Line a5 has 35 glyphs and - just as in the Q and P texts - this line has most glyphs of all on the front side. I will continue to assign dates, though I have no 'proof' they are correct. July 5 can be written as 7-5, which then can be read as 5 weeks. 7 * 5 = 35 = 1 / 10 of the number of regular days in the old Roman calendar, alternatively 35 is a sign of 350 because zero is nothing. July 5 could be the beginning of the year. A quartet at the end of line a4 could serve as 'sky raisers' (south of the equator where the winter month July corresponds to the winter month January far up in the north).
These 4 + 8 = 12 glyphs form a group and obviously it is meant we should notice how the 1st tamaiti (Ca4-26) has disappeared. Possibly the text remembers a time when Castor rose heliacally in July 9, but more likely it is a recognition of the beginning of the Heka manzil. Hau tea at left (in the past) in Ca5-2 - a glyph which exhibits a time division - could be related to hau tea in Ca4-3 (in June 8):
Beyond what could be Gregorian day 193 a new sequence of glyphs is beginning, first illustrating gradually increasing light. 116 = 4 * 29:
The following 5 + 4 = 9 glyphs are intriguing:
Hura in Ca5-14 is not a common type of glyph. In H it possibly is connected with the end of March::
Alternatively, and better, is to count heliacal days in G continuously from the beginning of side a and then the Gregorian day number 86 turns into 86 + 107 = 193 (July 12). In Ca5-14 we presumably can regard its presence as a sign of where a new season is about to 'ignite'. Perhaps what is illustrated in Ca5-14--15 are the 4 corners of a pyramid with the central apex uplifted. July 19 is halfway to 400. The Egyptian X asterism has Sirius in its center. Between Ca5-18 and Ca5-19 there is a 'mirror of reversal'. July 22 is 7-22 which can allude to the 'exit portal' (Π), because 7 / 22 is the inverse of 22 / 7. The remaining 15 glyphs in the line are evidently grouped as 3 + 8 + 4:
It would not be surprising if the last 4 are to be considered as the beginning of next glyph line, especially as the last glyph in the 8-group might represent Gregorian day number 216. Once again the structure with 3 + 1 is used, here with rising kahi fishes. They could be 'sky proppers' and this impression is strengthened by the pair of tagata with no mata - they are stretching their dry winter arms high. South of the equator the beginning of August can be compared with the beginning of February. 214 / 2 = 107 and 52 * 9 = 468. 531 = 18 * 29½ and 216 = 18 * 12. This means 18 * (29½ - 12) = 315 = 45 * 7. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
