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.

Or it could mean the 'person' at left (a Rogo figure who for once is not drawn en face) is proclaiming: 'marama' - a way for Metoro to express '(let there be) light' (fiat lux):

Marama

1. Month, light. The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu poru, He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró. 2. Name of an ancient tribe. Maramara, ember. Vanaga.

Light, day, brightness, to glimmer; month; intelligent, sensible; no tera marama, monthly; marama roa, a long term; horau marama no iti, daybreak; hakamarama, school, to glimmer; hare hakamarama, school, classroom. P Mgv.: màràma, the light, daylight; maràma, wise, learned, instructed, moon. Mq.: maáma, light, broad day, bright, instructed, learned; meama, moon, month. Ta.: marama, moon, month. In form conditionalis this word seems derivative from lama, in which the illuminating sense appears in its signification of a torch. The sense of light, and of specifically the moon, appears in all Polynesia; in Futuna and Uvea the word signifies the world. The tropical extension to the light of intelligence is not found in Nuclear Polynesia, therefore not in the Proto-Samoan, but is a later Tongafiti development. Maramarama, bright; manava maramarama, intelligent. P Pau.: maramarama, intelligent. Ta.: maramarama, light, brightness. Churchill.

The month sense is found in Tahiti, Marquesas, Rarotonga and Maori associated with the moon signification, and in Hawaii is specifically dissociated therefrom to characterize a solar month. Churchill 2.

South of the equator the waning Moon is formed like the crescents in Ca6-17 and Ca6-19 while the waxing Moon looks like the crescents in Ca6-22--23.

From studying this Moon calendar it will become obvious that a 'night' (i.e. a day) is a standardized version of the waxing Moon crescent, but e.g. Ca6-23 is not such a 'night' - it is drawn in a slightly different form:


marama	Ca6-23

The reversed marama type of glyph possibly means 'absence of light', as for instance in glyph number 116 (day 7 in the Heka manzil):

Heka 5	6 (59)	7	8
July 13	14	15 (196)	16

Ca5-9	Ca5-10	Ca5-11 (116)	Ca5-12
te hokohuki erua		te marama	te maitaki
no star listed	Markab Puppis (114.7), Procyon (114.9)	σ Gemini (115.7), Pollux (116.2)	Azmidiske (117.4)


Ca5-11 (116)	Ca6-19 (159)

116 can be expressed as 16 weeks + 4 days, and the great waning moon crescent in July 15 could indicate the very last day of old Sun. 196 = 192 + 4 = 16 * 12 + 4.

Pollux, the 2nd and immortal of the Gemini twins, was rising heliacally a fraction of a day later, as if intent on carrying time forward anew when having received the 'will' to do so from Columba:

Heka 9	(63)	11	12
July 17	18	19	20 (201)

Ca5-13	Ca5-14	Ca5-15 (120)	Ca5-16
te henua	kua haga te mea ke	manu puoko i tona ahi	kua heu te huki
no stars listed		Drus (119.9)	Naos (121.3)

Phakt	α Columbae	2.65	34º 06' S	05h 38m	85.7
*Procyon*	α Canis Minoris	0.34	05° 21′ N	07h 37m	115.9

*Betelgeuze*	α Orionis	0.58	07° 24′ N	05h 52m	89.3
*Naos*	ζ Puppis	2.21	39° 52′ S	08h 02m	122.3

Heka 13	Alhena 1	2 (68)	3
July 21	22	23 (204)	24

Ca5-17 (122)	Ca5-18	Ca5-19	Ca5-20 (125)
hakahagana te honu	tagata moe hakarava hia	ka moe	hakapekaga mai
8h (121.7)	Tegmine (123.3)	Regor (123.7), Al Tarf (124.3)	Bright Fire (125.4)
Heap of Fuel (122.1)	Tegmine (123.3)	Regor (123.7), Al Tarf (124.3)	Bright Fire (125.4)