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The 4th (unlucky) part in my perceived calendar had only 3 glyphs. Instead of 52 glyphs (for 52 days) there were only (8 + 4 + 7) + 3 = 22, but all of them evidently pregnant with meaning:

1   1-13
2  14-26
3  27-39

4  40-52

For several of these glyphs I had comments. For practical reasons, though, all these cannot be repeated here. But a pair quoting Popol Vuh are worthy of remembering:

"This is the account, here it is. Now it still ripples, now it still murmurs, ripples, it still sighs, still hums, and it is empty under the sky. Here follows the first words, the first eloquence:

There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, forest. Only the sky alone is there; the face of the earth is not clear. Only the sea alone is pooled under all the sky; there is nothing whatever gathered together. It is at rest; not a single thing stirs. It is held back, kept at rest under the sky.

Whatever there is that might be is simply not there: only the pooled water, only the calm sea, only it alone is pooled. Whatever might be is simply not there: only murmurs, ripples, in the dark, in the night. Only the Maker, Modeler alone, Sovereign Plumed Serpent, the Bearers, Begetters are in the water, a glittering light. They are there, they are enclosed in quetzal feathers, in blue-green. Thus the name, 'Plumed Serpent'. They are great knowers, great thinkers in their very being.

And of course there is the sky, and there is also the Heart of Sky. This is the name of the god, as it is spoken. And then came his word, he came here to the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, here in the blackness, in the early dawn. He spoke with the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, and they talked, then they thought, then they worried. They agreed with each other, they joined their words, their thoughts. Then it was clear, then they reached accord in the light, and then humanity was clear, when they conceived the growth, the generation of trees, of bushes, and the growth of life, of humankind, in the blackness, in the early dawn, all because of the Heart of Sky, named Hurricane, Thunderbolt Hurricane comes first, the second is Newborn Thunderbolt, and the third is Sudden Thunderbolt.

So there were three of them, as Heart of Sky, who came to the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, when the dawn of life was conceived: 'How should the sowing be, and the dawning? Who is to be provider, nurturer?'

'Let it be this way, think about it: this water should be removed, emptied out for the formation of the earth's own plate and platform, then should come the sowing, the dawning of the sky-earth. But there will be no high days and no bright praise for our work, our design, until the rise of the human work, the human design,' they said.

And then the earth arose because of them, it was simply their word that brought it forth. For the forming of the earth they said 'Earth'. It arose suddenly, just like a cloud, like a mist, now forming, unfolding. Then the mountains were separated from the water, all at once the great mountains came forth. By their genius alone, by their cutting edge alone they carried out the conception of the mountain-plain, whose face grew instant groves of cypress and pine.

And the Plumed Serpent was pleased with this: 'It was good that you came, Heart of Sky, Hurricane, and Newborn Thunderbolt, Sudden Thunderbolt. Our work, our design will turn out well', they said."

"They walked in crowds when they arrived at Tulan, and there was no fire. Only those with Tohil had it: this was the tribe whose god was first to generate fire. How it was generated is not clear. Their fire was already burning when Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night first saw it:

'Alas! Fire has not yet become ours. We'll die from the cold', they said. And then Tohil spoke: 'Do not grieve. You will have your own even when the fire you're talking about has been lost', Tohil told them.

'Aren't you a true god! Our sustenance and our support! Our god!' they said when they gave thanks for what Tohil had said. 'Very well, in truth, I am your god: so be it. I am your lord: so be it,' the penitents and sacrificers were told by Tohil.

And this was the warming of the tribes. They were pleased by their fire.

After that a great downpour began, which cut short the fire of the tribes. And hail fell thickly on all the tribes, and their fires were put out by the hail. Their fires didn't start up again. So then Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night asked for their fire again: 'Tohil, we'll be finished off by the cold', they told Tohil. 'Well, do not grive', said Tohil. Then he started a fire. He pivoted inside his sandal."

