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The difference in length between the 472 days of G and the 432 days in H can be perceived as 40 inserted days beginning where H has Friday and G has the rising Venus fish:

glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
84 38
Gb2-25 Gb2-26 (282) Gb5-13 Gb5-14 (368) Gb6-24
126 = 18 weeks = 86 + 40 days
glyph numbers and days counted from Ha1-4
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47 Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50 (1107)
368 369 = 1107 / 3

In H the new cycle is beginning at 'one more' day after day 368 (which number can be read as 36 combined with the perfect number 8, a suitable number for the end of a solar cycle).

It would be unlucky to end a calendar where 'time ends'. It is much better to let the end of the calendar coincide with the beginning of next cycle.

In G the end of the cycle comes at Gb5-12, where 5 * 12 = 60, and where the ruling planet is Mercury (as if it was quicksilver which had run down into the pau foot):

glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
Gb5-6 Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12
Gb5-13 Gb5-14 (368) Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17 Gb5-18 Gb5-19
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The rising Venus fish in Gb5-14 is like Venus in day 369 in H - it is beyond the end of the old year. Although there is still no light - the 'feather' sign is inside the fish and cannot be seen from the outside.

Counting from Friday in H there are 64 days to the beginning of the season of light (at Ha1-4), 192 glyphs = 64 days. In G the dark season has been extended to 40 + 64 = 104 = 8 * 13 days, and 40 can therefore be read as equal to 5 * 8.

If we move from the rising Venus fish at Gb5-14 to honu at Gb6-26 (winter solstice), we will move 409 - 368 = 41 days ahead. If the sequence of planets continues, we will encounter 5 Venus days, 5 * 7 = 35. Honu will then be a Jupiter day, quite in order because Jupiter means 'father light' and at Gb6-26 a new 'light' will be born.

In H there are only 63 days left from Friday to the end of side b. In a way it is logical to have Friday at day 369 instead of at day 368 as in G. 369 + 63 = 432 = 368 + 64. The last day on side b will also be a Friday, and Saturn is pushed away to the beginning of side a.

If honu at Gb6-26 should be a day ruled by Jupiter, then it follows from the 40 inserted days added in G that the first of them must be a Venus day.

368 at Venus in Gb5-14 is not the natural place for her, and she has been forced to take that position in order to get Jupiter into the important winter solstice position.

In H she has no such restriction and she can be at her natural place, at 'one more' than the end of the old cycle. Venus is the planet of procreation.