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7. Maybe I have counted 1 bead too many, maybe they should be 354. But I cannot manipulate the figures I have arrived at.

Looking again at my summary table I conclude there can hardly be anything wrong with number 126 for the number of beads on the L-strings:

The bowls together:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 31 27 28 86
Inside the bowl: 28 29 25 82
Sum: 59 56 53 168
Inside the bowl: 67 42 78 187
Sum visible beads: 126 98 131 355

56 (= 7 * 8) + 42 (= 7 * 6) = 98 (= 7 * 14) for the C strings is hardly wrong either. But the odd number 131 looks suspicious. It is 'one more' than 130 (= 260 / 2).

In the southern bowl the R string has a special case:

There is 1 bead, the last before the rim, which in the background has a dark shadow. I guess the meaning could be 'not to be counted according to Moon'. I did not count beads which were hidden and not visible. Here we have the opposite case, a bead which is very much visible because of a shadow behind.

If I am right, then there are (at least) two ways to count:

COUNTING BY SUN
R string of the southern bowl:
12   3 7 1
12 15 22 23
5 4 4 1 5 3 3 2 1 4 1
28 32 36 37 42 45 48 50 51 55 56
COUNTING BY MOON
R string of the southern bowl:
11   3 7 1
11 14 21 22
5 4 4 1 5 3 3 2 1 4 1
27 31 35 36 41 44 47 49 50 54 55

The word 'eleven' means 'one more (than ten)' and number 11 is black according to my colour scheme. Saturn generates 'the sacred'fire'.

COUNTING BY SUN
Southern bowl:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 9 7 12 28
Inside the bowl: 1 + 3 19 11 34
Sum: 13 26 23 62
Inside the bowl: 50 23 33 106
Sum visible beads: 63 49 56 168
COUNTING BY MOON
Southern bowl:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 9 7 11 27
Inside the bowl: 1 + 3 19 11 34
Sum: 13 26 22 61
Inside the bowl: 50 23 33 106
Sum visible beads: 63 49 55 167
COUNTING BY SUN
The bowls together:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 31 27 28 86
Inside the bowl: 28 29 25 82
Sum: 59 56 53 168
Inside the bowl: 67 42 78 187
Sum visible beads: 126 98 131 355
COUNTING BY MOON
The bowls together:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 31 27 27 85
Inside the bowl: 28 29 25 82
Sum: 59 56 52 167
Inside the bowl: 67 42 78 187
Sum visible beads: 126 98 130 354

But then we should also consider a similar case in the northern bowl. Here there are 12 beads which are extraordinary visible at the end of the R string and inside the bowl. 45 could then change to 33 and 63 emerge as the sum also on the R string of the northern bowl. 25 * 7 = 175:

Northern bowl with 12 beads at the end of R discarded:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 22 20 16 58
Inside the bowl: 24 10 14 48
Sum: 46 30 30 106
Inside the bowl: 17 19 33 69
Sum visible beads: 63 49 63 175