Clearly this is a variant of hoea, GD43. The parallel glyphs confirm this:

H
P
Q

The hoea in P has light as a marker (three fingers on top). That and the fact that we have immediately preceding a hakatorou and immediately following a poporo generate the idea that this text sequence tells about change from light to darkness. On the other hand hakatorou in H and P perhaps tells us about increasing light (three fingers for a hand bent inwards as when eating; though not pointing to the mouth but towards the chest). However in P hoea has its fingers pointing in the opposite direction.

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