1. I; kia ku, me. 2. Verb sign: ku ohoa, to keep out of the way, absence; ku higaa, convinced; ku taie te tai, to overflow, to go beyond; ku magaro, to reconcile. 3. ? tae he mau ku hoao, abundance. 4. Akaku, to be moved, affected; hakaku, to groan. Mgv.: ku, an exclamation, a cry used when one has hit the mark aimed at. Mq.: ú, an exclamation of sorrow. 5. Gaoku, to eat greedily. Mgv.: ku, to be satiated, glutted. Churchill.

Is this a sign of a very young bird or is it a sign of a very old bird?

... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims.

Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ...

The word hakagana is not in my wordlist. Next we can search for it among all Metoro's readings for Bishop Jaussen.Yes, it occurs twice more in Mamari and also once when Metoro read Tahua. First the latter:


Aa7-47	Aa7-48	Aa7-49	Aa7-50	Aa7-51	Aa7-52
ka pipiri te hetu	ma to ihe	ko te ariki moa	mo te hakagana - kia ia - i tuu ia ki te purega haga		tapamea

7-52 can allude to 52 weeks (364 days) or we can count 75 * 2 = 150. In either case these glyphs presumably indicate the days when the old year (or halfyear) is ending.

Pure at right in Aa7-51 has a cracked shell in front (like henua in Ca1-10) The shell with the tiny opening could here possibly have been used as a way to complete the picture of the bivalve while at the same time stating that the right shell is not yet present for real. Listening in an empty bivalve (pure) we can hear the sea murmur like the whispering of spirits talking.

Pure

Cowrie (Cypraea caput draconis); pure vaka, another type of cowrie, which can float on the sea like a diminutive boat (vaka). Vanaga.

1. To pray, to supplicate, invocation, prayer; hare pure, church, chapel; tae pure, irreverence; purega, prayer P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: pure, to pray. In Samoa, Tonga, Niuē, Futuna, Uvea, pule means to command. 2. A shell T. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mq.: pué, the porcelain shell. Ta.: pure, a mark. Purepure, spotted, dappled; ragi purepure, dappled sky. Purepurea, spotted. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mgv.: purepure, printed cloth; akapurepure, to paint in different colors. Mq.: puépué, covered with pale scars. Ta.: purepure, spotted, dappled. Churchill.

Pureva, rock, stone (small enough to be thrown by hand). Vanaga. Pureva, to throw a stone. Ta.: Pureva, to be on the eve of going. Ha.: puleva, to float here and there. Churchill.

Pau.: Pure-hiva, a butterfly. Mgv.: pure-rehue, id. Ta.: pure-hua, a moth. Mq.: pure-hua, id. Ma.: pure-hua, id. Churchill.

"At Mangaia the spirits of those who ignobly died 'on a pillow' wandered about disconsolately over the rocks near the margin of the sea until the day appointed by their leader comes (once a year).

Many months might elapse ere the projected departures of the ghost took place. This weary interval was spent in dances and revisiting their former homes, where the living dwell affectionately remembered by the dead. At night fall they would wander amongst the trees and plantations nearest to these dwellings, sometimes venturing to peep inside. As a rule these ghosts were well disposed towards their own living relatives; but often became vindictive if a pet child was ill-treated by a stepmother or other relatives etc. ...

Eventually the spirits would depart from known reinga, spirit leaping-places. Such leaping-places also existed on other islands. Even after this departure some spirit intrusions from the underworld were possible." (Oral Traditions)

Reading Mamari Metoro said hakagana also at Cb5-3 and at Cb9-9:


Cb5-1	Cb5-2 (488)	Cb5-3
July 20	21	22 (204)
Heka 12	13 (66)	Alhena 1
Te ragi	tagata - ragi	kua hakagana - ki te maro


Cb5-4	Cb5-5	Cb5-6	Cb5-7 (493)
July 23	24	25	26 (208)
Alhena 2	3	4	5
tagata mau matagi	ihe toga maa	ura hia	tagata maú kihikihi erua


Gb9-5	Cb9-6	Cb9-7 (599)
November 7	8	9 (314)
Simak 5	6	7 (177)
ki te Rei - ku mata kuku	te kava	ka kake te manu


Cb9-8	Cb9-9	Cb9-10	Cb9-11 (603)
November 10	11	12	13 (318)
Simak 8	9	10	11 (181)
te kava	hakagana ki te maro	te kava	hakatino hia

Kava implies the dark time when a new king is due to be inaugurated.

Saad Al Akhbia 9	10	11 (322)	12	13
April 1	2	3 (93)	4	5

Ca1-11	Ca1-12	Ca1-13	Ca1-14	Ca1-15
te Rei	kua hakagana	te henua	honu	te henua

471				110
471	Cb5-1	Cb5-2 (488)	Cb5-3	110
106	July 20	21	22 (204)	110
- 260	Heka 12	13 (66)	Alhena 1	110
	Te ragi	tagata - ragi	kua hakagana - ki te maro


Cb9-8 (600)	Cb9-9	Cb9-10	Cb9-11
November 10	11	12	13 (318)
Simak 8	9	10	11 (181)
te kava	hakagana ki te maro	te kava	hakatino hia

Without doubt hakagana has to do with calendar time.

