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Suppose the 'flaring top' in Tzec and Pax are indicating 'birth':

5 Tzec 16 Pax

The sun 'monkey' would then not have to leave at Pax.

"Two signs, Tzec and Pax, require the flaring open top, to distinguish them respectively from the chuen and the tun normal sign, on which they are formed. We at once get here the query: What is the relation of chuen and tun to Tzec and Pax, underlying this use? The answer should be partly calendric, perhaps partly historical." (Gates)

Is it possible to structure the 18 Maya months based on the birth of two different rulers, one in Tzec and one in Pax?

5 Tzek 6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol
9 Ch'en 10 Yax 11 Sac 12 Ceh
200
13 Mac 14 Kankin 15 Moan
16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu 19 Vayeb
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz

15 Moan could be illustrating the spirit of the sun, depicted as a falcon, flying away. 200 (10 months) of the tun year could 'belong' to the sun. Then could follow 80 days (4 months) until the tun year has ended.

'... The Pokoman used cah-vinak for 4 times 20, thereby expressing a qualitative difference associated with a multiple of 4. Otherwise they said k'al instead. Maybe Vinapu likewise is a special '4 times' (a multiple of 20)?'

Though number 84 obviously is a more probable length of such a '4 times' measure. 2 * 84 = 168 was also an important number on Easter Island. 360 - 168 = 192 = 6 * 32 = 12 * 16.

Each kuhane station could measure 16 days, and the distance from Hanga Takaure to Hanga Hoonu would then be 6 * 16 = 96 days, or half the full sun distance 192 days:

1st quarter

2nd quarter

3rd quarter

4th quarter

He Anakena (July)

Tagaroa uri (October)

Tua haro (January)

Vaitu nui (April)

Te Pei

Te Pou

Tama

One Tea

Mahatua

Taharoa

Nga Kope Ririva

Te Pu Mahore

Hora iti (August)

Ko Ruti (November)

Tehetu'upú (February)

Vaitu potu (May)

Hua Reva

Akahanga

Hanga Takaure

Poike

Hanga Hoonu

Rangi Meamea

Te Poko Uri

Te Manavai

Hora nui (September)

Ko Koró (December)

Tarahao (March)

He Maro (June)

Hatinga Te Kohe

Roto Iri Are

Pua Katiki

Maunga Teatea

Peke Tau O Hiti

Mauga Hau Epa

Te Kioe Uri

Te Piringa Aniva

84

96

96

84

On Easter Island 6 double-'months' in the sun (redmarked) could have been each 32 days long. 6 * 32 = 192. (Cfr 32 as the number of sun periods in G.)

The rest of the year would then have kuhane stations measuring only 14 night each. 6 double-'months' in the moon would each have 28 nights. 6 * 28 = 168.

192 + 168 = 360, a 'tun'. Or, once upon a time, a 'tun' was born in Pax and measured 168 nights.

192 is numerically related to 168 as 8 to 7. 8 * 24 = 192 and 7 * 24 = 168.

15 * 24 = 360, and 24 is the balanced measure of 32 and 28, given 15 (3 hands) as the pivotal point.