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7. Apparently there are 2 kinds of 'lands', one corresponding to the domain of Sun and one corresponding to the domain of Waxing Moon, and with 'land' is meant not a place in the geography of an ordinary atlas but a domain in time.

In the Hawaiian calendar the 'land' measures 4 + 16 = 20 nights, because the 4 last nights of the preceding month should be added to the land of this month:

1 Hilo 7 Ole-ku-kahi 14 Akua 21 Ole-ku-kahi 26 Kane
2 Hoaka 8 Ole-ku-lua 15 Hoku 22 Ole-ku-lua 27 Lono
3 Ku-kahi 9 Ole-ku-kolu 16 Mahea-lani 23 Ole-pau 28 Mauli
4 Ku-lua 10 Ole-pau 17 Kulu 24 Kaloa-ku-kahi 29 Muku
5 Ku-kolu 11 Huna 18 Laau-ku-kahi 25 Kaloa-ku-lua
6 Ku-pau 12 Mohalu 19 Laau-ku-lua
  13 Hua 20 Laau-pau

Number 4 echoes everywhere in the measures of time, not only as the difference between 364 and 360 but also in the text of G, for instance at the end of summer:

side a side b
58 169 5
Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 (61) Gb1-6 (236)
60 176
Gb1-7 Gb1-8 Gb1-9 Gb1-10 (240)
4

If we count by Moon, then Gb1-6 (a Monday) evidently marks the end of her first great perfect cycle (8 * 29.5 = 236). But the end of the perfect cycle of Sun (8 * 30 = 240) comes 4 days later (like a prelude to her second great cycle).