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For the Polynesians, always living on islands, the reef with adjoining beach was a pleasant central place between the cold deep sea (moana) and the hot interior of the land (uta). This place was called tai:

moana tai uta
deep sea water and land mixed (koia) uplands
cold pleasant hot

From Metoro's kua moe ki te tai to the end of line Cb2 we should keep te tai in mind when trying to understand the text:

April 16 17 (107) 22 May 10 (130) 11
October 16 17 (290) November 9 10 (314)
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 (27) Ca2-24 Ca2-25 (51)
kua moe ki te tai. Te heke niu - kupega hia mai tu te niu - ku huki
POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9) Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8) no star listed
 Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4)
5 B.C. 76 B.C. 1709 B.C. 1780 B.C.
no star listed Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3 Alkalurops (233.1) Nusakan (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7)
'Tai'
Moe

To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill.

Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill.

Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill.

Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

The first word of Metoro when reading the front side (side a) of the tablet was koia ('mixed together'). However, it is possible that Metoro at Ca1-26 with his ki te tai (to the beach) meant the position at the very end of moana, where the reef is going steeply up and the big game are hunting the smaller ones.

The glyph type niu represents the coconut palm:

niu Ca2-24 Ca2-25

These valuable trees were growing on the sandy beaches:

(Copied from Antony Alpers, Legends of the South Seas.)

A net for catching fish is drawn at bottom right in this idyllic picture. A fishing net is kupega in Polynesian:

Kupega

He-tá i te kupega, to weave (a net). Hopu kupega, those who help the motuha o te hopu kupega in handling the fishing nets. Huki kupega, pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended. Mata kupega, mesh.  Te matu'a o te kupega, part of a net from which the weaving started. Te puapua kupega, the upper part of a fishing net.  Tau kupega, rope from which is hung the oval net used in ature fishing. Tuku kupega, a fishing technique: two men drag along the top of a fishing net doubled up, spread out on the bottom of a small cove, trapping the fish into the net. Vanaga.