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It looks as if Fomalhaut and ι Phoenicis rose practically simultaneously:

However, there is a week from tagata in Ca13-6 to the same tagata in Ca13-13 and there are 9 days from Fomalhaut to ι Phoenicis:

Saad Balaa 5 6 7   8 (293) 3
March 2 3 (63) 4 (429) 5
Ca13-4 Ca13-5 (348) Ca13-6 Ca13-7 (350)
tagata ma te kihikihi koia ra kua oho manu rere
τ Aquarii (345.7), ι Cephei (346.0), γ Piscis Austrini (346.5) λ Aquarii (346.5), Scheat Aquarii (347.0), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4) Fomalhaut (347.8) Scheat Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), Markab Pegasi (349.5)
September 2 3 4 5 (248)
Alterf 4 5 (140) 6 7
no star listed Alkes (165.6), Merak (166.2) 11h (167.4) no star listed
Dubhe (166.7)
Saad Balaa 12 13 Saad Al Saud 1 2 (300) 3
March 9 10 (70) 11 12 13
Ca13-11 (354) Ca13-12 Ca13-13 Ca13-14 Ca13-15
e toru gagata, tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, tuhuga marakapa (Jaussen: kapa chant) - ma te hokohuki te tapamea - te kihikihi te vaha erua - te maro tagata kara te roturotu - te maro ka pu te niu - mai tae huki hia ka pu te niu
χ Aquarii (352.6), ο Cephei (353.3) Kerb (353.6) no stars listed ι Phoenicis (357.3)
September 9 10 11 12 13 (256)
Alterf 11 12 13 Dschuba 1 2 (120)
κ Crateris (172.5) no star listed ο¹ Centauri (173.8), ξ Hydrae (174.3) ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8), θ Crateris (175.0), ω Virginis (175.3), ι Crateris (175.5  ο Hydrae (176.1

The wavy wing of manu rere in glyph 350 (Ca13-7) evidently returns in the wavy wing of tagata in Ca13-13 (356).

Here Metoro said tagata kara te roturotu (man with a flapping 'wing'):

Rotu

To throng, to flock, to crowd, used of people gathering in great numbers for a feast, for mourning, for working, etc. he-rotu, he-tatagi, the mourners are flocking together; he-rotu i te umu, they are crowding around the earth oven; he-rotu, he aga, they come to work in throngs. Roturotu, to clap hand, to applaud. Vanaga.

Roturotu: 1. To clap, to wink. PS Pau.: rotu, to strike the water. Mgv: rotu, to beat the sea in order to frighten fish into a net, to beat a drum. Mq.: ótu, to drive fish into the seine. Ta.: rotu, to strike. Sa.: lotu, to make a hollow sound in the water with the hand. 2. To take to pieces. Churchill.

I guess the undulating bird wing has to do with getting rid of the water after emerging from a plunge (ruku).

The same idea of undulating waves may have been hinted at when the upside down fishy mouth (in February 13, day 14 * 29½ = 413) has been inverted in *Qa7-16:

*Ha7-32 *Ha7-33 *Ha7-34 *Ha7-35 *Ha7-36 (380) *Ha7-37
378 / 3 = 126 (= 2 * 63) 381 / 3 = 127
*Qa7-13 *Qa7-14 (268) *Qa7-15 *Qa7-16 *Qa7-17 *Qa7-18
134 270 / 2 = 135 136

The triplet of haka-ariki wise men who are at left in Ca13-11 (where 13 * 11 = 143 = 365 - 222) have been enumerated by Metoro as tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, and tuhuga marakapa. Maybe they had caculated a star of birth was soon to arrive:

25 Star α Hydrae Horse
Alphard August 10 (222) 227 March 26 (450) 136
Saad Al Akhbia 1 2 3 (314) 4
March 24 25 (450) 26 27
*Ca14-6 *Ca14-7 (370) *Ca14-8 *Ca14-9 (372)
kua ruku te manu te kihikihi - te hoea te kihikihi - o te vai - te kihikihi te vero
θ Andromedae (2.7) no star listed Ankaa, κ Phoenicis (5.0) λ Phoenicis (6.3)
Alphard (450)
September 24 25 (268) 26 27
Dschuba 13 Azzubra 1 (132) 2 3
Intrometida (187.4), Acrux (187.5) γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), Algorab (188.5)  Gacrux (188.7), γ Muscae (189.0), Avis Satyra (189.3), Asterion (189.5) Kraz (189.7), α Muscae (190.2)

March 25 was spring equinox according to Julius Caesar.

 

Tahu

To assist. T Ma.: tahutahu, to attend upon. Tahuga, pair, to share out, to put in order, to distribute. Hakatahuga, to put in pairs, to arrange. P (Metathetic from stem tufa). Mgv.: tahua, a collection of things properly classified and kept in order. Mq.: tauna, a couple. Churchill.

