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There are only 10 Tahitian 'pillars', maybe because of an ancient system with 10 months:

... Hua Reva means that the 'fruit' (hua) is being uplifted (reva), but the 'fruit' is not the moon. It is the spirit of the sun who is uplifted towards the sky like a fish from the sea. 10 * 29.5 = 295 is the location of the kuhane station Hua Reva. Or counted according to regular sun months: 10 * 30 = 300 ...

We could now add: Or counted according to Ana-nia - 10 * 28.5 = 285. Yet, there is also a sign of 28:

 

54
Gb2-27 (283) Gb4-17 (338)
56 = 2 * 28

The page reva is due:

 

Reva indicates the upper regions:

 

Reva

To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva, 1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the background of the landscape, such a person standing on top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga.

To hang, to suspend, flag, banner; hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up, to balance; hakarevareva, to wave. T Pau.: reva, a flag; fakarevareva, to hang up, to suspend. Mgv.: reva, a flag, a signal. Mq.: éva, to hang up, to be suspended, to wave a signal. Ta.: reva, a flag, banner; revareva, to wave. The germ sense is that of being suspended ... any light object hung up in the island air under the steady tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification involved in the wave sense is no more than normal observation. Churchill.

Mgv.: 1. A plant. Ta.: reva, id. Mq.: eva, id. Sa.: leva, id. Ma.: rewa-rewa, id. 2. To cross, to pass across quickly; revaga, departure. Ta.: reva, to go away, to depart. Ma.: reva, to get under way. Churchill.

Ta.: The firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.: lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere, the visible heavens. Churchill.

"LEWA, s. Haw., the upper air, region of clouds; v. to swing, float in the air, move back and forth; hoo-lewa, to vibrate, float in the air, carry between two persons, as a corpse, a funeral.

Tah., rewa, the firmanent, an abyss; rewa-rewa, to fly about, as a flag.

Mangr., rewa, the overhanging firmanent, a tent, a flag.

N. Zeal., rewa, the eyelid.

Marqu., ewa, to suspend; s. the middle.

Sam., leva (of time), long since; v. be protracted.

Fiji., rewa, high, height; vaka-rewa, to lift up, to hoist, as a sail.

Malg., lifa, v. to fan oneself, s. flight; rafraf, a fan.

Goth., luftus, the air.

Sax., lyfti, air, arch, vault.

O. Engl., lift, air.

Lat., limbus (?), fringe, flounce.

Sanskr., dev, div, primarily 'jacere, jaculare', according to A. Pictet (Orig. Ind.-Eur., ii. 466), subsequently 'to play at dice', play generally. The permutation of d and l may be observed in the Latin levir, brother-in-law (the husband's younger brother) = Sanskr. devŗi, devara, id.

If dev or div has derived the sense of 'throwing dice' from an older sense 'jacere, jaculare', to throw, to hurl, that sense may be a derivative from a still older one, 'to lift up, swing about, be suspended' = the Polynesian lewa, rewa, 'to be suspended, to vibrate'. And thus we can also understand the origin of the Goth. luftus, the Sax. lyfte, the O. Norse loft, Swed. lowera, lofwa, Engl. luff." (Fornander)

The basic idea is that the sky 'fish' (moon, sun etc) is ready to be lifted up from the watery region (which for the sun comes at Te Pei). The Maya indians are helpful by their 'adaptation' of the phases of Venus:

 phase

observed periods

periods in the Mayan 'map'

difference

morning star

263

236

- 27

black

50

90

+ 40

evening star

263

250

- 13

black

8

8

0

sum

584

584

0

Te Pei at 8 * 29.5 = 236 is the last day of the first half (472 / 2 = 236), the 'morning', of the year, and then it turns around:

 
Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7

Sun is being 'driven out, banished' (pei) from the island and he becomes a 'tasty fish' (pe'i) which can be caught in the 'deep waters'. Down there it is completely black.

A quarter later it is time to take him up again. The cycle cannot stop. He will become an 'evening star'. 236 + 90 = 326 or close to Akahanga at 11 * 29.5 = 324.5. The spirit of the sun goes up into the night sky already at Hua Reva, his body is then buried at Akahanga.

