... An old native declared: 'Rehua is a star, a bird with two wings; one wing is broken. Under the unbroken wing is Te Waa-o-Tamarereti (the Canoe of Tamarereti is the Tail of Scorpius in this instance). When Rehua mates with his wife Pekehawani (a star close to Antares) the ocean is windless and motionless.'

The face of Sun never shows crescents (Sun is never lean), and his face will therefore always appear in the same perfectly rounded shape. When Sun mates at midsummer it should be a motionless time, because he must stop his canoe and enter into harbour, it is solstice. Thus the wind will cease to blow.

The broken wing could allude to how the 'stick' of the Rain God (Sun) will be broken. A king should have a 'stick' ('sceptre'), and if it is broken then he will not be able to rule any more. This idea must be kept in mind when we consider the meaning of the kuhane station Hatinga Te Koe, because Te Koe probably refers to a staff of bamboo and hati is 'to break'. This break in the rule of the king comes at the 10th station:

Waxing Moon

Close to Rano Kau
Te Pu Mahore	*Te Poko Uri*	*Te Manavai*	*Te Kioe Uri*

Along the southern coast
*Te Piringa Aniva*	*Te Pei*	*Te Pou*

Outside Waxing Moon
*Hua Reva*	*Akahanga*	*10 Hatinga Te Koe*	*Roto Iri Are*

Tama

One Tea

Hanga Takaure

Hati

Hati 1. To break (v.t., v.i.); figuratively: he hati te pou oka, to die, of a hopu manu in the exercise of his office (en route from Motu Nui to Orongo). 2. Closing word of certain songs.

Hahati. 1. To break (see hati). 2. Roughly treated, broken (from physical exertion: ku hahati á te hakari) 3. To take to the sea: he hahati te vaka.

Ha(ha)ti. To strike, to break, to peel off bark; slip, cutting, breaking, flow, wave (aati, ati, hahati); tai hati, breakers, surf; tumu hatihati, weak in the legs; hakahati, to persuade; hatipu, slate. P Pau.: fati, to break. Mgv.: ati, hati, to break, to smash. Mq.: fati, hati, id. Ta.: fati, to rupture, to break, to conquer.

Kohe

A plant (genus Filicinea) that grows on the coast.

Vave kai kohe, inaccessible.

*Kofe is the name for bamboo on most Polynesian islands, but today on Easter Island kohe is the name of a fern that grows near the beach.

When a bamboo staff breaks there will be consequences:

Several Asian cultures, including that of the Andaman Islands, believe that humanity emerged from a bamboo stem. In the Philippine creation myth, legend tells that the first man and the first woman were split open from a bamboo stem that emerged on an island created after the battle of the elemental forces (Sky and Ocean).

In Malaysian legends a similar story includes a man who dreams of a beautiful woman while sleeping under a bamboo plant; he wakes up and breaks the bamboo stem, discovering the woman inside.

The Japanese folktale 'Tale of the Bamboo Cutter' (Taketori Monogatari) tells of a princess from the Moon emerging from a shining bamboo section. Hawaiian bamboo ('ohe) is a kinolau or body form of the Polynesian creator god Kane.

An ancient Vietnamese legend tells of a poor, young farmer who fell in love with his landlord's beautiful daughter. The farmer asked the landlord for his daughter's hand in marriage, but the proud landlord would not allow her to be bound in marriage to a poor farmer. The landlord decided to foil the marriage with an impossible deal; the farmer must bring him a 'bamboo tree of one-hundred sections'. The benevolent god Bụt appeared to the farmer and told him that such a tree could be made from one-hundred sections from several different trees. Bụt gave the him four magic words to attach the many sections of bamboo: 'Khắc nhập, khắc xuất', which means 'put in immediately, take out immediately'. The triumphant farmer returned to the landlord and demanded his daughter. The story ends with the happy marriage of the farmer and the landlord's daughter. (Wikipedia)