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4. Talking of tail feathers I have to point out the parallel between a sequence of glyphs at the end of side b in H and the sequence of glyphs arriving immediately before the henua calendar in G:

Hb12-33 Hb12-34 Hb12-35 Hb12-36 Hb12-37 Hb12-38 Hb12-39
Ga2-20 Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26

In fact, this glyph sequence has parallels in several other texts and it could therefore be quite important.

By looking at parallels in different texts it is possible to draw conclusions which otherwise would have been hard to reach. I will therefore take the opportunity to present four more parallels:

Bb12-13 Bb12-14 Bb12-15 Bb12-16 Bb12-17 Bb12-18
*Ra5-12 *Ra5-13 *Ra5-14 *Ra5-15 *Ra5-16 *Ra5-17 *Ra5-18
Ka3-8 Ka3-9 Ka3-10 Ka3-11 Ka3-12 Ka3-13 Ka3-14
Eb6-9 Eb6-10 Eb6-11 Eb6-12 Eb6-13 Eb6-14

A quick perusal will convince anyone who has read from the beginning of Dream Voyager all the way up to this point that only the types of glyphs and their order are parallel. The signs added, however (the adjuncts), clearly are telling quite different stories. Maybe there is a common 'melody' in different 'keys' (perhaps even with different words). The reversed ihe tau in Eb6-9 for instance should generate an optimistic tune in contrast to its parallels.

If we compare the parallel signs in K with those in G, the resemblances are many, but also the differences:

Ga2-20 (51) Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26 (57)
Ka3-8 (*54) Ka3-9 Ka3-10 Ka3-11 Ka3-12 Ka3-13 Ka3-14 (*60)

Remarkably ihe tau in Ga2-20 is drawn exactly as in Ka3-8. It is a rare event to find glyphs which are identical - although uniformed glyphs could easily have been created.

The K tablet is smaller than the G tablet and it has only room for 5 + 5 = 10 glyph lines. This fact, I suggest, made the creator of the K text decide to concentrate on the front side of the year.

When I once painstakingly tried to estimate how many glyphs these 10 lines had - or could have had because there are several spaces without any glyphs - I arrived at 192. At that time this number had no meaning for me. Later, though, I have come to recognize it as the number of days for the front side, e.g.:

... 70 days from what could be winter solstice the tablet must be turned around to side a, and then another 10 weeks are needed in order to reach the midpoint determined by Mercury. But this idea implies we must count 4 * 70 = 280 in order to complete the whole circuit. Support is given by the equation 472 - 280 = 192 ...

In the G text there evidently are 192 days located from Ga8-7:

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Gb6-20 (*1) Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24 (407)
70
69 138
Ga3-10 Ga3-11 (*141) Ga8-6 (*280)
70 140
186
Ga8-7 (211) Ga8-8 Ga8-9 Gb6-17 Gb6-18 Gb6-19 (402)
192

I have suggested that side a of G, with its star pillar structure, is more likely referring to spring north of the equator than to spring south of the equator, and consequently I have implicitly hinted at the possibility that spring south of the equator could follow later on in the text. Maybe it comes beyond Rehua in Ga7-16.

186 happens to be the ordinal number of mago in Ga7-16 (presumably the place of Rehua)

Ga7-14 (184) Ga7-15 Ga7-16 (*256) Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19
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Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Gb1-26 (256) Gb2-1

Considering the 6 glyphs beyond Ga8-9 - which would have decreased the distance 186 to 180 if I had included them in my table for 192 - it becomes possible to imagine a reversal at mago which decreases the ordinal number 186 in the same manner:

Ga8-10 (214) Ga8-11 Ga8-12
Ga8-13 Ga8-14 Ga8-15
Ga7-14 (184) Ga7-15 Ga7-16 (186)
Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19
185 184 183
Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)
182 181 180

Perhaps, therefore, Rei in Ga7-22 - where π is 22 / 7 as at Rei in Ga2-27 - stands at the same point in time (so to say) as Ka1-1.

Ga2-27 (*1) Ga2-28 (59) Ga2-29 Ga3-1 (*4)
Ga3-2 (*5) Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 (*8)
Ka1-1 Ka1-2 Ka1-3 Ka1-4 Ka1-5 Ka1-6
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 (3) Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6

A reversal in counting around Rehua could refer to the situation north of the equator, where the apex of Sun at noon will decrease beyond midsummer:

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Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 (177) Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10 (180)

At glyph number 180 we can count 7 * 10 = 70 as a possible allusion to 'not yet in 192'. But my critical mind protests, it has already swallowed too much.