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5. If number 349 should be understood as a reference to the mouth of the fish down there, then we must consider how my idea about Te Pe'i (presumably the same fish) could be located in line b1.

First I will try to motivate my idea without using complicated number games, only by looking at the signs. I have suggested the southern fish is like Blood Moon, like the receiving end of the flow from The Great One. A receptacle is basically a type of mouth, and we should remember the Chikin sign (cfr at A Common Sign Vocabulary):

...  For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth ...

kin

kin

chikin

manik

If side b of the G tablet is its back side, then it ought to begin with the direction west, where Sun is taken care of in the evening. Mother Earth is swallowing him to enable his rebirth next morning.

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Ga8-16 Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3
220 13

The generation of a new fire ('one more' as in 1-1) is based on the 'embers' (hetu) of the Old Fire, presumably represented by Jupiter (Father Light) in Ga8-16 and Gb1-2.

Gb1-3 (a day of Venus) could be a point from where to count, from where a new 'year' is born, similar to Rogo in Gb6-26 (a day of Sun). But Rogo in Gb1-3 has a 'hole' (mata) in her stomach, perhaps representing 'the fruit' from the 'tree' of Jupiter.

... What? Well! What's the fruit of this tree? Shouldn't this tree bear something sweet? They shouldn't die, they shouldn't be wasted. Should I pick one? said the maiden ...

I say 'her' because this Rogo mata could reflect α Andromeda (Sirrah) by being located in the 'antipodal' part of the year.

A hole suggests 'water', as for instance in the 177 signs in the skirt (all around her) of Pachamama:

Below her midline water finds its place, while flames of fire are drawn higher up and move upwards:

In A Common Sign Vocabulary I wrote:

... The statue of Pachamama exhibits a variant of pu where the upper hole seems to be closed. The spring path of Sun begins at the temple (or at the ear hole) of the central beast - looking like a hippopotamus - and it then leads obliquely downwards ending in a great 'hole'.

Maybe the path of Sun is beginning with a 'closed fist' - all 'fingers' are still intact and nothing has as yet been counted. At the other end there is a 'zero', nothing is left and all has been counted.

Fish heads are visbile close to the bottom hole, but otherwise there are predominatly signs of fire. At front in the headgear is an eagle's head with a single-rimmed eye. Another such is hanging down at the back of her head. I guess the 'hippopotamus' is a female. At any rate she has her mouth open as a creature of spring should ...

We can now add that the face to the left of the open hole ('zero') is upside down.

Furthermore, a 'hole' on the front side should be mata, I think, in contrast to pu which has a female ring:

Mata

1. Tribe, people; te mata tûai-era-á, the ancient tribes. 2. Eye; mata ite, eyewitness. 3. Mesh: mata kupega. 4. Raw, uncooked, unripe, green, matamata, half-cooked, half-ripe. Kahi matamata, a tuna fish. Vanaga.

1. The eye; mata neranera, mata kevakeva, mata mamae, to be drowsy; mata keva, mataraparapa, matapo, blind; mata hakahira, squint eyed; mata pagaha, eye strain. 2. Face, expression, aspect, figure, mien, presence, visage, view; mata mine, mata hakataha, mata pupura, mata hakahiro, to consider. 3. Raw, green, unripe. 4. Drop of water. 5. Mesh; hakamata, to make a net. 6. Cutting, flint. 7. Point, spear, spike (a fish bone). 8. Chancre. Matamata, sound of water. Churchill.

There is a wide range of significations in this stem. It will serve to express an opening as small as the mesh of a net or as large as a door of a house; it will serve to designate globular objects as large as the eye or as small as the bud on a twig or the drop of rain, and designating a pointed object it answers with equal facility for the sharpened tip of a lance or the acres of a headland; it describes as well the edge of a paddle or the source from which a thing originates. Churchill 2.

Matá. Black obsidian spear points, all belonging to the Late Period which began ca 1680. Heyerdahl 3.

