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No, that does not seems right, these figures are no pillars able to hold up the sky. Instead we get the impression of circular, egg-formed people. They remind us of the beginning of the eight periods of the Mamari moon calendar. Although here there is a circular sign, no obvious egg. Chicken just out from their eggshells, still the shape of their eggs imprinted on them? Chicken are very young and it is perhaps no coincidence, then, that the very first glyph of Tahua (Aa1-1) looks similar to those glyphs we here think about:
This little figure is not much later followed by the four 'bacabs', here depicted as chicken having reached a somewhat more mature age, straightened out a bit from the egg-shell form:
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