But his skull is taken care of separately, in order to be completely dried out and later hanged high in the daytime sky again:

... Ure Honu was amazed and said, 'How beautiful you are! In the head of the new bananas is a skull, painted with yellow root and with a strip of barkcloth around it.' Ure Honu stayed for a while, (then) he went away and covered the roof of his house in Vai Matā. It was a new house. He took the very large skull, which he had found at the head of the banana plantation, and hung it up in the new house. He tied it up in the framework of the roof (hahanga) and left it hanging there ...

Not only the skull has been dried out completely, also the thatching on the roof of the new house must be dry. It is a sign of the end of the year.

236 + 250 = 486 = 2 * 263 is the number of days when Venus adorns the sky, the time when sun is shining on her.

We need to count more than a cycle around the text of G to reach 486:

 
a1 14 30 b1 26
16
a2 29 b2 35
a3 24 b3 30
a4 27 b4 33
a5 30 b5 29
a6 29 b6 28
a7 34 b7 31
a8 26 b8 30
sum 229 (230) sum 242 (472)
Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14 (486) Ga1-15 Ga1-16

The symmetrical arrangement suggests we should focus on Ga1-13 at 485 = 5 * 97. Also, the ordinal number -14 indicates a new season should begin there (i.e. the old season should end with Ga1-13). The message is foremost one of ending, though there are 3 'feathers' in front (spring).

16½ * 29.5 = 486.75, which measure indicates Ga1-16, another spirit being lifted up to heaven. (16½ - 10) * 29.5 = 191.75 or rather 192.

The hanau glyph type (cfr Ga1-12 and Ga1-14) occurs also at Hua Reva, 200 glyphs earlier:

 
Gb2-27 Gb2-28 Gb2-29 Gb2-30 Gb2-31 (287)
196 1
Gb2-31 (287) Ga1-12 (484) Ga1-14 (486)
200

Does the hanau glyph type says that somebody is being uplifted from the water into the sky?

250, the Mayan evening star measure, is equal to the sun square (25) times 10. It has also been noted in the text of G. It must be at Gb1-20 (we are never more going to change the counting from Gb8-30), the last glyph before the extraordinary Gb1-21:

 
Gb1-14 Gb1-15 Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 Gb1-19 Gb1-20 (250)
Gb1-21 Gb1-22 Gb1-23 Gb1-24 Gb1-25

Gb1-21 stands at the beginning of a new season.

We have not ventured beyond 496 (= 486 + 10) earlier. Let us have a look at glyph number 500:

 
Ga1-20 Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 (496)
Ga1-25 Ga1-26 Ga1-27 Ga1-28 (500)
Ga1-29 Ga1-30

Evidently 500 announces the arrival of Te Piringa Aniva.

We have not calculated with 236 + 90 + 250 = 576. We must do that (and also add a final 8 to reach the full cycle 584):

576 - 472 = 104 (= 4 * 26). 30 (a1) + 29 (a2) + 24 (a3) + 21 (a5) = 104:

 
19
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21 (576)
20
Ga5-22 Ga5-23 Ga5-24 Ga5-25
Ga5-26 Ga5-27 Ga5-28 Ga5-29 (584)

From there a new 'earth' will rise again:

 
21
Ga5-30 Ga6-1 Ga6-2 Ga6-3 Ga6-4
22
Ga6-5 (590) Ga6-6 Ga6-7 Ga6-8

It seems clear that the Mayan structure for Venus was known and used by the creator of the G text. 20 times 29.5 = 590 fits rather well with the Venus cycle 584.

The meaning with 10 months (instead of 12 or 13) in a year is now even more clear than before. Not only are 10 the number of fingers ('fire') but also half the cycle determined by Venus.

584 / 2 = 292 (= 192 + 100) and we can see a connection between Gb3-1 (the 10th glyph of Hua Reva) and Gb3-4:

 

Gb2-27 Gb2-28 Gb2-29 (North Star) Gb2-30 Gb2-31
Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (290) Gb2-35 Gb3-1 (Venus)
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 (Moon) Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Gb3-7 Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb3-11
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19 (310) Gb3-20 Gb3-21