Take the lower part of a gourd or hula drum, rounded as a wheel (globe), on which several lines are to be marked and burned in, as described hereafter. These lines are called na alanui o na hoku hookele, the highways of the navigation stars, which stars are also called na hoku ai-aina, the stars which rule the land. Stars lying outside these three lines are called na hoku a ka lewa, foreign, strange, or outside stars.

The first line is drawn from Hoku-paa, the fixed or North Star, to the most southerly star of Newe, the Southern Cross. (This hour circle coincides with the meridian on an evening in June, when it would divide the visible sky into halves.) The portion (of the sky) to the right or east of this line (the observer is evidently assumed to be facing north) is called ke ala ula a Kane, the dawning or bright road of Kane, and that to the left or west is called ke alanui maawe ula a Kanaloa, the much-traveled highway of Kanaloa. (Kane and Kanaloa were important gods in the Polynesian pantheon, Kane being associated with light, Kanaloa with darkness.)

Then three lines are drawn east and west, one across the northern section indicates the northern limit of the Sun (corresponding with the Tropic of Cancer) about the 15th and 16th days of the month Kaulua (i.e., the 21st or 22nd of June) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane. The line across the southern section indicates the southern limit of the Sun about the 15th or 16th days of the month Hilinama (December 22) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the black-shining road of Kanaloa. The line exactly around the middle of the sphere is called ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u, the road of the spider, and also ke alanui i ka Piko a Wakea, the way to the navel of Wakea (the Sky-father).

Between these lines are the fixed stars of the various lands, na hokupaa a ka aina. (These are the stars which hang suspended in the zeniths of the Polynesian islands most of which lie within the tropics.) On the sides are the stars by which one navigates.

I try to summarize:

W ke alanui maawe ula a Kanaloa (the much-travelled highway of Tagaroa)	N Hoku-paa (North Star)	E ke ala ula a Kane (the dawning bright road of Tane)
	↕ (the 1st line)
	S Newe (Southern Cross)
The 1st line coincides with the meridian on an evening in June.

The 2nd - 4th lines:
↔	*ke alanui polohiwa a Kane*	the black-shining road of Tane	Tropic of Cancer	*the fixed stars of the lands (na hokupaa a ka aina)*
↔	*ke alanui a ke Ku'uku'u (ke alanui i ka Piko a Wakea)*	the great road of the Spider (the way to the navel of the Sky-father)	Equator
↔	*ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa*	the black-shining road of Tagaroa	Tropic of Capricorn

With 'land' (aina, kaiga) is here clearly meant that part of the sky over which Sun rules, the region in which he moves around and where he can reach zenith, i.e. the tropics.

Outside this broad band of Sun in the sky lies na hoku a ka lewa (outside stars) and they are contrasted with na hoku ai-aina (stars which rule the 'land'). The outside stars are 'lewa', which becomes reva on Easter Island. This is a clue for understanding the name Hua Reva. It is the first of the kuhane stations which have no Te, which we now can understand as meaning 'not a land of Sun':

Waxing Moon

Close to Rano Kau
Te Pu Mahore	*Te Poko Uri*	*Te Manavai*	*Te Kioe Uri*

Along the southern coast
*Te Piringa Aniva*	*Te Pei*	*Te Pou*

Outside Waxing Moon
*Hua Reva*	*Akahanga*	*Hatinga Te Koe*	*Roto Iri Are*

Tama

One Tea

Hanga Takaure

Living close to the equator (the great road of the Spider) you can observe 2 'years', one of them with Sun in the north and the other when he is in the south. The world is like a bivalve, or as it is described in another myth:

A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty.

By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little.

Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth. (New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology)