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Right ascension 2h coincides with a raaraa (no Sun, raa) type of glyph:

Almuqaddam 10 11 (700) 12 (336)
April 15 16 (471) 17 (107)
Ca1-25 Ca1-26 Ca2-1 (27)
kiore ki te huaga kua moe ki te tai. Te heke
    Benetnash (208.5)
Polaris (26.6)
13 Al Muakhar 1 2 3 4
April 18 19 20 21 (*31) 22
Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 (30) Ca2-5 Ca2-6
erua tagata te henua tagata oho ki tona huaga kua oho
  2h (30.4)    
Raa

Sun; day; i te raá nei, today; raá îka, good day for fishing. Vanaga.

1. Sun. 2. Day. 3. Time. 4. Name of sub-tribe. Fischer.

Te manu i te raá = comet. Barthel.

'... The substitution of the sun for the sail, both of which are called ra or raa in Polynesia, is a remarkable feature in Easter Island art ... ' Heyerdahl 3.

1. The sun; raa ea mai, raa puneki, sunrise; raa tini, raa toa, noon. P Mgv., Ta.: ra, the sun. Mq.: a, id. 2. Day, date; a raa nei a, to-day, now; raa i mua, day before. P Mgv., Ta.: ra, a day. Mq.: a, id. Churchill.

'... The chief thus makes his appearance at Lakeba from the sea, as a stranger to the land. Disembarking at the capital village of Tubou, he is led first to the chiefly house (vale levu) and next day to the central ceremonial ground (raaraa) of the island ...' (Islands of History)

Ta.: toraaraa, to raise up. Churchill 2.

The manzil Al Muakhar is ruled by Pollux and possibly this explains why we can see erua tagata (two persons). The one in Ca2-2 could represent Castor, the earlier and mortal of the Twins. He has 4 (bad luck) fingers which are spreading out (as life does) and 2 of them are closing to form ihe tau.

Ca2-2 ihe tau
Ka3-6 Ka3-7 Ka3-8 Ka3-9 Ka3-10
Aludra (111.1)  Gomeisa (111.6), ρ Gemini (112.1) Castor (113.4)   Markab Puppis (114.7), Procyon (114.9)
July 10 11 12 (193) 13 14
Heka 2 3 4 5 6 (59)
Ka3-11 (52) Ka3-12 Ka3-13 Ka3-14
σ Gemini (115.7), Pollux (116.2) Azmidiske (117.4)    
July 15 16 17 18
Heka 7 8 9 10

Metoro said oho 5 times when reading line Ca2.

Oho

1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga.

1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.

The person in Ca2-6 indeed is departing (oho) into the past (to the left). In the preceding Ca2-5 the word tona is used:

Toona

Toona, his, her. Vanaga.

Tona, toona, his. Churchill.

What does it mean? Oho ki tona huaga? To return to his offspring? I remember from Popol Vuh:

.. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator.

Could tagata oho ki tona huaga possibly be translated as 'the man will return in his son'. Ki can mean in. And an apple is seldom found far from the tree.

Ki

Ki. To, towards (a place, a person); after (time); for, in order to ...  Vanaga.

. To say, to speak; word, language; will, wish (verbally expressed): e-hakarogo koe ki te kî o toou matu'a, obey you father's will. Vanaga.

1. In, toward, to, for, at; ki ra, there; ki ra hoki, exactly there; ki aho, outside; ki roto, within, into, inside, among. 2. In order that. 3. To say, to speak, to chat, to pronounce, to respond; argument, conversation, description, doctrine, expression, word, relation; ki veveveve, voluble; ki vaiapuga, nonsense, to speak much and say nothing; ki ihoiho, to speak forcefully. Churchill.

Metoro's ki could alternatively be , to speak. Tagata oho kî tona huaga - the man (tagata) says () go away (oho) to his offspring.

But neither of these ideas seems to correspond to what the glyph says. And huaga is a mystery, perhaps it is not equal to hua-ga as I previously thought. Ca1-25 and Ca2-5 are basically similar:

Almuqaddam 10 5 Al Muakhar 3
April 15 21
Ca1-25 Ca2-5 (31)
kiore ki te huaga tagata oho ki tona huaga

In Ca1-25 I saw 'the creation of a new shell':

... Becoming aware at last of his own existence and oppressed by a yearning loneliness Ta'aroa broke open his shell and, looking out, beheld the black limitless expanse of empty space. Hopefully, he shouted, but no voice answered him. He was alone in the vast cosmos. Within the broken Rumia he grew a new shell to shut out the primeval void.

Maybe huaga is short for hua-aga, creating a (new shell) the same, hua, as before:

Aga

Work; to work, to make, to build, to create: O te atua i-aga-ai i te ragi, i te henua. God made heaven and earth. Vanaga.

Agahuru (hagahuru, hagauru). Agai (hagai). Agatahi (aga-tahi) one, (hagatahi); agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday; hagatahi ahi, yesterday. Churchill.

Hua

1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son, hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel. Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct descendents; contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose': huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum). Vanaga.

1. The same; ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same, to return, to recommence.  2. To bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua, to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein, tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.: hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples. Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau, entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau, id. Churchill.

1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3. Tā hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'. Fischer.

Offspring (hua) is a reassuring symbol for the eternal return of the cycle of time, when all will be as before:

... 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with.

Two children of men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt. Their names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from this human pair will come a great population which will fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.'

Kiore ki te huaga could be the 'Rat' (kiore) speaks () to the (new) 'shell' (huaga). The sitting figure has his mouth open.

Tagata oho ki tona huaga could be 'the man (tagata) who is departing (oho) speaks to his creation (huaga)'.

We could try with the stars:

Almuqaddam 10 5 Al Muakhar 3
April 15 21
Ca1-25 Ca2-5 (31)
kiore ki te huaga tagata oho ki tona huaga
Achernar (23.3) Hamal (30.5)

There is a 'horn' at top left in the 'eye' hanging in front in Ca2-5, and Achernar is far down south. But the RA values are slightly too low.

The 'first point of Aries' is a old standard expression for 0h:

... Right ascension is the celestial equivalent of terrestrial longitude. Both right ascension and longitude measure an angle that increases toward the east as measured from a zero point on an equator. For longitude, the zero point is the Prime Meridian on the geographic equator; for right ascension, the zero point is known as the first point of Aries, which is the place in the sky where the Sun crosses the celestial equator at the March equinox.

and Achernar is at the very bottom of Eridanus: