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My intuition had guided my right, after all. To explain why hua poporo appears at midsummer in Ka5-4 we had better start with Ko Koró, the month of feasting:

Polynesians cry when they meet again, not when they depart from each other. Tears for joy might possibly explain midsummer poporo. December (Ko Koró) is a month for feasting:
Koro

1. Father (seems to be an older word than matu'a tamâroa). 2. Feast, festival; this is the generic term for feasts featuring songs and banquetting; koro hakaopo, feast where men and women danced. 3. When (also: ana koro); ana koro oho au ki Anakena, when I go to Anakena; in case, koro haga e îa, in case he wants it. Vanaga.

If. Korokoro, to clack the tongue (kurukuru). Churchill.

Ma.: Aokoro, pukoro, a halo around the moon. Vi.: virikoro, a circle around the moon. There is a complete accord from Efaté through Viti to Polynesia in the main use of this stem and in the particular use which is set to itself apart. In Efaté koro answers equally well for fence and for halo. In the marked advance which characterizes social life in Viti and among the Maori the need has been felt of qualifying koro in some distinctive manner when its reference is celestial. In Viti virimbai has the meaning of putting up a fence (mbai fence); viri does not appear indipendently in this use, but it is undoubtedly homogenetic with Samoan vili, which has a basic meaning of going around; virikoro then signifies the ring-fence-that-goes-around, sc. the moon. In the Maori, aokoro is the cloud-fence. Churchill 2.

The cycle of the 1st 'year' - the halo, koro, around the 1st 'year' - is completed, and by consuming an abundance of food the Easter Islanders try to induce the newborn 2nd (harvest) 'year' to deliver in kind. It is a time for feasting (koro).

Here I could have inserted a hyperlink referring to the Hawaiian new year festival (Makahiki):

... A large, loose-mesh net, filled with all kinds of food, is shaken at a priest's command. Fallen to earth, and to man's lot, the food is the augury of the coming year. The fertility of nature thus taken by humanity, a tribute-canoe of offerings to Lono is set adrift for Kahiki, homeland of the gods ... 

Already in discussing the glyph type henua ora I have documented a description of the Makahiki rites (fetched from Islands of History) and it would have been easy to refer back to that part of the glyph dictionary. However, I think such a parenthesis would only complicate for the reader, not make anything more clear. I intend to save this piece of the puzzle until later. There must be a better point further on, because the tribute-canoe of offerings to Lono may very well be one of the reasons for the canoe-design in Ka5-4:

Hawaii lies north of the equator, which means that it is December which houses winter solstice. On Easter Island, on the other hand, it is summer solstice which inhabits December. This is another reason to avoid a reference here to Makahiki.

Relying on my intuition, the explanation of the location of Ka5-4 will then continue with an inspection of the motives for my having suggested hua poporo to be associated with autumn equinox:

In Mamari we find hua poporo associated with the season of vero:
19
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21
19 means atumn equinox, the fall of the sun.
Ca1-19 Ca1-20

By way of vero in period 11 in the calendar of E we can confirm the existence of a relationship between the glyph types vero and hua poporo:

9 4 means 'earth' (alluding to its 4 'corners')
Ka5-4
11
Eb4-2 Eb4-3 Eb4-4 Eb4-5

Period 11 in E arrives immediately before the summer turnaround point of the calendar, just as period 9 in the G and K calendars does.

We should here take the opportunity to list the vero glyphs in the Mamari text. It will be useful later on.

In Ca1-19, I think, summer is documented, and then comes winter in Ca1-20. Summer comes first according to the Mamari text. The end of summer is autumn equinox (19). If the pattern continues, then 20 will mean the end of winter, spring equinox. We remember that 20 is the number of glyphs in the 1st period of the E calendar.

The 1st period in the E calendar has 6 + 14 = 20 glyphs. Counting twice 20 we will arrive at Eb3-8 as the 40th glyph:

20 + 6 + 4 + 3 + 6 + 1 (the 1st glyph in the 6th period) = 40:

Eb3-1 Eb3-2 Eb3-3 Eb3-4 Eb3-5 Eb3-6
34 35 36 37 38 39
In the 5th period (above) winter is finished. In the 6th period summer is described, beginning with spring equinox and ending with autumn equinox (Eb3-17--19).
Eb3-7 Eb3-8
40 41
Eb3-9 Eb3-10 Eb3-11 Eb3-12
42 43 44 45
Eb3-13 Eb3-14 Eb3-15 Eb3-16
46 47 48 49
Eb3-17 Eb3-18 Eb3-19
50 51 52

We cannot here and now continue further on with this new thread which, presumably, would lead to a better understanding of the E calendar. Instead we continue with the vero glyphs in Mamari:

*Ca14-1 etc show reconstructed ordinal numbers.
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20
Ca14-101 Ca14-102 Ca14-103 Ca14-104 Ca14-105
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5
*Ca14-6 *Ca14-7 *Ca14-8
*Ca14-9 *Ca14-10 *Ca14-11 *Ca14-12 *Ca14-13 *Ca14-14
*Ca14-15 *Ca14-16 *Ca14-17

We recognize how the ordinal numbers 16-18 in line a13 correspond to the autumn equinox season in the G calendar and how in 19 sun 'dies' at vero.

In Ca14-11 we recognize the type of glyph (mauga) often following vero:

9
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 Ga5-19 Ga5-20
11
Eb4-2 Eb4-3 Eb4-4 Eb4-5
19
Eb5-10 Eb5-11 Eb5-12
?
*Ca14-9 *Ca14-10 *Ca14-11 *Ca14-12 *Ca14-13 *Ca14-14

Numbers in the series 9, 19, 29 etc seem to indicate darkness, for instance is the 59th night in a doublemonth a black new moon night - given that the counting started immediately beyond such a night.

The question mark (?) for ordinal number at Ca14-9 etc can be eliminated by counting.
The 3 at left seems to constitute a special group.
Ca1-18 Ca1-25 Ca2-23
Ca3-1 Ca3-4 Ca3-8 Ca3-13 Ca3-16 Ca3-20
Ca14-211 connects to Cb2-7 by way of contrast.
Ca14-211
Cb2-7 Cb2-16 Cb2-22 Cb3-2 Cb3-6 Cb3-12
Cb3-15 Cb3-20 Cb4-2 Cb4-7 Cb4-12 Cb4-16
Cb14-11 has no henua (cfr Ca14-211 with only a short henua).
Cb14-11

10 glyphs on side a and 13 on side b. But we should probably discount Ca1-25 (with a 'dead' henua) and Cb14-11 (with a missing henua). The numbers will then be 9 + 12 = 21, not a good number.

Looking again, we could consider eliminating Ca3-20 (because henua is 'spooky'). 8 + 12 = 20 is a better result.

Yet, we could alternatively also eliminate Ca3-4 and Ca3-13 because henua is just an illusion - the 'kiore' has prolonged his 'legs'. 6 + 12 = 18 is more sun-oriented.

The number of the period which ends with Ca14-211 is still somewhat questionable. A good guess, though, is that on side a we have 10 and on side b 13 glyphs of this type because on side a we can, presumably, read reflections about sun and on side b reflections from the moon. 10 * 18 = 180 and 13 * 14 = 182 (with an additional special 3 nights outside the calendar). The number for the last period of the sun (ending with Ca14-211) probably is 10.