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Maro glyphs are used to indicate where sun is on his path over the year, e.g.:

summer solstice winter solstice
Ga5-15 *Ca14-23

At summer solstice the sky roof is high, which explains the gap between the lower and upper parts of the glyph. At winter solstice sun's rays are very weak, as if something was standing in their way.

The maro glyph type has an opposite, where the pointed 'cap' is inverted into a 'cup' in a Y-formed 'henua':

*Ca14-23 *Ca14-14

*Ca14-14 is also located in midwinter, which the half hidden 'feathers' presumably indicate.

Examples show that maro glyphs are positioned as last glyph in some long sequence of glyphs, for instance is Ca6-24 number 100:

64 96
Cb14-19 (1) Ca3-14 (66) Ca3-15 Ca3-16 Ca6-24 (165)
65 100

But if maro is inverted this rule does not apply. Instead the inverted maro seems to come at the beginning:

235 235
Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7 (1)
472 = 16 * 29.5