1. The one who in Polynesia brought light into this world of ours was Tane. If he corresponds to Marduk, who in Babylon 'rent the night in twain', a light dawns as to why there is a vai type of glyph early among our 16 glyphs:

 

 

The location is similar to the beginning of a new lunar month:

... When the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas ...

Tane personifies the 'land' half of the year but if he 'planted his staff' in the midst of the sky female he should be associated with her 'living water'.

... Tane, under his name of Tane-te-waiora, is the personified form of sunlight, and the waiora a Tane is merely an esoteric and emblematic term for sunlight. The word waiora carries the sense of health, welfare, soundness. In eastern Polynesia the words vai and vaiora mean 'to be, to exist'. Warmth, sayeth the Maori, is necessary to all forms of life, and the warmth emitted by Tane the Fertilizer is the waiora or welfare of all things.

... A considerable amount of respect was paid to the sun in Maori ritual performances, during which officiating priests always faced the east. Again, on the opening of the exceedingly tapu school of learning, the ceremonial opening of the house was commenced as the first rays of the rising sun reached the house. All higher classes of knowledge are connected with the sun; they emanated from Tane ... (Best, a.a.)

 

Maybe Eb7-2 is meant to be a combination of hipu and toki (staff):