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2. Star pillar number 4 is a special case, central among those 7 and forming a 'joint' between the first two groups

Ana-mua Ana-muri Ana-roto
Ana-tipu
Ana-heu-heu-po Ana-tahua-taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae Ana-tahua-vahine-o-toa-te-manava

If my ideas are correct, then we should find a break in time in line Ga4, corresponding to the 4th star (Ana-tipu, α Ursae Majoris, Dubhe) and sure enough already at the beginning of the line there is a magnificent tagata:

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Ga4-1 (85) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4

The 3 feathers at left on the following takaure glyph could be explained as a sign of the preceding 3 star pillars:

1

Ana-mua, entrance pillar

Antares, α Scorpii

-26° 19'  16h 26

2

Ana-muri, rear pillar (at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

Aldebaran, α Tauri

16° 25'  04h 33

3

Ana-roto, middle pillar

Spica, α Virginis

-10° 54'  13h 23

They presumably refer to the winter season - the season of 'flies' (takaure) - and could correspond to lines a1-a3. The 3 feathers at left are below the midline.

Takaure in Ga4-2 comes 266 days after what evidently is the beginning of the 'fly season':

180 84
Gb2-34 Gb2-35 Gb3-1 (292) Ga4-1 Ga4-2 (86)
266

266 could be a sign for 'autumn equinox', but if such is the case it should refer to the situation north of the equator, because Sun evidently has flewn away northwards across the equator half a year ago at the beginning of winter. The resemblance between iva (9) and Hiva is surely not a coincidence:

Hiva

Name of the country from where, according to tradition, came the Polynesian immigration of Hotu Matu'a; nowadays, this name designates any continent or foreign country: tagata Hiva, foreigner, person from the mainland. Vanaga.

Strange, alien, foreign; a stranger; kuhane hiva, Holy Ghost; hakahiva: mata hakahiva, to look back (? hakahira). Mq., Mgv.: hiva, iva, a stranger, a person from another district or country. Pau.: pure-hiva, a butterfly. Churchill.

H.: 1. Entirely black, as of pigs offered to the gods, a desirable blackness contrasting with uli and 'ele'ele, which have pejorative connotations. 2. Choice.  3. A term qualifying coconuts and kava. Polo hiwa, dark, glistening black, as clouds or tapa. Ua hala i ke ao polohiwa a Kāne, passed to the dark clouds of Kāne (death). Hiwa hiwa, precious, beloved, esteemed, petted, darling, indulged; favorite. Ka Mesia, ka hiwahiwa a ke Akua, the Messiah, the chosen of God. Ho'o hiwa hiwa to honor, adorn, decorate; to display, as the flag; to treat as a favorite; festive. He mea ho'ohiwahiwa i ke akua, a thing to honor the gods. 'O ka mea ho'ohiwahiwa i kāna kauā mai kona wā 'u'uku mai, he who delicately brings up his servant from his childhood. Wehewehe.

Another explanation is to identify 266 with 100 days less than 366:

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Gb2-34 Gb2-35 Gb3-1 (292) 264 Ga4-1 (*265) Ga4-2 (*266)

292 = 192 + 100, i.e. takaure in Gb3-1 seems to be located 100 days after the end of summer:

Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)

But I prefer to use my imagination and to count with 99 and from Rei in Ga7-22 (where 22 / 7 = π):

Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 (190) Ga7-21
97
Ga7-22 Gb2-34 (290) Gb2-35
99

If not glyph number 292 (takaure) had been located at the beginning of line b3 it would have been Gb2-36, where we immediately would have thought 4 * 59 = 236. But in Gb2-35 there evidently are 2 'berries' lost, which in a way resembles how Mars at Ga7-21 and Gb2-35 are positioned outside the first 190 glyphs respectively the first 290 glyphs. These Mars glyphs therefore are like joints between limbs.

Anyhow, tagata in Gb4-1 can be counted with to indicate the end of the takaure season:

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Gb3-1 (*1) 264 Ga4-1 (*266) Ga4-2
265

There are 9 glyph lines from b3 to a4 and if we continue beyond the full cycle of 16 glyph lines a4 will be line number 20.