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Immediately before the sun calendar in Large Washington Tablet a pure glyph is found:

The text is destroyed here. ...
Sb2-1 Sb2-2

1

6

Sb2-3

Sb2-4

Sb2-5

Sb2-18

Sb2-19

Sb2-20

2

7

Sb2-6

Sb2-7

Sb2-8

Sb2-21

Sb2-22

Sb2-23

3

8

Sb2-9

Sb2-10

Sb2-11

Sb2-24

Sb2-25

Sb2-26

4

9

Sb2-12

Sb2-13

Sb2-14

Sb2-27

Sb2-28

Sb2-29

5

10

Sb2-15

Sb2-16

Sb2-17

Sb2-30

Sb2-31

Sb2-32
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...

Sb2-33

 Sb2-34 text destroyed

In Sb2-3, the 1st glyph of the calendar, the top 'flame' of the sun glyph (hetuu) appears to indicate a flame. Probably a flame of ignition is needed beyond the 'spiritual' (pure) phase. Pure (in Sb2-2) is located before this 'flame of light', as if in the beginning there was no light.

In Sb2-17 the top 'flame' reappears at the back side of the bird with a sleepy head (moe), indicating how it is now 'finished'. Both in Sb2-3 and in Sb2-15 the sun symbols are deviating from the norm (the other 8 sun symbols). The 'flame', therefore, is defined in this calendar to 'live' during the 5 first periods, half of the total time.