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The break between the left and right parts of Aa4-72 confirms the interpretation of Aa4-71 as the 364th day of the year: Aa4-70 Aa4-71 Aa4-72 Aa4-73 Aa4-74 363 364 365 366 367 Hanga Te Pau ought then to be at Aa4-73, and the little bulb at bottom right could mean pau, while the general bent form possibly alludes to haga rave. We can compare with G: Gb5-12 haga rave inverted haga rave Aa4-73 We should notice the possible connection between Aa4-73 and the likewise with 6 'feathers' adorned Aa8-31: 290 Aa4-72 Aa4-73 Aa8-30 Aa8-31 365 366 657 658 In Aa8-31 the hua sign is up, in Aa4-73 down. In Aa8-31 it is drawn as the sail (Raá) of a moon crescent canoe, in Aa4-73 it is drawn - it can be imagined - as if it was the anchor stone at Hanga Te Pau (the 'rest in peace' bay for the 365-day long sun year).

In maitaki (Aa4-72) the bottom 'ball' probably represents a longer period than the top two - it is drawn bigger. The top two 'look forward', the vertical line is not in the center (as in the bottom 'ball'). The top should be later in time than the bottom (as any plant will show - except a grass), and we can read the top two balls as representing the coming half-years, while the bottom is the old year.

I have not classified Aa4-73 and the similar Aa4-77 as hanga rave. Neither have I any hyperlink from hanga rave to hua in the glyph catalogue. Looking at the hua glyphs in Tahua we immediately can identify a third 'hanga rave' hua, viz. Ab7-15:

 

Aa4-73	Aa4-77	Aa6-11	Aa6-27	Ab7-12	Ab7-15
366	370	472 = 8 * 59	488	1262	1265
(ordinal numbers counted from pito in Ab8-43)

These 6 evidently are 3 pairs because they are pairwise close to each other.

Adding ordinal numbers for the three 'hanga rave' hua glyphs seems to give a non-random result: 366 + 370 + 1265 = 2001 = 3 * 667 (and the total number of glyphs on Tahua is 1334 = 2 * 667).

A relationship between Aa6-11 and Aa4-73 is possible, because of the preceding twin vae kore glyphs (both reversed), 100 glyphs away from Aa4-71:

 

				3
Aa6-4	Aa6-5	Aa6-6	Aa6-7		Aa6-11
462	463	464	465		469
Aa4-70	Aa4-71	Aa4-72	Aa4-73	Aa4-74
363	364	365	366	367

The G text  has 472 glyphs and 472 - 364 = 108 = 2 * 54. In Tahua the logic seems to be the same, because Aa6-15 is a complex with henua ora in its middle, and then follows a great moa announcing the arrival of next season:

Aa6-8	Aa6-9	Aa6-10	Aa6-11	Aa6-12	Aa6-13	Aa6-14	Aa6-15	Aa6-16
466	467	468	469	470	471	472	473	474

The 'knob' (pau) at bottom in Aa6-11 has a horizontal line in its background, and the 'knob' seems to be a separate entity from the rest of hua. I guess winter solstice could be here - a flat time.

Aa6-4 (ua) has a location corresponding to hau tea in Aa4-70, as if to contrast dark and light. 462 - 108 = 354 (= 12* 29.5) and we should remember from the summary at ua:

... The ua glyph type seems to be associated with the arrival of the season when sun no longer is high in the sky. In the K calendar, for instance, the only ua glyph is the last glyph in what probably was regarded as the summer half of the year:

As to pau, it seems reasonable to derive that sign from hua, I think. The meaning of hua is 'next generation', which should connect to pau (like a little black seed pod).

And I guess the following may be relevant:

"To what extent the previous Hawaiian social customs were affected by this prolongued intercourse with their southern cousins, it is extremely difficult now to state from any allusions that may be found in the legends or Meles.

What the peculiar style of garment worn by Hawaiian females may have been before this time, I am unable to say, and there is nothing in the traditions to indicate; but all the legends concurrently testify that the style of garment known as the 'Pau', consisting of five thicknesses of kapa or cloth, and reaching from the waist to the knee, was first introduced and rendered fashionable in Hawaii by Luukia, the wife of Olopana, who, as previously stated, established himself as supreme chief on one of the Society group, probably Raiatea ..." (Fornander)

Possibly pau can be interpreted as the 5 black extracalendrical days beyond 360.