No, there is no reason to regard 'vaha mea ika hiku' as a combination of vaha mea with ika hiku.

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*Qb5-17 can be compared with Hanga Te Pau (as described in G):   *Qb5-17 (591) Gb5-12 haga rave Possibly *Qb5-17 should be read as 'Hanga Hoonu'. It is the first of the two glyphs denoting day 360 ( = 592 / 2 + 64). The glyph type haga rave could have been used in compounds in order to be read as 'haga'. The explorers stayed and rested at Hanga Hoonu for five days (according to Manuscript E). They fetched fire from Hanga Te Pau to cook all the fish they had caught: '... They prepared the fish in the fire on the flat rocks, cooked them, and ate until they were completely satisfied ...' 5 days are like the difference betwee 360 and 365, a time outside the ordinary calendar, when time in a way stands still. Honu at right in *Qb5-17 has no legs, it is the variant which I have named Rogo. The fire on the flat rocks probably allude to winter solstice.

In G we have to move 43 glyphs (days) ahead beyond Hanga Te Pau (366) in order to reach Rogo (409). Twice 43 = 86 and in Q we can therefore walk 86 steps in the other direction, from *Qb5-17 (591) in order to search for Hanga Te Pau. There is a haga rave glyph at Qb3-9, and a honu (with legs) close by:

Qb3-1 (485)	Qb3-2	Qb3-3	Qb3-4	Qb3-5	Qb3-6 (490)	Qb3-7	Qb3-8
307		308		309		310

Qb3-9	Qb3-10	Qb3-11 (495)	Qb3-12	Qb3-13	Qb3-14	Qb3-15	Qb3-16 (500)
311		312		313		250 + 64 = 314

					84
Qb3-17 (501)	Qb3-18	Qb3-19	Qb3-20	Qb3-21 (505)		*Qb5-16
90 / 2 = 45 days

8 days (from Qb3-1 up to and including glyph number 500) end with day number 314. The legs of honu and the pair of ariga erua glyphs with 'eyes' indicate these 8 days are 'alive' (not 'in the dark'). But the pair of mauga at the end says the light now is hidden. And then an autumn type of vaha mea immediately opens up a new season.

The following 45 days are equal in number with those 45 we found defined by Rogo glyphs in G:

	43		67		98		76		183
Ga5-10		Ga6-24		Gb1-3		Gb3-15		Gb6-26
4 * 28 = 112				360

A similarity in structure between the 'front' and 'back' sides is not surprising.

The enigmatic reversed ua at Qb3-21 maybe now can be understood. What happens in these intercalendary 45 days? In G the planets arrive beyond Hanga Te Pau, and Venus is the beginning of a new cycle. Light cannot be absent forever.