The bent knees, at the base of 'female' and 'mother', are located at the opposite of the head (front). In 'mother' they are surely corresponding to winter solstice, in 'female' they are close to the crossed arms.

At winter solstice one year is ending and a new year starts. Periods of time may be compared to limbs. One limb (one arm) is ending and another is beginning.

The new year is 'seating' (in the Mayan sense) already before the end of the old year, and the old year is remaining at the beginning of the new year. The 'female' arms crossing each other may be a picture of this.

Whereas 'mother' holds one arm straight like a wooden beam, in 'female' they are bent like boughs and crossing each other at the ends. Presumably these branches are still full of dormant life. In the Swedish language 'axel' means shoulder, axle, axis.

GD36 is a glyph type which connects to these ideas, a supple branch which is bent, i.e. not wooden, not an expression of light and order, cfr GD37.