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1. The sign of Aquarius is connected with the planet Saturn. One of the Polynesian names for Saturn was 'Dripping Water' (information from Makemson): 

Hawaiian Islands

Society Islands

New Zealand

Pukapuka

Naholoholo, 'Swift-running' (?)

Makulu, 'Dripping-water'

Fetu-tea, 'Pale-star'

Parearau, 'Circlet'

Kopu-nui, 'Great-paunch'

Mata-tea, 'Pale-star'

I have put a question mark at 'Swift-running' because double horo will turn it into its opposite (Saturn is the slowest moving of the planets):

Horo

1. To wash down, to gulp, to swallow, to bolt food; horohoro, to swallow, to gobble, gluttonous, greedy, insatiable, voracious. P Pau.: tahoro, to swallow; horomiti, id. Mgv.: horo, oro, id. Mq.: hoó, to eat poi, to swallow without chewing. Ta.: horo puupuu, to bolt food; horomii, to swallow, to devour. 2. To escape, to hide. P Pau.: horo, to hide, to bury, to avoid. 3. To trot (horau). P Pau.: horo, to run, to gallop. Mgv.: oro, ohoro, to pass along quickly. Mq.: hoó, to run, to make haste. Ta.: horo, to run. 4. To put an edge on, a jointing plane (orooro); horohoro, to brush, to polish, to clear up, to rub wood, to rumple; maea horohoro, snowy rock. P Mgv.: oro, to rub, to whet, to sharpen. Mq.: hoó, to rub on a stone. Ta.: hororaa to, a cane mill; oro, to rasp, to grate. 5. To starch (horoi). Mgv.: oro, to wash. 6. To have recourse to, to repass. 7. ? horo varevare, without branches. Churchill.

Mgv.: horo, to crumble, fall, slip down. Ta.: horo, a landslide. Sa.: solo, to slide down, to fall. Ma.: horo, a landslide. Churchill.

Horoga, demarcation. Horohopae, to save, to economize, steward (horauhopae). Churchill.

Horoi. 1. To dry, to wipe (horo 5); horoimata, handkerchief. P Mgv.: horoi, oroi, a towel, handkerchief, anything used as a wiper after bathing. Mq.: hoói, to wash, to cleanse, to purify, to scour, to rinse, to dry, to bathe, to dry the tears, to console. Ta.: horoi, handkercief, to wash, to cleanse. 2. To clean, to efface, to sharpen (horo 4). Mq.: hoói, to efface. Churchill.

For the modern mind there is no common denominator between such ideas as are expressed by the words horo and horoi. But a napkin (little handkerchief) is what you need after having gobbled down and satiated yourself, and a towel comes in handy after a bath.

Allen:

With Capricorn it [Aquarius] was the House of Saturn, governing the legs and ankles; and when on the horizon with the sun the weather was always rainy. When Saturn was here, he had man completely in his clutches - caput et collum; while Jupiter, when here, had humeros, pectus et pedes.

In the calendar of the week Saturn-day is described (cfr at Fishing up Land) as follows:

Hb9-51 Hb9-52 Hb9-53 Hb9-54 Hb9-55
Hb9-56 Hb9-57 Hb9-58

A droplet can be imagined at bottom center in Hb9-54 and the preceding Saturday glyph has, it seems, a person who has lost (dropped) one of his fishes.

The little smudge at the throat of tagata in Hb9-52 does not allude to caput et collum (head and throat) - it is only an artefact produced when I copied the glyph.