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7. The central pillar connecting the two halves of time is the axis of the earth, around which earth is spinning and making light and darkness change places every 24 hours. June 24 and December 24 are appropriate dates for the location of the central pillar.

So when our side of the earth is light, i.e. the sun is looking at us, he cannot observe the other side, it is in the dark. Exactly as if we were looking at the stone 'globe' which has been rolled out on a flat surface by Heyerdahl:

Our eyes are like the sun:

"The eye is the symbolic site of subjection. Valeri observes that: 'The two sentiments that permit the transcendence of the self are, according to Hawaiians, desire and respect. One and the other are called kau ka maka, literally, 'to set one's eyes on' ... 

'To see' (ike) in Hawaiian (as in French or English) is 'to understand', but it is also 'to know sexually'.

Witness to the order, the world of forms generated by the chief, the eye, is the sacrifice of those who violate that order. The left eye of the slain tabu-transgressors is swallowed by Kahoali'i, ceremonial double of the king and living god of his sacrificial rites.

Like the sun, chiefs of the highest tabus - those who are called 'gods', 'fire', 'heat', and 'raging blazes' - cannot be gazed directly upon without injury. The lowly commoner prostrates before them face to the ground, the position assumed by victims on the platforms of human sacrifice. Such a one is called makawela, 'burnt eyes'." (Islands of History)

 

The right eye surely is the 'morning star' and the left the 'evening star'. If both eyes were representing the sun, then the central pillar - according to G - seems to locate one hole for the pillar at Gb1-3:

Ga8-16 Ga8-17 Ga8-18 Ga8-19 Ga8-20
Ga8-21 Ga8-22 Ga8-23 Ga8-24 Ga8-25
Ga8-26 Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb1-4

It is a Rogo sign, it should represent some sort of 'solstice'. But summer solstice, when counted from winter solstice at Gb6-26, comes much earlier. Not even if we begin counting from Gb8-30 does Gb1-3 arrive in time for summer solstice, it has ordinal number 233.

233 + 182 = 415, and if Gb1-3 in some unknown way really is to be regarded as standing at summer solstice, then winter solstice would be around glyph number 415 (counted from Gb8-30).

415 - 230 = 185 will be the number if we count from Gb1-1 and in that case glyph line Gb6 ends with number 181:

Gb6-17 Gb6-18 Gb6-19 Gb6-20 Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28 (181) Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4
408 409 410 181 + 230 = 411 412 413 = 14 * 29.5 414 415
472 473 474 64 + 411 = 475 476 477 478 479

Indeed hau tea at Gb7-2 looks like winter solstice, because it stands at position 14 * 29.5 counted from Gb8-30. Counted from Rogo in Gb6-26 a new year has already arrived, and it is day 5 of the new year.

But then we can draw the conclusion that 4 days before Gb1-3 we have summer solstice counted by the sun:

Ga8-21 Ga8-22 Ga8-23 Ga8-24 Ga8-25
Ga8-26 Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb1-4

Ga8-24 has empty hands. This could be the intended reading:

178
Ga8-24 Ga8-25 (229) Gb6-25 Gb6-26
day zero 180 day 1
178
Gb1-2 Gb1-3 (233) Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3
180 zero days day 1

Moon, according to this idea, should have 2 zero days, and also 2 days at the beginning.

Then we will realize that also Gb7-3--4 will be 2 days, the beginning of next cycle.

Maybe also sun has 2 days at the beginning and two at winter solstice?

The staff at right in Ga8-25 could represent the central pillar and the hole in Gb1-3 where it should be put.