2. Metoro also used the word haha in connection with GD26, possibly thinking about the big gaping 'mouth'. Because haha means mouth (the oral cavity). And then haha also means to carry piggy-back.

He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga.

The back (tua) is turned to what just has passed to an end, passing the corner of a house a new sight will be in front. It is as when we pass through a door into a new room.

3. What has gone, is behind, has passed away, is like the mummy of an ancestor, an akuaku, from whose body the juices (the 'life') has left (after the body has been punctuated repeatedly).

"Embalming is known and practised with surprising skill in one particular family of chiefs. Unlike the Egyptian method, as described by Herodotus, it is performed in Samoa exclusively by women.

The viscera being removed and buried, they, day after day, anoint the body with a mixture of oil and aromatic juices. To let the fluids escape, they continue to puncture the body all over with fine needles.

In about two months, the process of desiccation is completed. The hair, which had been cut and laid aside at the commencement of the operation, is now glued carefully on to the scalp by a resin from the bush. The abdomen is filled up with folds of native cloth; the body is wrapped up with folds of the same material, and laid out on a mat, leaving the hands, face, and head exposed." (Turner and Stair according to Bierbach)