3. If we continue beyond the 150th glyph, then the odd numbered last glyph (167) prompts us to continue a bit longer into next calendar cycle. The natural stop is the mauga in the 1st period, and it is located in position 186, a number which can be used to count the days of winter, now with 1 glyph for each day, beginning at the beginning of the calendar and ending beyond its end:
186 is an even number and in the middle there must be a pair of glyphs. 91 equals the number of days in a normal quarter, but south of the equator winter is longer than summer. A common trait in these four glyphs is the undulation - in legs (Eb1-37), in wing (Eb4-22--23) and in the extended 'limb' of the mauga (Eb2-13). The ordinal numbers in Eb2-13 can be interpreted as 2 * 13 weeks = 182 days, i.e. 4 of the 186 winter days presumably are extracalendrical. |
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