Toga 1. Winter season. Two seasons used to be distinguished in ancient times: hora, summer, and toga, winter. 2. To lean against somehing; to hold something fast; support, post supporting the roof. 3. To throw something with a sudden movement. 4. To feed oneself, to eat enough; e-toga koe ana oho ki te aga, eat well first when you go to work. Vanaga. 1. Winter. P Pau., Mgv.: toga, south. Mq.: tuatoka, east wind. Ta.: toa, south. 2. Column, prop; togatoga, prop, stay. Togariki, northeast wind. Churchill. Wooden platform for a dead chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden platform has been erected. Barthel 2. The expressions Tonga, Kona, Toa (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the quarter of an island or of the wind, between the south and west, and Tokelau, Toerau, Koolau (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the opposite directions from north to east - expressions universal throughout Polynesia, and but little modified by subsequent local circumstances - point strongly to a former habitat in lands where the regular monsoons prevailed. Etymologically 'Tonga', 'Kona', contracted from 'To-anga' or 'Ko-ana', signifies 'the setting', seil. of the sun. 'Toke-lau', of which the other forms are merely dialectical variations, signifies 'the cold, chilly sea'. Fornander.

Haga 1. Bay, fishing spot. (Figuratively) he haga o te ákuáku, it is the [evil] spirit's fishing spot, i.e. a place where they hide waiting for people to fall under their power. 2. To want, to love. Ku haga á i te vai, I want water, I am thirsty. Vanaga. 1. Bay, strait, anchorage, strand, beach. P Mq.: hana, haka, small bay, creek, cove. 2. Work, labor, employment, act, affair, creation, design, state, maker, fashion, manufacture, occupation, profession; to do, to make, to construct, to employ, to form, to manufacture, to fashion, to found, to be busy with; haga rakerake, crime; tagata haga ei mea, mercenary; haga no iti, to plot mischief; haga ke, to act contrary; haga takataka, to disjoin; haga nui, difficulty, fatigue, to weary; tuhi ki te haga, to give employment; haga hakahou, to make over, to renew, recovery; haga koroiti, to deal prudently; haga nuinui ke, to overburden. P Pau.: haga, to do, action, work, a deed. Mgv.: haga, aga, work, labor. Mq.: hana, haka, action, act, work, occupation. Ta.: haa, work, to labor, to make. 3. Agreement, conduct, liking, intention, desire, will; to resolve, to permit, to endeavor, to tolerate, to be willing, to wish, to approve; haga ihoiho, fixed desire; haga mai, haga no mai, to agree, to hearken favorably; tae haga, despite, involuntary, to refuse, to renounce; noho hakahaga, apathy. 4. = haka. Pau.: haga = haka. 5. Mgv.: haga, a fish. Mq.: haka, id. 6. Mgv.: haga, a fishtrap. Sa.: faga, a fish-trap, bird-cage. Ma.: hanganoa, a small basket for cooked fish. 7. Mgv.: haga, a measure of a fathom. Ta.: aa, to measure length. Mq.: aka, ana, to measure with the arms. Ma.: whanga, id. Churchill. Hagaava (haga 1 - ava 2), entrance of a harbor. Hagahaga: 1. (haga 2), work. 2. hesitation, to hesitate. Churchill.

I guess haga here can be translated as 'trap', a place from where movement no longer can continue. At the solstice the Polynesians on New Zealand compared Sun with a bird caught in a snare (at Orion) and at the other end of the year there could therefore be a fish-trap (Mgv. haga).

At Ca13-1 Meroro said kua haga te tagata, but at the end of February in the leap year he said only kua haga without adding te tagata. In my mind this could affirm my interpretation of tagata (the glyph glyph) as an indicator for the completed counting of a well ordered sequence of 'limbs' in a cycle of time. When all parts of the 'man' has been enumerated, when all his members have been extended like the fingers from a fist, then the counting has to begin anew (after first having once again closed the fist).

The star Matar (η Pegasi) clearly could mean 'to kill' or something like that. My opinion is based on some research decades ago into the possible correlations between such words as on one hand *matar (e.g. in 'matador' from the Spanish word for Bull-killer and in 'mate', the immobilized state of the king in chess) and on the other hand *mater (e.g. in 'madeira' as a name for the wine from the island with the same name, which in Portuguese means the island of 'wood and timbers').

... But Osiris's evil brother, Set, whose sister-wife was the goddess Nephtys, was mortally jealous both of his virtue and of his fame, and so, stealthily taking the measure of his good brother's body, he caused a beautifully decorated sarcophagus to be fashioned and on a certain occasion in the palace, when all were drinking and making merry, had it brought into the room and jestingly promised to give it to the one whom it should fit exactly. All tried, but, like the glass slipper of Cinderella, it fitted but one; and when Osiris, the last, laid himself within it, immediately a company of seventy-two conspirators with whom Set had contrived his plot dashed forward, nailed the lid upon the sarcophagus, soldered it with molten lead, and flung it into the Nile, down which it floated to the sea ...

To this we can then add *māter (e.g. in 'matter', the origin of materia, and in 'Alma Mater', Latin for the 'Nourishing Mother').

The 'sticks' (one black and the other multicoloured) which when 'spit at one another in a special way' stuck and 'rumpled and grew to become the mainland and Haida Gwaii', were pieces of wood, fruits of Mother Earth and thus capable of growth. The black stick represents her night side and the multicoloured stick her daytime side (with Sun present).

In the rongorongo idiom the henua type of glyph is drawn like a vertical wooden stick and probably it means a 'timber' (a 'limb') in time, a well-ordered season (nawaa). When measuring the advance of Sun (or of some other star) the simplest instrument was a vertical stick planted firmly in Mother Earth.

... I became curious about this star ... called Nuutuittuq [= 'never moves'] ... So, on the lee side of our uquutaq (a snow windbreak) I positioned a harpoon pointing directly at this particular star to see if it would move. In the morning I checked it and discovered that the Tukturjuit (Ursa Major) had changed their position completely but the harpoon still pointed at this star ... I had discovered the stationary star ...

"η, Double, 3.2, on the left forearm [sic!], is the Matar of Whitall's Planisphere, from Al Sa'd al Matar, the Fourtunate Rain; as such, however, ο was included with it." (Allen)

... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural disasters. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ...

If the name Matar for the star (η Pegasi, together with οmikron at the left knee) has a lucky (sa'd) meaning, then this should be because sky and earth here are joined in 'close embrace' through the medium of 'rain'.

The necessary 'death' which I perceive to be implicit in the word 'matar' could then be the 'swallowing of the eye' - the return from the abnormal state of distance between sky and earth, created by the forces of light (life) coming in between.

Sun dries up the Earth until nothing can grow any more. Thus he has to be 'killed'. And then, as the cycle of the year rolls on the rainy and fruitful embrace between sky and earth will result in their children being born in the tight space between them:

... Sky (rangi) and Earth (papa) lay in primal embrace, and in the cramped, dark space between them procreated and gave birth to the gods such as Tane, Rongo and Tu. Just as children fought sleep in the stifling darkness of a hare paenga, the gods grew restless between their parents and longed for light and air. The herculean achievement of forcing Sky to separate from Earth was variously performed by Tane in New Zealand and the Society Islands, by Tonofiti in the Marquesas and by Ru (Tu) in Cook Islands. After the sky was raised high above the earth, props or poles were erected between them and light entered, dispelling the darkness and bringing renewed life ...