Pu

1. To come forward to greet someone met on the road; to walk in front, to go in front: ka-pú a mu'a, let them go first. 2. Pú a mu'a, to intervene, to come to someone's rescue; he-pú-mai a mu'a, he-moaha, he came to my rescue and saved my life. 3. Ancient expression: ai ka-pú, ai ka-pú, tell us frankly what you think. 4. Hole, opening, orifice; well; circumference, rotundity; swirling water; pú-haga, vaginal orifice; pú-henua (also just henua), placenta. He pú henua nó te me'e aau, he-oti-á; ina-á me'e ma'u o te rima i-topa-ai koe, a placenta was all you had, it is a past thing now; you held nothing in your hands when you were born (stern words said to children to make them realize that they must not be demanding, since they were born naked and without possessions). 5. To dig out (tubers): he-pú i te uhi, to dig out yams. Vanaga.

1. A trumpet. P Mgv.: pu, a marine shell. Mq.: pu, conch shell. Ta.: pu, shell, trumpet. 2. A small opening, hole, mortise, stirrup, to pierce, to perforate, to prick; pu moo naa, hiding place; taheta pu, fountain, spring; hakapu, to dowel, to pierce, to perforate. PS Sa., Fu., Niuē: pu, a hole. Churchill.

Mq.: Pu, source, origin. Ma.: pu, root, origin, foundation. Churchill.

10 days beyond Gb1-3 (after an inserted central sequence of 9 glyphs) we can see Spring Sun tumbling down and then a pair of poporo signs are following:

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Gb1-4 Gb1-12 Gb1-13
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Gb1-14 Gb1-15 Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 Gb1-19
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If we could say that poporo in Ga3-11 indicates that Old Sun has been buried and is now generating a new 'fire', then the pair of poporo in Gb1-14 and Gb1-19 ought to indicate a similar situation, where a Moon type of light is sprouting - she has 2 'faces' and there must therefore be 2 small plants.

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Ga3-10 (70) Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 Ga3-14
Ga3-15 Ga3-16

From poporo in Ga3-11 (Saturn) up to and including poporo in Gb1-19 (Sun) there are 177 days:

174
Ga3-10 (70) Ga3-11 Gb1-18 (248) Gb1-19
177

Possibly we should count 3 * 11 = 33 (one more than 32) on side a, in contrast to 11 * 9 = 99 on side b. Sun has only 1 face, but Moon has 2.

Tagata, a fully grown person, is growing from the head (inherited from the old generation):

... Ku descended into the ground right where he had stood until only the top of his head was visible. His family waited around the spot he had last been, day and night watering it with their tears until suddenly a small green shoot appeared where Ku had stood ...

At the top end of the vertical line with 'the head of Ku' at bottom (in Ga3-11) there is another type of sign than those in the correponding positions of poporo in Gb1-14 and Gb1-19. These presumably depict the 'canoe' of Moon, which close to the horizon in tropical waters always is floating right side up and horizontally in contrast to the waxing and waning shapes we are accustomed to. There are 2 such 'Moon canoes' for each poporo and 2 months are necessary to fill a 59 night long double-month.

The more rounded shape of the top sign in Ga3-11 will then be a sign for Sun. At left is his white side and at right is his dark side. That is, the front side lies in front. In Ga3-10 tagata ragi is drawn without light - it is a tagata vero sign and the season without light is here ending (fully grown). Hau tea has Janus eyes.

We have seen that 472 = 70 + 402 (which equation then lead us to Ga3-10):

68 123 278
Gb2-24 (280) Gb4-28 (349) Gb2-23 (279)
70 402
Gb6-17 Gb6-18 Gb6-19 (402) Gb6-20

Considering that Ana-mua might be represented by glyph number 186 on the front side, an alternative way to count is to say that the position of Antares is 186 - 70 = 116 = 4 * 59.

Today Antares arrives 70 days after spring equinox south of the equator. Therefore it could also be alluded to at Gb4-28, to suggest a similar star of birth (*). But the length of the cycle born here cannot be a normal Sun cycle (summer), it is too long. And the glyph play takes place on side b.