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2. In E we can guess there could be 8 dark (·) nights beginning with the end of line a7:

...
Ea7-38 Ea7-39 (256) Ea8-1 Ea8-2
te tamaiti te raa - te ragi E tamaiti ki te raa - te henua
...
Ea8-3 Ea8-4 (260) *Ea8-5 *Ea8-6
tagata haga ko te rima ki te vai (te hupee)
*Ea8-7 *Ea8-8 (264) *Ea8-9 *Ea8-10
kua tuu te hokohuki - te kiore te hoko huki - te kiore te nuku kua haga - ki vai o ura hia

Metoro said the left side of *Ea8-7 meant kua tuu te hokohuki, a rather obscure comment which I interpret as a statement that a period of 'Hokohuki' was arriving (standing up, tuu), see at Hanga Hoonu:

Aa1-19 Aa1-21 Aa1-25 Aa1-31 Aa1-36
i uhi tapamea e uhi tapamea e uhi tapamea e uhi tapamea e uhi tapamea
Aa1-17 Aa1-23 Aa1-27 Aa1-29 Aa1-34
ka tapamea e hokohuki ki te henua ma te hokohuki te tapamea
Tuu

1. To stand erect. 2. Mast, pillar, post. Van Tilburg.

1. To stand erect, mast, pillar, post; tuu noa, perpendicular; tanu ki te tuu, to set a post; hakatu tuu, to step a mast; tuu hakamate tagata, gallows; hakatuu, to erect, to establish, to inactivate, to form, immobile, to set up, to raise. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: tu, to stand up. 2. To exist, to be. Mgv.: tu, life, being, existence. 3. To accost, to hail; tuu mai te vaka, to hail the canoe. Mgv.: tu, a cry, a shout. 4. To rejoin; tuua to be reunited. 5. Hakatuu, example, mode, fashion, model, method, measure, to number. PS Sa.: tu, custom, habit. Fu.: tuu, to follow the example of. 6. Hakatuu, to disapprove; hakatuu riri, to conciliate, to appease wrath. 7. Hakatuu, to presage, prognostic, test. 8. Hakatuu, to taste. 9. Hakatuu, to mark, index, emblem, seal, sign, symbol, trace, vestige, aim; hakatuu ta, signature; akatuu, symptom; hakatuua, spot, mark; hakatuhaga, mark; hakatuutuu, demarcation. Churchill.

1. To arrive: tu'u-mai. 2. Upright pole; to stand upright (also: tutu'u). 3. To guess correctly, to work out (the meaning of a word) correctly: ku-tu'u-á koe ki te vânaga, you have guessed correctly [the meaning of] the word. 4. To hit the mark, to connect (a blow). 5. Ku-tu'u pehé, is considered as... ; te poki to'o i te me'e hakarere i roto i te hare, ku-tu'u-á pehé poki ra'ura'u, a child who takes things that have been left in the house is considered as a petty thief. Tu'u aro, northwest and west side of the island. Tu'u haígoígo, back tattoo. Tu'u haviki, easily angered person.Tu'u-toga, eel-fishing using a line weighted with stones and a hook with bait, so that the line reaches vertically straight to the bottom of the sea. Tu'utu'u, to hit the mark time and again. Tu'utu'u îka, fish fin (except the tail fin, called hiku). Vanaga.

... To the Polynesian and to the Melanesian has come no concept of bare existence; he sees no need to say of himself 'I am', always 'I am doing', 'I am suffering'. It is hard for the stranger of alien culture to relinquish his nude idea of existence and to adopt the island idea; it is far more difficult to acquire the feeling of the language and to accomplish elegance in the diction under these unfamiliar conditions. Take for an illustrative example these two sentences from the Viti: Sa tiko na tamata e kila: there are (sit) men who know. Sa tu mai vale na yau: the goods are (stand) in the house. The use of tu for tiko and of tiko for tu would not produce incomprehensibility, but it would entail a loss of finish in diction, it would stamp the speaker as vulgar, as a white man ... Savage life is far too complex; it is only in rich civilization that we can rise to the simplicity of elemental concepts ... Churchill 2.

Huki

1. Pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended: huki kupega. 2. Digging stick. 3. To set vertically, to stand (vt.). 4. Huki á te mahina, said of the new moon when both its horns have become visible. Vanaga.

1. To post up, to publish. 2. To cut the throat (uki). Mq.: Small sticks which close up the ridge of a house. Ha.: hui, the small uniting sticks in a thatched house.  Churchill.

Standing upright. Barthel.

M. Spit for roasting. Te Huki, a constellation. Makemson.

Hukihuki. 1. Colic. 2. To transpierce, a pricking. 3. To sink to the bottom. Churchill.

Maybe it was 'Dawn' which rose up from the waves, i.e. Aphrodite as Morning Star:

 phase

observed periods

periods in the Mayan 'map'

difference

evening star

263

250

- 13

black

8

8

0

morning star

263

236

- 27

black

50

90

+ 40

sum

584

584

0

263 could refer to Venus either as morning star or as evening star. However, the season marked by ihe tau (left in *Ea8-7) and by the tall nuku (*Ea8-9) - which together serve to underline the position of *Ea8-8 (where 8 * 8 = 64 = 264 - 200) - ought to be at the opposite end compared to 'Dawn'.

South of the equator the heliacal rising of Sadalsud is not announcing the arrival of a season of plenty but rather a sign of approaching winter:

Gb2-7 Gb2-8 (264) Gb2-9 Gb2-10
 Sadalsud (325.9)  Castra (327.2)  Bunda (327.5), Nashira (328.0)  κ Capricorni (328.7), 46 Capricorni (329.3)
'February 10 '11 '12 '13 (409)
Al Baldaah 13. Saad Al Thabib 1 2 (272) 3 (*409)