6. The bird is not a manu rere sign, instead the 'wings' constitute a separate item, perhaps a sign of viri. This type of bird can be named simply manu:
Maybe manu refers to the kena bird (as in Ana-kena):
In Manuscript E it was told (cfr at 2 Sticks) how the 2 hulls of the royal double-canoe were separated when 'land' was reached, and later when the queen threatened to come first, before the king, magic had to be used: ... The men on board the royal canoe looked out from Varinga Te Toremo (the northeastern cape of the Poike peninsula). Then they saw the canoe of the queen, the canoe of Ava Rei Pua, as it reached Papa Te Kena (on the northern shore, east of Hanga Oteo). Honga came and gazed in the direction below (i.e., toward the west). He called out to the noteworthy ruler (? ariki motongi) Hotu: 'There is the canoe of the queen! It will be the first one to land!' At this news King Hotu replied to Honga, 'Recite (rutu) ('powerful incantations') as though the ten brothers of the chief (ariki maahu) were one whole (?).' The ten recited with all their might. This is what they recited: 'Let all movement (? konekone) cease!' They recited and sailed on swiftly: Honga, Te Kena, Nuku Kehu, Nga Vavai, Oti, Tive (corrected for 'Sive'), Ngehu, Hatu, Tuki, and Pu (corrected for 'Bu'). He worked mana in the fishing grounds. (Naming of two fishing grounds.) ... There are allusions to Anakena, first in the name Papa Te Kena (which sounds like a reference to the shoulderblade, tu'a ivi, of Andromeda (Delta) and then in the name of the 2nd of the 10 chiefs, Te Kena.
A delta is the lowest point of a river. After the queen's canoe (probably Moon) had been magically stopped - and Moon time no longer was continuing - a new order had been established according to which the Sun King arrived first to Anakena: ... When Hotu's canoe had reached Taharoa, the vaginal fluid (of Hotu's pregnant wife) appeared. They sailed towards Hanga Hoonu, where the mucus (kovare seems to refer to the amniotic sac in this case) appeared. They sailed on and came to Rangi Meamea, where the amniotic fluid ran out and the conctractions began.
They anchored the canoe in the front part of the bay, in Hanga Rau. The canoe of Ava Rei Pua also arrived and anchoraged. After Hotu's canoe had anchoraged, the child of Vakai and Hotu appeared. It was Tuu Maheke, son of Hotu, a boy. After the canoe of Ava Rei Pua had also arrived and anchoraged, the child of Ava Rei Pua was born. It was a girl named Ava Rei Pua Poki ... Alamak is at the end of Andromeda and it could signify the end of the birth process. In Gb7-25--26 we can imagine the opening of a new season (vaha mea) and and explanation of the same in form of a rising fish (Moon) generating offsping (hua):
Sheratan has day number 436 if we count with a 360-day long cycle: ... Sharatan and Sheratan are from Al Sharatain, the dual form of Al Sharat, a Sign, referring to this and γ, the third star in the head, as a sign of the opening year; β having marked the vernal equinox in the days of Hipparchos, about the time when these stars were named. Bayer's Sartai is from this dual word ...
If we then add 5 more, day number 365 will be at the last glyph in line b7, and the first of these 5 days are evidently connected with binding the old year because Alrisha is the knot in Pisces. By the way, at Hanga Takaure it was noted that Gb7-28 was located in the center of what presumably is winter:
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