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In Tahua several variants of hau tea appear, for instance in Aa4-70:
Aa4-63 Aa4-64 Aa4-65 Aa4-66 Aa4-67
Aa4-68 Aa4-69 Aa4-70 Aa4-71 Aa4-72

To begin with noting the deviations from the normal hau tea: Of the three vertical lines only the central one is straight, the other two are tending outwards, expanding. The meaning is probably 'spreading out' (meaning growth). A comparison with the other hau tea glyphs in Tahua gives an unequivocal result: those with this 'spreading out' sign are located exclusively on side a (the side where sun has a prominent place). Sun generates growth.

Another important sign is how the left vertical line is a separate entity, thereby becoming not real, only a fiction (in the same way as the central line is only theoretical). The horizon in the west is no reality during spring. What does youth care about saving for their retirement?

Neither mixed glyphs nor compounds are shown. There are 8 + 4 = 12 glyphs on side a and 15 glyphs on side b, altogether 27 glyphs of this kind. Those with double 'suns' are marked with red.

Aa2-74 Aa3-15 Aa3-32 Aa4-18 Aa4-43 Aa4-46 Aa4-54 Aa4-70
164 190 207 269 294 297 305 321
Aa5-5 Aa5-63 Aa7-79 Aa8-51
338 396 579 636
Ab1-3 Ab1-33 Ab1-53 Ab2-52 Ab3-46 Ab3-53 Ab4-25 Ab4-49
673 703 723 804 883 890 939 963
Ab4-79 Ab5-8 Ab6-29 Ab6-71 Ab7-64 Ab8-48 Ab8-53
993 1002 1103 1145 1230 1298 1303
579 = 20 * 29 - 1

4 * 49 = 196 = 7 * 28, and 963 - 579 = 384 = 16 * 24.

There ought to be 16 hau tea on side b, because it is the number for the moon which corresponds to 12 for the sun (and because 28 should be the sum). I guess the missing one is Ab1-2:

 

Ab1-2

Its ordinal number is 672 = 4 * 168 = 24 * 28. I decide to add a note to that effect:

 

The result of the investigation above lacks one glyph, because there ought to be 16 hau tea on side b (the number for the moon corresponding to 12 for the sun), which would raise the total from 27 to the more acceptable 28.

The missing hau tea is probably Ab1-2:

Ab1-2
672 = 4 * 168 = 24 * 28

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We have earlier (at viri) observed how Aa4-70 is occupying the expected place of the '4th viri' (Aa5-7) - which glyph was described by me as '... slightly bent forward, as if it was old':
100 361 18
Ab7-26 Ab8-43 Aa4-70 Aa5-7
16 * 29 + 19

Aa4-70 is the 8th and last hau tea of its kind, then comes two hau tea with a new sign, where the right vertical line is short:

Aa5-5 Aa5-63
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Youthful spring is reaching maturity, in Aa5-63 the 'western horizon' is becoming a reality.

Aa4-70 has ordinal number 321 counted from Aa1-1, which possibly should be understood as one more than 10 * 32 - the season of growth is in the past. The 'colour' of hau tea then would implicitly be 'black', quite in order because its location is where a viri should have been. We can compare with G:

32
Gb3-30 Gb4-1 Gb4-33 Gb5-1
320 321 354 355

The message in Aa4-70 cannot, though, be 'black' (it would then have been reversed). Instead its location (both 321 and by dislocating viri) makes a powerful statement:

'Here is light and no darkness'.

After 8 'spreading out' hau tea high summer has been reached.

"The name of the district or section of country over which Olopana is to have ruled in Kahiki was in Hawaiian Moa-ula-nui-akea. Analyzing this word, it consists of one appellative, Moa, and three adjectives or epithets, ula, nui, akea, 'red, great, open, or wide-spreading' ..." (Fornander)

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The hau tea glyph type is a stylized picture of the horizon in the east with a sun 'eye' (at right in the glyph) together with the horizon in the west (at left in the glyph), connected by (in the north) the 'roof of the sky' with vertex at noon:

Sky 'roof', sun 'eye', and the two horizons where sun will rise and go down, are connected, and in between is a rectangular area in which Easter Island lies.

In the middle of the glyph a third vertical line is drawn as a theoretical construct (not real, not connected with the rest of the glyph).

It is the imagined line between Vinapu and Anakena, a line reaching from the south pole to the north pole, a line for 'generating fire'. It is a line to induce a new 'sun' (year) in midwinter after the old one has 'gone out' (cfr the glyph type vae and also how the Polynesians used a 'fire plow' for creating new fire).

The meaning of hau tea is basically 'day light', the kind of light which during summer magically makes everything grow.

I couldn't find any picture of a fire plow in Wikipedia, but by 'coincidence' (I am beginning to doubt) I was rewarded otherwise:

 

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