Take the story about the tapa beater, where Hina ended up in the moon. With the help of a tapa beater white cloth is created.

This picture (from The World of the Polynesians) is the only example of a tapa beater I have seen. It has a square end. It has straight lines running like the rays of the sun. Like latitude lines.

I believe there is a connection with GD41 (hau tea). In this type of glyph the three vertical straight lines might mean the tropics and the equator. The little 'eye' might mean the sun.

"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)