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1. According to my enumeration the kuhane station Hua Reva ('the offspring hanging down') is number 6 (perhaps a reference to the 6th hour of right ascension):

Hua

1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son, hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel. Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct descendents; contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose': huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum). Vanaga.

1. The same; ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same, to return, to recommence.  2. To bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua, to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein, tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.: hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples. Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau, entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau, id. Churchill.

1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3. Tā hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'. Fischer.

Reva

To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva, 1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the background of the landscape, such a person standing on top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga.

To hang, to suspend, flag, banner; hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up, to balance; hakarevareva, to wave. T Pau.: reva, a flag; fakarevareva, to hang up, to suspend. Mgv.: reva, a flag, a signal. Mq.: éva, to hang up, to be suspended, to wave a signal. Ta.: reva, a flag, banner; revareva, to wave. The germ sense is that of being suspended ... any light object hung up in the island air under the steady tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification involved in the wave sense is no more than normal observation. Churchill.

Mgv.: 1. A plant. Ta.: reva, id. Mq.: eva, id. Sa.: leva, id. Ma.: rewa-rewa, id. 2. To cross, to pass across quickly; revaga, departure. Ta.: reva, to go away, to depart. Ma.: reva, to get under way. Churchill.

Ta.: The firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.: lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere, the visible heavens. Churchill.

Te Pu Mahore

Te Poko Uri

1

Te Manavai

8

Hatinga Te Kohe

15

Maunga Teatea

2

Te Kioe Uri

9

Roto Iri Are

16

Mahatua

3

Te Piringa Aniva

10

Tama (*)

17

Taharoa

4

Te Pei

11

One Tea (†)

18

Hanga Hoonu

5

Te Pou

12

Hanga Takaure

19

Rangi Meamea

6

Hua Reva (*)

13

Poike

20

Peke Tau O Hiti

7

Akahanga (†)

14

Pua Katiki

21

Maunga Hau Epa

22

Oromanga

23

Hanga Moria One

24

Papa O Pea

25

Ahu Akapu

birthplace of the new king

residence of the current king

residence for the future king

residence for the abdicated king

26 Te Pito O Te Kainga

Hua Reva is one of the few kuhane stations which appears also in Makoi's List of Place Names:

40)
31 Oparingi 36 Hanga Tetenga 41 Rua Hana
32 Motu Humu 37 Ahu Tutae 42 Puku Hotake
33 Hanga Maihiku 38 Oroi 43 Vai Ngaere
34 Maunga Toatoa 39 Akahanga  
35 Te Pipi Horeko 40 Hua Reva

Also the preceding Akahanga is a kuhane station, but Makoi went withershins and therefore it comes before instead of after Hua Reva.

Above, in my table over kuhane stations, I have inserted an asterisk (*, a star of birth) also at Hua Reva, because we ought to be able to draw such a tentative conclusion after the previous pages.

The stations of death (for Sun at Akahanga respectively for Moon at One Tea) evidently follow the stations of birth (unless you move withershins). The circuit of Makoi goes withershins which is like drawing a map down on earth of the sky up above (cfr at Heka).

When the 'father' goes down - is 'swallowed' at the horizon in the southwest - his 'offspring' (hua) is saved by being hung up like an uvula (reva) at the roof of the mouth.