This is the short 4th part (+ glyph Ga3-20):

Ga3-17 Ga3-18 (77) Ga3-19 Ga3-20
JUNE 5 (156) 6 (442) 7 (15 * 29½ + ½) 8
no star listed (140) Markab Velorum (141.5), Al Minhar al Asad (141.6) Star-25

ANA-HEU-HEU-PO

Al Tarf-7
ALPHARD (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7) ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)
August 8 (220) 9 10 11
ºAugust 4 (216) 5 (*137) 6 7
'July 12 (193) 13 14 15 (*116)
"June 28 (179) 29 30 (*101) "July 1
NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 5 6 (*260) 7 8 (342)
Dai (323.5), β Equulei (323.8) γ Pavonis (324.1), Yan (324.6) Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 / Emptiness-11 no star listed (326)
Tsin (325.2), Alphirk (325.7), SADALSUD, ξ Gruis (325.9)
February 7 (403) 8 9 (40) 10 (*326)
ºFebruary 3 4 (400) 5 (36) 6 (*322)
'January 11 12 13 (378) 14 (*299)
"December 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)

Counting 364 regular calendar days in a Sun year, equal to 4 * 91 days, makes day 365 into a special case - as if the fire in the sky had been put out. Alterf (λ Leonis) - at Ga3-20 - has a name which means 'End'. I have not indicated Alterf in Hevelius' picture below, but it should be in the mouth of the Lion, and we can see Alterf slightly lower than at an imaginary straight line from ζ past ε:

It looks as if the Lion's tongue has been cut off by Alterf, and with his tongue drawn like an example of ihe tau horizontally oriented and then reversed:

ihe tau Ab1-37

To reverse ihe tau ought to indicate a reversal of its meaning. In Ab1-37 ihe tau is reversed, moving from 'death' to birth (hanau) of 'life'. Significantly 1-37 probably alludes to 137 = 364 - 227 (π). Basically ihe tau is a sign of death and in Ga3-20 we can perceive its opposite - eating (and growing) under an illuminated sky (ragi). The End is also a new Beginning. When the Old Head has been buried a new life begins:

... When the man, Ulu, returned to his wife from his visit to the temple at Puueo, he said, 'I have heard the voice of the noble Mo'o, and he has told me that tonight, as soon as darkness draws over the sea and the fires of the volcano goddess, Pele, light the clouds over the crater of Mount Kilauea, the black cloth will cover my head. And when the breath has gone from my body and my spirit has departed to the realms of the dead, you are to bury my head carefully near our spring of running water. Plant my heart and entrails near the door of the house. My feet, legs, and arms, hide in the same manner. Then lie down upon the couch where the two of us have reposed so often, listen carefully throughout the night, and do not go forth before the sun has reddened the morning sky. If, in the silence of the night, you should hear noises as of falling leaves and flowers, and afterward as of heavy fruit dropping to the ground, you will know that my prayer has been granted: the life of our little boy will be saved.' And having said that, Ulu fell on his face and died. His wife sang a dirge of lament, but did precisely as she was told, and in the morning she found her house surrounded by a perfect thicket of vegetation. 'Before the door,' we are told in Thomas Thrum's rendition of the legend, 'on the very spot where she had buried her husband's heart, there grew a stately tree covered over with broad, green leaves dripping with dew and shining in the early sunlight, while on the grass lay the ripe, round fruit, where it had fallen from the branches above. And this tree she called Ulu (breadfruit) in honor of her husband ...

 

The nose of Leo (Al Minhar al Asad) is κ and Hevelius has put this star at the top of a prominent black fuzzy ball immediately below his nostrils. Here the nose of Cancer touches the nose of Leo and in Ga3-18 we can imagine Cancer at left and Leo at left, joined by their beaks forming an apex. But also joined below (thus forming a hole) by their wings - just as Hevelius has put the right claw of Cancer in touch with the left front paw of the Lion.

Egyptian hand Phoenician kaph Greek kappa Κ (κ)

Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ...

... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. 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.

  

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs)  'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...

The biting or eating of the Sun appears here to be transposed to its opposite, with the Lion eating Alterf.

Lambda implies darkness and indeed the Lion (alias the Sun), when he arrives, makes darkness disappear ('swallows it').

Egyptian menchet Phoenician lamedh Greek lambda Λ (λ)

... Wikipedia has no information regarding the origin of the Phoenician lamedh, but the Egyptian 'cloth' hieroglyph (menchet) is - I suggest - related to the 4 upside down sky pillars. I.e. the basic element of the 'covering' hieroglyph could have indicated darkness: