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2. Also on page 39 the 4th item has been given a Capital Letter:

39)
14 hatu ngoio a taotao ika.
15 ara koreu a pari maehaeha.
16 hanga kuokuo a vave renga.
17 Opata roa a mana aia.
18 vai tara kai u(a) a ngao roaroa a ngao tokotokoa.
19 hia uka a hakairiiri a hakaturuturu.
20 hanga ohiro a pakipaki renga.
21 ko roto kahi a touo renga.
22 ko papa kahi a roro.
23 ko puna a tuki a hauhau renga
24 ko ehu ko mahatua a piki rangi a hakakihikihi mahina
25 ko maunga teatea a pua katiki.
26 ko te hakarava a hakanohonoho.
27 ko hanga nui a te papa tata ika.
28 ko tongariki a henga eha tunu kioe hakaputiti.ai
  ka haka punenenene henua mo opoopo o tau kioe
29 ko te rano a raraku.
30 ko oparingi a a uuri
31 ko motu kumu koka a kaoa

Possibly items 30 and 31 are crossed over because number 29 is suitable for an end station. Te Rano A Raraku is where the statues (moai) were hewed out from the rock and these statues represent dead ancestors. Number 29 (the dark night of the moon) is therefore appropritate.

Only one other item has Te, viz. number 26. This number could be the number of birth for a sequence referring to Sun.

1 Apina Iti 4 Okahu
2 Hanga O Uo 5 Ra Tahai
3 Hanga Roa 6 Ahu Akapu
  7 Kihikihi Rau Mea
8 Renga A Tini
9 Vai A Mei
10 Rua A Ngau
11 Roro Hau
12 Vai Poko
13 Te Hereke
14 Hatu Ngoio 17 Opata Roa

27

Hanga Nui

30

Oparingi
15 Ara Koreu 18 Vai Tara

28

Tongariki

31

Motu Kumu
16 Hanga Kuokuo 19 Hia Uka

29

Te Rano A Raraku
  20 Hanga Ohiro

 

21 Roto Kahi
22 Papa Kahi
23 Puna A Tuki
24 Ehu
25 Maunga Teatea
26 Te Hakarava

I have redmarked Te to focus our attention. 26 = 2 * 13 = (3 + 10) + (3 + 10), and by adding a 3rd group of 3 another Te station is reached. 29 = 3 + 10 + 3 + 10 + 3.

Hakarava means to add, and hakarava hakaturu means quadrangular. But hakarava is also equal to haka-rava and rava is to be complete, i.e. hakarava should basically mean 'to finish'. Presumably the idea is to indicate how the path of Sun is complete at Te Hakarava.

The sign Te together with 29 (and the names and the overall patterns of these two pages) are so clear that the pair of overcrossed items at the end of page 39 must have another function than to show that Te Rano A Raraku is an end station. Presumably, therefore, the intention is to show how the first 31 items in Makoi's list can be used to count the days of a month according to a solar calendar.

There are 19 text lines on page 39, and together with 17 lines on page 38 the total becomes 36. With the overcrossed Moto Kumu the cycle described on this pair of pages is evidently completed.

Moto

1. Pau.: moto, fist, a blow. Mgv.: moto, a blow of the fist. Ta.: moto id. Mq.: moto, to box, to spar. Sa.: moto, a blow of the fist. Ma.: moto, id. 2. Mgv.: moto, unripe, green, raw. Sa.: moto, green, unripe.

Kumu

To draw back, to withdraw. Kukumu, cheek; kukumu kivakiva, dourness.

Mgv.: kumu, the fist. Ma.: kumu, id. Kukumu, 1. To close the fist. Ta.: uumu, id. Sa.: 'u'u, id. Ma.: kumu, to clench the fist. 2. To press, to squeeze. Ta.: uumu, id. Kumukumu, to prepare small portions of food pressed with the hand. Ta.: umua, to make into balls, to press, to wring. Mq.: kumu-hei, a small bundle of fragrant herbs. Ma.: kumu, to bring in the hollow of the hand.

The closed fist (kumu) of course must signify 'closed'. The Samoan version 'u'u could be alluded to in Kuukuu, which name then will imply both hard as a fist (i.e. unripe, moto) and to draw back (kumu), viz. move into the 'cave' of mother earth. In other words Kuukuu could imply both beginning (fist) and end (withdrawal). The overcrossed Moto Kumu would then refer to the no longer visible Kuukuu. The mother has recalled (kuukuu) her offspring:

Kuukuu

To call one's young (of hens). Kókokóko, to crow, to cackle (of rooster or hen).

There are closed fists together with tagata (fully grown) and ure (penis) signs in Gb5-17 and Gb6-25 after the completed Jupiter cycler (399):

Gb6-17 (400) Gb6-18 Gb6-19 Gb6-20
Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28
Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4