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We should, however, also investigate if 'etoru kiori' could belong in a more global pattern where the triplet of haś ke glyphs is contrasted with the triplet of haś glyphs:

Ca6-7 Ca6-8 (148) Ca6-9
Cb10-9 Cb10-10 (240) Cb10-11

The central glyph in each triplet should be the main one, which the numbers possibly are confirming. 6 and 8 could allude to 148 because 6 * 8 = 48 and because 24 (= 14 + 10) * 10 = 240. Counted from the beginning of the text (at Ca1-1) glyph line Cb10 is number 14. The number of 'feathers' are 14 in both Cb10-9 and Cb10-10.

Though I have counted to 240 at Cb10-10 from Cb1-1. If we add the glyphs from side a (which are 392 in number), it becomes 632. And if we count 6 * 32 = 192 the picture of a 'hidden sun' agrees with not only 192 (= 8 * 24) but also with 240 (= 8 * 30).

It may all be coincidences. But the hard to avoid idea of 392 = 192 + 200 for side a will naturally lead to the idea of 348 (side b) = 148 (also the ordinal number of Ca6-8) + 200.

Maybe we should divide the number of glyphs in the 'Moon season' with 2 in order to reach the number of days (or rather nights). 148 + 100 = 248 and 192 + 100 = 292.

248 + 292 = 540 = 360 + 180:

side a side b
147 244 239 108
Ca6-8 (148) Cb10-10 (632)
392 348
192 + 200 / 2 = 292 148 + 200 / 2 = 248
292 + 248 = 540 = 5 * 108

... Shall one add Angkor to the list? It has five gates, and to each of them leads a road, bridging over that water ditch which surrounds the whole place. Each of these roads is bordered by a row of huge stone figures, 108 per avenue, 54 on each side, altogether 540 statues of Deva and Asura, and each row carries a huge Naga serpent with nine heads. Only, they do not 'carry' that serpent, they are shown to 'pull' it, which indicates that these 540 statues are churning the Milky Ocean, represented (poorly, indeed) by the water ditch, using Mount Mandara as a churning staff, and Vasuki, the prince of the Nagas, as their drilling rope ...