The big chunk of text which I have chosen to inspect and which I call the Matariki calendar is not isolated from the rest of the text. Therefore it should not come as a surprise to find the two 'players' ('staff' and 'hand-sign') in more places, e.g. (Hb2-26--27):

No 'staff' here, but two hands in the air plus one hand in the air, plus elbow ornament. But we cannot pursue reincarnations of these two figures any more for the moment, we will return sooner or later.

We should however take notice of the fact (or is it just my imagination?) that there is a similar role for the shark. He appears with regularity in the seams between the 'event periods', just as the two 'hand / staff persons'. Is the shark there to mark the end of such periods?

In the calendar of the week (H / P) there is a 'blackened' henua immediately before a 'Clara-knife' (= haga), i.e. darkness + darkness. In the Keiti moon calendar there is 'half a canoe' + 'canoe', i.e. darkness + light. The shark stands for darkness; and the two above stand for light, now we can see it, three-fingered hands in the air. In the calendar of they year (G / K) each period ends with a solar cat + henua = light + light. They seem to come in pairs these flickering light-dark glyphs.