When we in H arrive at day 236 we have counted from the dark mago in Hb9-63:
When we in G have found 236 as a day beyond which sun seems to be vanishing, we have not counted with any 58 dark days before Gb8-30:
If we try to add those 58 dark days (from tamaiti at day 414 up to and including day 471 at Gb8-29), day number 236 will come earlier and on side a:
58 + 178 = 236 and 6 * 29.5 = 177. The period number is 31, the last of them. Half 236 is 118 (= 4 * 29.5) and if we locate this day we will find the glyph in period number 1:
By using the 58 dark days at the beginning of the calendar round, the creator of the text has accomplished reaching 4 * 29.5 at Ga2-29. By adding 2 * 29 to 60 (which has been counted from Gb8-30) the sum will be equal to 4 * 29.5. The strange variant of niu in Ga2-29 (alluding to 2 * 29 = 58) enables the counting of lunar months to be coordinated with a beginning in absolute darkness. Furthermore, we can imagine the newborn midwinter child to be like a little black shark (mago):
Niu is a word which may have been in the head of the creative person who gave the name niuhi to the hammerhead shark.
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