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1. My glyph type hua poporo occurs in lines a7 and a8:

hua poporo Ga7-15 Ga7-32 Ga7-33 Ga8-2 Ga8-3
Ga8-7 Ga8-8 Ga8-10 Ga8-11 Ga8-13 Ga8-14

The impression one gets is some kind of hanging berries and hua means 'fruit'. Early in this study we saw a somewhat similar type of glyph, but with 'berries' which are quite different, not hanging, not subject to the force of gravity:

Ea9-29 Eb7-3 Eb7-5 Eb7-7
Eb7-9 Eb7-11 Eb7-13 Eb7-14

Maybe it means they are not yet ripe. Or maybe they are intended to illustrate 'the berries in the sky' (stars or planets) - in contrast to the heavy ripe fruits close down to earth. Or maybe they illustrate the positions in the sky where Sun (and the other 'planets') can be observed, together with the straight lines of sight leading to them. At any rate we cannot identify these 'unripe berries' as examples of the type hua poporo.

Heavy (ripe) is one of the characteristics of hua poporo glyphs. Such glyphs ought to appear in high summer or closely thereafter. Then they will be picked or they will drop to the ground.

I once decided to consider as hua poporo also glyphs with signs which can be interpreted as exhibiting the next stage, later on when the berries have disappeared, maybe indicating the season of 'straw':

131
Ga4-7 (91, *155) Ga8-19 (223, *287)

Furthermore, there are hua poporo glyphs also on side b:

Gb1-8 Gb2-24 Gb1-15 Gb1-21 Gb2-16 Gb2-35

Possibly the convex shape in the center of Ga8-19 is connected with the pair of similar shapes at left in Gb1-15 and Gb2-35:

131 21 45
Ga8-19 (223, *287) Gb1-15 (245, *309) Gb2-35 (291, *355)
132 68
200

This example demonstrates the necessity to look at all the glyphs of a certain kind in order to find out what significant numbers are embedded in the text. The distance from Ga4-7 to Ga8-19 does not seem to convey much meaning, but when it is combined with the information regarding the other glyphs (on side b) we can discover a number structure which presumably is significant.

The berries in Gb2-35 (and the berries at left in Gb2-16) are not hanging, but I perceive them as inverted hua poporo signs. The strings carrying the berries are not straight.