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2. This conclusion agrees with what I earlier have suggested regarding the glyph type moe:

... The word moe (which Metoro often used at moe glyphs) together with the visual impressions from the glyph type makes it easy to draw the conclusion that the intention could be to illustrate the end of a 'tired old' season.

However, another explanation is probably more correct - viz. that moe marks the time when next season is making itself noticed by light in the east (although the celestial body expected still has not risen) ...

The bottom of moe in Ga2-3 is open, presumably a sign of 'not real', because a living entity must have integrity, be separate from its surroundings:

moe Ga1-20 (21) Ga2-3 (34)

Here the long neck sign of summer is presumably not meant to say that summer has begun, it is rather intended to indicate how summer lies just ahead.

Moemoe should be the opposite of moe and moemoe means to seize, to grasp, ideas which are connected with the coming voracious spring season, while moe is still only a dream, a precursor of the coming 'land' - exactly as when the kuhane of Hau Maka visited the island before it had arrived for real:

Moe

To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill.

Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill.

Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill.

Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

Also the form of the 'leg' of the moe bird in Ga2-3 could mean 'summer', because it has the same general shape as the left leg of the great Sun tagata who stands at the beginning of summer:

Ga2-5 (36) Ga2-6