If we add 60 days - from from the end of the previous Moon cycle to the end of side b - to the ordinal numbers for the glyphs in period 15, we can see a sign (viz. 168) showing we could be on the right track:
168 can be read as 16 and 8, numbers which probably are referring to the cycle of Moon. In view of our long and tedious investigation so far it has become rather clear that this mama pair could define the end of a Waxing Moon season, and it apparently should be counted from the end of the previous Moon cycle. Furthermore, 10 glyph lines beyond the mama pair we can suspect a relationship with the 4 curious haś ke:
Let us once again state where the 4 extra glyphs in the total number 472 presumably have been inserted, those which turn (3 + 5) * 13 = 8 * 13 = 104 glyphs into 108:
In the extraordinary Gb6-20 the 3 hanging 'balls' at left and right could refer to 300 days at left and 300 days at right:
407 at haś ke in Gb6-24 - 108 (at mama in Ga4-24) = 299, a number which indicates we maybe instead should have counted from Ga4-25 to Gb6-26:
This arrangement fits well with how the pair of mama in Ga4-23--24 can mark the end of 168 nights from Gb7-2. Counting from the end of the old (and possibly also the beginning of the new) Moon cycle (which evidently determines the basic calendar structure) there are 168 nights followed by 300 days:
From Rogo to the double-eyed hau tea in Gb7-2 (where 7 * 2 = 14) there are 4 glyphs, as if to say that Sun comes 'alive' again 4 days before Moon does so. |
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