Counting from henua in Ca1-15 to the great Ragi in Cb5-1 the distance is 472 glyphs.

Counting from kua hakagana at the poor bird in Ca1-12 to kua hakagana at Cb5-3 the distance is 204 - 92 = 112 days (16 weeks). But when we add a year it becomes 112 + 365 = 477 (= 300 days + 3 * 59 nights). 3 * (100 + 59) = 477.

Counting from Saad Al Akhbia 13 to Heka 12 results in 65 - 324 = -260 (= -20 * 13) nights. But then we have not added a year.

From kua hakagana at Cb5-3 to hakagana ki te maro at Cb9-9 the distance is also 16 weeks.

Hakagana obviously is haka-gana, to 'make gana'. Searching again in my wordlist, now without the first part of the word, I can find hints:

Ana

1. Cave. 2. If. 3. Verbal prefix: he-ra'e ana-unu au i te raau, first I drank the medicine. Vanaga.

1. Cave, grotto, hole in the rock. 2. In order that, if. 3. Particle (na 5); garo atu ana, formerly; mee koe ana te ariki, the Lord be with thee. PS Sa.: na, an intensive postpositive particle. Anake, unique. T Pau.: anake, unique, to be alone. Mgv.: anake, alone, single, only, solely. Mq.: anake, anaé, id. Ta.: anae, all, each, alone, unique. Anakena, July. Ananake, common, together, entire, entirely, at once, all, general, unanimous, universal, without distinction, whole, a company; piri mai te tagata ananake, public; kite aro o te mautagata ananake, public; mea ananake, impartial; koona ananake, everywhere. Churchill.

Splendor; a name applied in the Society Islands to ten conspicious stars which served as pillars of the sky. Ana appears to be related to the Tuamotuan ngana-ia, 'the heavens'. Henry translates ana as aster, star. The Tahitian conception of the sky as resting on ten star pillars is unique and is doubtless connected with their cosmos of ten heavens. The Hawaiians placed a pillar (kukulu) at the four corners of the earth after Egyptian fashion; while the Maori and Moriori considered a single great central pillar as sufficient to hold up the heavens. It may be recalled that the Moriori Sky-propper built up a single pillar by placing ten posts one on top of the other. Makemson.

Gaga

Exhausted, strengthless, to faint. Vanaga.

To faint, to fall in a swoon, death struggle. Gagata, crowd, multitude, people, population. Churchill.

Mgv.: A bird. Mq.: kaka, id. Churchill.

Pau.: Gagahere, herbs, grass. Ta.: aaihere, herbs, bush. Ma.: ngahere, forest. Pau.: Gagaoa, confused noise. Ta.: aaoaoa, noise of a rising assembly. Churchill.

... the progeny of Tu increased: Rongo, Tane, Tangaroa, Rongomai, Kahukura, Tiki, Uru, Ngangana, Io, Iorangi, Waiorangi, Tahu, Moko, Maroro, Wakehau, Tiki, Toi, Rauru, Whatonga - these were the sons ... (Moriori myth of creation accoding to Legends of the South Seas)

Hakagana could mean to 'make (and raise) star pillar(s)' - such as in the Tahitian star pillar (ana) list - where such 'pillars' are both prominent stars in the sky and cardinal signs in calendar time. The Moriori fishermen on Chatham Islands connected Ngangana with the 8th (among 19) sons of Tu.

Alhena 1 seems to be a good place for such a pillar, because in rongorongo times its ruling star rose heliacally in day 184 (and 40 * 6 = 240):


Gb6-21	Gb6-22	*Gb6-23 (104)**	Gb6-24
ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7), τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)	ψ8 Aurigae (103.2)	Alhena (103.7), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)	Adara (104.8), ω Gemini (105.4)
July 1	2	3 (184)	4
Al Tuwaibe' 6	7	8	9 (49)

July 22 (7-22) equals Alhena 1 and this was close to 8h.


Gb7-12	*Gb7-13 (122)**	Gb7-14
Naos (121.3)	Heap of Fuel (122.1)	Tegmine (123.3)
July 20	8h (121.7)	22
Heka 12	13 (66)	Alhena 1

... This [ζ Cancri at Ga2-29] lies on the rear edge of the Crab's shell, and is known as Tegmine, In the Covering; but, if the word be allowable at all, it should be Tegmen, as Avienus is supposed to have had it. Ideler, however, said that Avienus was referring to the covering shell of the marine object, and not to the stellar ...

The kua hakagana bird in Ca1-12 is probably also at a good place:

April 1	2	3 (93)	235	November 25 (329)	26
			235
Ca1-11	Ca1-12	Ca1-13	235	Ca9-21 (249)	Ca9-22