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When the bright light from the dominant Sun changed character and became less furious and more soft in characther it allowed the stars to emerge.
We could count Hb4-1 ↔ Hb3-48) as 3 * 48 = 12 * 12, a square of 12, which then should remind us of the number of glyphs on side b on the C tablet. And then we would realize that July 11 is day number 181 + 11 = 192 → Porrima (*192). And MAY 8 (→ 5-8 → 58 → 2 * 29) is day number 128 = 2 * 64 counted from the beginning of the year, which in a way should correspond to 200, according to the ideas of Ogotêmmeli. ... Ogotemmêli had his own ideas about calculation. The Dogon in fact did use the decimal system, because from the beginning they had counted on their fingers, but the basis of their reckoning had been the number eight and this number recurred in what they called in French la centaine, which for them meant eighty. Eighty was the limit of reckoning, after which a new series began. Nowadays there could be ten such series, so that the European 1,000 corresponded to the Dogon 800. But Ogotemmêli believed that in the beginning men counted by eights - the number of cowries on each hand, that they had used their ten fingers to arrive at eighty, but that the number eight appeared again in order to produce 640 (8 x 10 x 8). 'Six hundred and forty', he said, 'is the end of the reckoning.' So we have reason to expect 3a to begin at a new counting.
And then will come 3b and 3c:
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