Hua Reva

During the waxing phase of the moon it is observed rising from a beginning at the horizon in the west towards full moon and zenith. The Mamari moon calendar has evidently located the night Ohua as glyph 26 of those 36 needed to reach Omotohi (full moon). Both according to Englert and Métraux Ohua is the night immediately before Otua (or Atua), i.e. night number 9 respectively 12.

Hua Reva means that the 'fruit' (hua) is being uplifted (reva), but the 'fruit' is not the moon. It is the spirit of the sun who is uplifted towards the sky like a fish from the sea. 10 * 29.5 = 295 is the location of the kuhane station Hua Reva. Or counted according to regular sun months: 10 * 30 = 300.

Below are listed 6 * 5 = 30 glyphs:

Gb2-27 Gb2-28 Gb2-29 (285) Gb2-30 Gb2-31
Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (290) Gb2-35 Gb3-1
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 (295) Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Gb3-7 Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb3-11
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19 (310) Gb3-20 Gb3-21

Gb2-35 has an arrangment of hua poporo presumably illustrating that sun has only 3 quarters (berries), how at the top (midsummer) one berry seems to be lost, and how at bottom right (the last quarter) another berry is missing.

The oval in Gb3-5 looks like the moon in the night Ohua, not quite like a sphere yet.

The very last glyph in what presumably is the longest of the calendar cycles in G has number 496 (= 16 * 31). 10 * 30.5 = 305 is Gb3-14, certainly alluding to π, meaning a cycle has ended. As a confirmation we find its ordinal number beyond Gb2-27 to be 22 (hinting at the formula π = 22 / 7). Moreover, from 305 up to and including 496 there are 192 glyphs, an important number, which here aquires the property of being very close to 2 * 22 / 7 * 30.5 (= 191.71).

A new season is about to be born in Gb3-13, because sun is going away and a new cycle will take its beginning at Gb3-14. Its length is 192 days = the circumference of a circle with radius 30½. There is a hole instead of an eye in Gb3-14, and an empty space is illustrated also in Gb3-16.

Gb3-9 is characterized by ominous numbers (a triplet of 9 and 17). The glyph depicts how tapa mea is transformed into a verocious gap, filled with teeth (9 of them). The idea is that sun will be swallowed. The following glyph stands beyond the limit (1 more than the full measure 300 days for the sun) - 8 feathers at left are balanced by 8 at right.

Hua Reva is an important station. Probably the 10th Tahitian 'pillar', the North Star, is the destination of the spirit of the sun going upwards.