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Ha2-23 Ha2-24 Ha2-25 (75) Ha2-26 Ha2-27 Ha2-28
83 = 75 / 3 + 58 84
Ha2-29 Ha2-30 Ha2-31 Ha2-32 Ha2-33 Ha2-34
85 86
Ha2-35 Ha2-36 Ha2-37 (87) Ha2-38 Ha2-39 Ha2-40 (90)
87 88

Considering first the possible meaning of the 4 moa glyphs we notice a peculiarity: Ha2-25, Ha2-28, and Ha2-31, come as final glyphs in triplets, and I guess that is their natural place - they announce 'dawn' - something new is around the corner. But moa in Ha2-35 is the first glyph in its triplet. Maybe Ha2-35 for some reason must come 7 glyphs later than his twin in Ha2-28. 7, 28, and 35 are moon numbers.

A strange birth (hanau) is taking place in Ha2-32 (where the numbers could allude to the 'multiplying force' of sun). Ha2-33 confirms: growth (kai) is in front. Together with the parallel glyphs in P and Q we can see there is a kind of fish here:

Ha2-32 Pa2-26 Qa2-105

Possibly it is the shark which reappears 5 glyphs later (Ha2-37). Ha2-36 is in some way related to the shark, and - this is important - day 87 'happens to be' equal to 58 + 87 / 3. Similarly 25 in Ha2-25 echoes in day number 25 from Ha1-1, and we should remember that atariki in Ga1-24 also is day number 25 (from Gb8-30).

It is a shark with mouth shut, maybe a new moon shark:

Ha2-37 (87) Ca7-24 (192)
new moon? full moon (Omotohi)

If it is a new moon shark (87 / 3 = 29), then the next phase will be waxing and its mouth must open in order to 'suck' (omo).

These 6 days end with day 88, which agrees rather well with what we have found in G:

86
Gb7-3 Ga1-29 Ga1-30
88 = 58 + 30

Although the 'atariki' in G was located in day 83, not in day 87, they both carry signs of darkness (9 * 29 = 261 respectively 87 / 3 = 29). Days 84 and 88 should indicate the arrival of light:

Ga1-24 (83) Ga1-25 (84)
Ha2-35 Ha2-36 Ha2-37 (87) Ha2-38 (88) Ha2-39 Ha2-40 (90)
87 = 87 / 3 + 58 88 = 90 / 3 + 58

The twin moa in Ha2-28 and Ha2-35 are drawn with a closed perimeter (excluding the fingerlike tail feathers). They are moon moa because of their numbers.

The other two also combine into a pair, but they are sun moa. Instead of 7 from one to the other the number is 6:

Ha2-23 Ha2-24 Ha2-25
Ha2-26 Ha2-27 Ha2-28 Ha2-29 Ha2-30 Ha2-31
Ha2-35 Ha2-36 Ha2-37

Sun comes first, then moon, then sun, then moon.

We recognize the pattern with a toa glyph coming before henua at midnight, and - furthermore - at toa in the glyph dictionary these 6 have been pointed out (without any attempt of explaining the pattern):

2 20 23 30
Ha2-26 Ha2-29 Ha2-50 Ha3-16 Ha4-39 Ha4-40
76 79 100 124 255 256 = 4 * 64

I guess Ha2-30 is a 'midnight henua' and Ha2-27 a corresponding such 'birth' glyph for the moon. We first saw the pattern in Tahua, and later we recognized the feathered vero glyphs at Te Pou as similar to inverted toa:

Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45
Midnight tao
Gb2-9 Gb2-10 Gb2-11 Gb2-12
Te Pou tao

We have also noticed a 'midnight henua' in Ha7-10, and this one is preceded with a single henua ora:

348
Ha1-1 Ha1-2 Ha1-3 Ha7-8 Ha7-9 Ha7-10 (354)
354 / 3 = 118 = 4 * 29.5

The 'midnight henua' in Ha2-30 is not quite as broad as the one in Ha7-10:

273
Ha2-30 (80) Ha7-10 (354)
84 91 176

2 * 30 = 60 and 7 * 10 = 70.

176 is the day before 177 = 6 * 29.5:

Ha7-5 Ha7-6 Ha7-7 Ha7-8 Ha7-9 Ha7-10 (354)
175 176
...
Ha7-11 Ha7-12 Ha7-13 Ha7-14 Ha7-15
177 = 6 * 29.5 178

Although Ha7-7 is not identical in shape with those 3 great marama we have found earlier, it certainly is a great marama:

354 363 207 367
Hb2-24 (723) Hb9-27 Hb9-28 Hb9-29 (1089) Ha7-24 (368)
364 day 1089 / 3 + 58 = 421 day 181
2 * 360 = 720 glyphs = 240 days 576 glyphs = 192 days
363
*Ha7-20 *Ha7-21 *Ha7-22 (366)
121 days day number 180 = 366 / 3 + 58
348
*Ha7-23 Ha7-24 *Ha7-25 (369) Hb2-19 Hb2-20 Hb2-21 (720)
1 2 3 352 353 354
day number 1 (181) 116 = 4 * 29 day number 118 (298)
118 = 4 * 29.5 days

Can we add Ha7-7 to the pattern? Yes, we can:

348 = 12 * 29 15
Ha7-5 Ha7-6 Ha7-7 (351) Ha7-23 Ha7-24 (368) Ha7-25
day 175 5 day 181