31). And 4 * 68 = 272, from where we can count 740 = 4 * 68 + 468. What is in the eye of the beholder and what is out there?

We should also investigate what the last 10 glyphs on side b are saying:


Cb14-1	Cb14-2	Cb14-3	Cb14-4
Kua pu ia	tatagata ariga erua	te marama	te ika

Cb14-5	Cb14-6	Cb14-7	Cb14-8
kua puo te pouo - vai o maú hia	manu noi	ku hakarava	kotia hia

Cb14-9 (730)	Cb14-10	Cb14-11	Cb14-12
kua haro te rima	te marama	ku kikiu	tagata

Cb14-13	Cb14-14	Cb14-15 (736)	Cb14-16
kua to i te heke	tagata tui i tona ika	manu puoko erua	te manu

Cb14-17	Cb14-18	Cb14-19
e noi koe te manu - kokoti hia te henua	tagata hakaitiiti	i te henua

The impression one gets is that Sun is sinking low (last 3 glyphs), kokoti hia te henua, broken is the 'earth' (and 14 * 17 = 238 > 8 * 29½). The last Sunday glyph could be at autumn equinox because 14 * 19 = 266.

At Saturn in Cb14-18 there is a person (tagata) who is 'making itiiti', a word I recognize from my recent search for men with hands held high:

Bb9-40

o tagata itiiti

Apparently we are on an important track. 9 * 40 = 360 and counting from Bb1-1 the ordinal number of the glyph is 366.

Itiiti ought to mean the opposite of iti (little), however this is strangely not the impression one gets when searching in my Polynesian word list, e.g. poki itiiti (child), hare itiiti no (hut), manava itiiti (frugal). I decide to update my word list to include also iti (which I earlier had not found necessary, because it was an easy word to remember from for instance tamaiti):

Iti

Little, small, medium; iti atu, less; iti no, small quantity, rare; no iti, superficial. Itia, shrunken. Itiiti, scanty, slim; hare itiiti no, cabin; itiiti noa, mediocre, mediocricity. Hakaiti, to make small, to lessen, to weaken, to impoverish, to thin out, to reduced, to diminish, to retrench, to curtail, to subdue, to mitigate, to abate. Hakaitiiti, to squat, to croach. P Mgv.: iti, small. Mq.: iti, id. Ta.: iti, id. Churchill.

Updating my word list I stumbled on a hint of who the great worm Ringi might be (he who raised the upper half-shell and then exhaustedly died):

Rigi

... Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth. Larousse.

Ta.: iki, iini, to pour, to spill. Sa.: ligi, liligi, id. Ma.: ringi, riringi, id. Ta.: ninii, id. Pau.: riringi, id. Churchill.

Of course it should be a reference to the Milky Way, the track which in mythology was caused by someone running while spilling out milk.

My curiosity as to the meaning of itiiti made me also update the special word list I have created for Metoro's readings:


Ba9-49	Ba10-32
e manu itiiti* era e*	Etagata itiiti

Bb2-37	Bb9-40	Bb9-47	Bb11-18	Bb12-4
e tagata itiiti* mea mau - i te vaha*	o tagata itiiti	ko te tagata itiiti* mau rima ra*	Tagata itiiti* - ma to kava*	eaha te manu itiiti

Cb14-18

tagata hakaitiiti

Eb1-42

te hau tea - ko itiiti

Hau tea with 'Janus eyes' together with a string of 'itiiti' in front makes us once again return to Ga1-2:

	23
*Ga1-2 (475)**	23	*Ga1-26 (499)**

The ordinal number of Eb1-42 is 368 (= 736 / 2, cfr manu kake in Cb14-15):


Eb1-26	Eb1-27	Eb1-28	Eb1-29	Eb1-30
hokohuki - te rima - te kihikihi	te hau tea	ka viri ka taka	ka viri e taka	ka tu i te toga te manu - hua te vaero

Eb1-31	Eb1-32	Eb1-33	Eb1-34	Eb1-35
tagata puoko kore	oho hukiga - te rima	vanaga hia	hare pure	i te rima


Eb1-36	Eb1-37	Eb1-38	Eb1-39
Kua vare	koia ra - kua oho	moa rere ragi	ihe tara huki

Eb1-40 (366)	Eb1-41	Eb1-42	Eb2-1
te henua	te huki	te hau tea - ko itiiti	te maitaki - te maro