Pau.: tahua. 1. Field of battle. Ta.: tahua, id. 2. Floor. Ta.: tahua, id. Tahuga, wise, capable, doctor, artisan. Mgv.: tuhuga, wise, instructed, adroit. Mq.: tuhuna, wise, instructed, artisan. Sa.: tufuga, carpenter. Ma.: tohunga, adroit, wise, priest. Tahutahu, sorcerer. Ta.: tahu, sorcerer. Mgv.: tahu. 1. A tenant farmer. Ma.: tahu, opulent, possessing property. 2. To stir up a fire. Ta.: to build a fire, to light. Mq.: tahu, to light a fire. Sa.: tafu, id. Ma.: to set on fire, to kindle, to cook. Tahuna, a shallow, shoal, bank. Mq.: tahuna, beach gravel, shingle. Sa.: tafuna, a rocky place in the sea. Ma.: a shoal, a beach. Tohua, a place of public assembly. Mq.: tohua, public place, soil, land. Mq.: tahuahi, the servant in charge of the fire. Ha.: kahuahi, id. Churchill.

Ta.: tahuhu, ridgepole. Ma.: tahuhu, id. Mgv.: tohuhu, a ridgepole. Mq.: tohuhu, ridge, roofing. Churchill.

Tahua, sloping stone surface of ahu. Vanaga.

T. Tahua, board, plank. Tahu'a, T. Priest, artist. OR. Tahua mimi, bladder. Fischer.

Mara

To start rotting, going bad (e.g. a lobster, a fish). See also mamara. Vanaga.

Mgv.: mara, open land, cultivated field. Mq.: mara, maa, land under tilth. Ta.: amara, the first stone of a marae, etc. Sa.: mala, a new plantation. Ma.: mara, land under tilth. Churchill.

Sa.: malae, the town green. Nukuoro: malae, a cleared space, an open place, a plantation. To.: malae, a gree, a grass plot ... Ha.: malae, smooth (as a plain) ... Ma.: marae, an inclosed place in front of a house. Ta.: marae, the sacred place of worship ... Vi.: mara, a burying place ... In note 261 I have advanced the opinion that malae is in form a conditional derivative of lae. This holds of the signification found in Nuclear Polynesia. The secondary sense which the Tongafiti carried to eastern Polynesia has obscured the lae element; but the sacrosanct content of the marae in the four-godded theology of eastern Polynesia is after all but a logical outgrowth of the Nuclear Polynesian malae as the civic center of social life where god is sole, surpreme - and Lucretian ... Churchill 2.

Rae

First (always follows the noun): te tagata ra'e, the first man; (the other ordinal numerals, second, third, etc., precede the noun. Translator's note: ra'e is likely the noun which means forehead, face, in other Polynesian language, e.g. Tahitian rae). Vanaga.

1. Commencement, beginning, to strike up, to essay, to occasion, to proceed, former, primitive, precedent, predecessor, first-fruits; rae ki te mea hou, to innovate; oho rae, to march at the head; tagata rae, advance guard, van; raega, commencement, beginning, occasion, first-fruits. 2. To attack, to provoke; kakai rae, toua rae, to provoke. Churchill.

Kapa

Mgv.: a song for the dead, chant. Mq.: kapa, a heathen song. Mgv.: aka-kapakapa, an eager desire balked by timidity. Ta.: apaapa, to flutter the wings. To.: kabakaba, id. Ma.: kapakapa, to flutter. Churchill.

Tu.: Kapakapa, portion, particle. Ta.: apaapaa, fragment, bit, chip. Churchill.

In Polynesia gliding flight is expressed by lele, flight on flapping wing by kapa. In Nuclear Polynesia kapa does not pass into the wing sense except through the aid of a composition memeber kau. In Samoan 'au we find this to mean a stalk, a handle; in reference to the body its sense as that of some projecting member is exhibited in 'aualuma (the 'au in front) as a very delicate euphemism for the penis. So 'apa'au would mean literally the projecting member that flaps. Churchill 2.

Az Zubana 3 (199) 99 Saad Balaa 12 (297)
December 1 (335) March 9 (434)
Ca9-27 (255) Ca13-11 (354)
etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua e toru gagata, tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, tuhuga marakapa - ma te hokohuki te tapamea - te kihikihi
Denebakrab (254.7), ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4) χ Aquarii (352.6), ο Cephei (353.3)
June 2 (153) 98 September 9 (252)
Pleione 3 (17) Alterf 11 (116)
no star listed κ Crateris (172.5)
Gredi (617)

But if Gredi - α Capricorni - was culminating in early September this could hardly indicate the 'year of the goat' was ending. The Goat ought to signify the winter half of the year.

Hakaariki in Ca13-11 is drawn as if to illustrate the colour white (Moon) - like tagata in Ca13-13 - and the difference 100 days from hakaariki in December 1 could mean glyph 354 signifies the birth of a new Moon year in March 9.