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TRANSLATIONS
A new map can now be constructed. As a first step we document where the sun is turning around (Ga7-21) and where the moon season is over (Gb5-27):
Notably Gb1-6 is standing beyond the point where sun is turning around. 235 = 5 * 47. It cannot mark summer solstice and therefore it ought to mark the beginning of the moon season according to the calendar. Beyond Gb5-27 there are 91 glyphs, and we should not interpret them to indicate a calendar quarter - Ga7-21 and Gb5-27 tell about what happens in the sky. In Ga1-1 another event in the sky determines the beginning of the G text. Probably it is the other turning around point of the sun, i.e. winter solstice. The calendar for the new year will begin at Ga1-26. Spring and autumn equinox should therefore be located around glyph number 190 / 2 = 95 respectively around 190 + 95 = 285. Let us have a look:
Spring equinox ought to be in the 11th period according to the calculations:
4 * 13 = 52 is a good sign, telling that we are on the right track. In Ga4-13 henua is open at the top - a sign of 'no longer with us'., the 1st quarter of the sky has left. The only other similar glyph is located in the 16th period:
112 - 96 = 17. Is there a kind of 'moon equinox' here? Yes, in a way. 16 is half 32 (= the number of periods in what we once believed was a calendar for the whole year). Therefore, the openended henua in Ga5-3 marks the halfway point - not of the whole year but of the first cycle (half-year), the point where - according to the calendar (not the events in the sky) - spring equinox is located. The allusion to moon comes naturally, because at spring equinox the moon half of the year ends. Glyph number 285 (= 15 * 19) is Gb2-30, a tagata indeed, and he looks backwards:
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