"One of the parallels suggested by Heyerdahl is that between Polynesian pito 'navel'…and Quito, the very ancient Ecuadorian capital. In Hawaiian, the equator is defined as ke ala i ka piko a wakea 'the road to the navel (or birth-place) of Wakea (= Light)', where piko is the regular reflex of PPN *pito.

Thus the possibility should exist to postulate kito, meaning 'navel', as a word of the pre-Incaic Andean language(s), to be used as a place-name later and therefore preserved today. The question remains open whether there could be - as in the Hawaiian example - any connection with the equator crossing the area. (The Incas' ancient capital, Kosco or Cuzco, meant 'navel' too.)" (Schuhmacher)

The centre (pito) of the world (Mount Meru) should lie at the equator.

Pito

1. Umbilical cord; navel; centre of something: te pito o te henua, centre of the world. Ana poreko te poki, ina ekó rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare o here'u i te poki; e-nanagi te pito o te poki, ai ka-rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare, when a child is born one must not enter the house immediately, for fear of injuring the child (that is, by breaking the taboo on a house where birth takes place); only after the umbilical cord has been severed can one enter the house. 2. Also something used for doing one's buttons up (buttonhole?). Vanaga.

Navel. Churchill.

H Piko 1. Navel, navel string, umbilical cord. Fig. blood relative, genitals. Cfr piko pau 'iole, wai'olu. Mō ka piko, moku ka piko, wehe i ka piko, the navel cord is cut [friendship between related persons is broken; a relative is cast out of a family]. Pehea kō piko? How is your navel [a facetious greeting avoided by some because of the double meaning]? 2. Summit or top of a hill or mountain; crest; crown of the head; crown of the hat made on a frame (pāpale pahu); tip of the ear; end of a rope; border of a land; center, as of a fishpond wall or kōnane board; place where a stem is attached to the leaf, as of taro. 3. Short for alopiko. I ka piko nō 'oe, lihaliha (song), at the belly portion itself, so very choice and fat. 4. A common taro with many varieties, all with the leaf blade indented at the base up to the piko, junction of blade and stem. 5. Design in plaiting the hat called pāpale 'ie. 6. Bottom round of a carrying net, kōkō. 7. Small wauke rootlets from an old plant. 8. Thatch above a door. 'Oki i ka piko, to cut this thatch; fig. to dedicate a house. Wehewehe.

168 = 7 * 24 could be another way to (symbolically) represent the length of the path Sun had to journey in order to reach Polynesia (the centre of the world). Or maybe it really takes the Sun one week to travel 1º. The beginning does not count when we measure time.

Where is 'The Land of 8'? 8 * 24 = 192 and it should be at winter solstice, when Sun does not travel. If The Land of 8 is described at the end of the back side, then we can roughly translate the path of the Sun to be 7 * 60 = 420 days (and the time cycle to be 8 * 60 = 480 days).

8 * 63 = 504, but one unit of time at the beginning has not been counted. 8 * 64 = 8 * 8 * 8 = 512.