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The 'staff of command' we can recognize as the 'Clara-knife'. Such 'staffs' should - judging from common sense and from what we saw in the calendar of the week (H / P) - not end a 'period' of events but instead be located at the start.

But it seems that its use in this calendar is more fluid. In 1b we indeed have the 'staff' at the start (because in P it connects with the sun).

At the start of 2b the 'staff' is absent because I thought it belonged at the end of 2a. In P obviously the 'person in water' (GD56) belongs to 2a and I saw a close connectiong between this 'person' and the 'staff'. Such a connection indeed is indicated by the contents of the new table I have made (previous page). They seem to come in pairs these glyphs, GD56 and 'Clara-knife'. Or rather GD56 and other types of 'solar persons', as the table shows.

Sometimes 'Clara-knife' is first, sometimes second. In 2a, 5a and 6a it comes second, in 3a and 4a it comes first. Or is this 'play' just my imagination? The 'partner' to the 'staff' in this 'play' seems to be different hand-signs. The 'body' is not so important it seems, in e.g. 6a both 'staff' and hand-sign have a 'fish' as 'body'.

If this 'play' is not just my imagination but part of the meaning the writer has tried to convey, then, 'hand-sign' and 'staff' might be considered as 'nuts' (N)and 'bolts' (') for sewing together the subdivisions of the texts. Although the individual characteristics of these 'nuts' and 'bolts' surely carry supplementary information. That's what all this is summing up to. Plus the fact that I perhaps ought to reorganize my structure so that at least 'knife' (possibly also 'hand-sign' glyphs) are located at the start of the subdivisions of this text instead of at the end.