Eb8-35	Eb8-36	Eb8-37	Eb8-38	Eb8-35	Eb8-39
tagata	ihe mama ia	e hoea	mama mamae hia	ka maramarama	Mamae mamae hia.

The three 4-marked ovals amount to 12, maybe a sign that the year was divided into three parts. Another (better) reading, though, is that the 'true year' (360 days) has two parts: The first part ('atariki') being the half-year when light is arriving (both the three-fingered hand and the three-toed foot - signifying ligtht - are pointing forward), the second part being the half-year when darkness is arriving, the instrument for tattooing (hoea) being a mnemonic aid for remembering this. The 8 divisions of the 'true year' then is like the legs of an octopus (or of a spider) - remember Mo'orea, where this map is projected from time onto the space of an island.

The last of the three 4-marked ovals is thinner than the other two, presumably because there we find the four shorter additional periods, the dark and chaotic nights which must be added to those 360 regulated days. The very last night (to reach 365) is not there. It is a time of zero (0), indicated by Eb8-35, a time of death and therefore coming new life, the birth of a new year..

Metoro's words mama, mamae and maramarama also agree well with this. Maramara means 'embers', the coals that soon will renew the fire; perhaps the little oval inside the 'mountain' is a solar symbol; regarding mama, mamae, maramarama and other similar words, see my Polynesian dictionary. And then think of Pachamama.