3. Glyph number 420 (at Achird) could possibly represent the '7th flame of Sun' or the '6th flame of Moon' (cfr at 8), in either case marking the end of a 'year'. This idea is consistent with the glyph type raaraa in Gb7-6 (where 7 * 6 = 42). Raá (sun, day) taken twice becomes its opposite (no sun, night), and Sun leaves at autumn equinox.
Such a 'year' could end anywhere and not necessarily at a solstice. Earlier I have argued for an equinox, cfr at The Woman in Chains. Right ascension is counted from spring equinox north of the equator and once it was a common custom to regard the year as 2 'years', for example 'the year in leaf' (summer) and 'the year in straw' (winter), cfr in chapter 26: ... In north Asia the common mode of reckoning is in half-year, which are not to be regarded as such but form each one separately the highest unit of time: our informants term them 'winter year' and 'summer year'. Among the Tunguses the former comprises 6½ months, the latter 5, but the year is said to have 13 months; in Kamchatka each contains six months, the winter year beginning in November, the summer year in May; the Gilyaks on the other hand give five months to summer and seven to winter. The Yeneseisk Ostiaks reckon and name only the seven winter months, and not the summer months. This mode of reckoning seems to be a peculiarity of the far north: the Icelanders reckoned in misseri, half-years, not in whole years, and the rune-staves divide the year into a summer and a winter half, beginning on April 14 and October 14 respectively. But in Germany too, when it was desired to denote the whole year, the combined phrase 'winter and summer' was employed, or else equivalent concrete expressions such as 'in bareness and in leaf', 'in straw and in grass' ... A location at the beginning of winter could point at a queen ruler (Achird) rather than at a king:
However, it is a remarkable fact that if we add 266 + 153.7 for Regulus his position will be in day number 419.7 counted from the previous winter solstice. I.e., it could very well be the body of Regulus which is depicted as hidden in Gb7-8--9. 266 + 11.7 = 277.7 for Achird is 101 days beyond summer solstice, reflecting the fact that Achird north of the equator is rising 101 days beyond winter solstice. Possibly 'one more' was a concept which once determined which stars to choose for the cardinal points. 365 = 364 + 1 and 181 = 180 + 1. Thus there is reason to believe the sky roof stretches for more than 365 glyphs in the G text - after a full cycle it begins anew. The time of Mother Nature is not linear but cyclical, the time which matters for us is everywhere exhibiting itself as a pattern of growth and decay, of ebb and flood. I remember a comment in Hamlet's Mill: "... the modern Homo occidentalis is bound to shrink back from the mere idea that the Nile represented a circle, where 'source' and 'mouth' meet, so that there is nothing preposterous in the notion that a Canopic mouth can be found in the geographical North ..." If we count 266 + 250.1 = 516.1 for Antares, reaching out for his day number beyond the previous winter solstice, we ought to find him at glyph number 516.1 - 472 = 44.1:
The resemblance between mago in Ga2-14 and mago in Ga7-16 ought to indicate a similarity in character - and they could both represent Antares. The mouth of mago in Ga2-14 is closed and a single rising feather is at left inside his head, probably meaning 'not visible'. The parallel with Gb7-8, where Regulus presumably is hidden by the world mountain, is obvious. And 2-14 could be a sign - we can compare with Gb2-14:
269 - 44 = 225 (= 9 * 25 = 15 * 15) = 336 - 111 = 517 - 292. And 292 - 266 = 26:
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