The shape in Aa8-24 looks similar to the glyphs for showing daybreak, when the Sun not yet has come up but makes itself known at the horizon in the east. It too reminds me of Aa7-31. Perhaps this similarity indicates that something is due to arrive, something which now is making itself known? Considering the location of Aa7-31 (18 * 29½ = 531 → 610 - 79) it might be is the summer year which is arriving. ... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ... Although a new year should begin at winter solstice, there will still be a deep interest in the arrival of summer. Before the solstices became the governing points the changes connected with the arrivals of summer and winter might have defined the year (or rather half-years). If the change from winter to summer was taking place in periods nos. 4-5 things begin to look somewhat more understandable. I think we have now found a clue to why the middle balls are bigger in the glyphs looking like this:
And also why there is a quartered ball hanging from the elbow in this glyph - at the knee in front:
And Aa8-22 (see above) might then show the equinoxes at top and bottom. No hole there, because Sun is not yet born, and his time should not yet be counted..
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