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Several 'fist' signs appear in the kava area of G, for instance:
Gb6-17 Gb6-18 Gb6-19

Open hands precede the first of the kava glyphs (Ga5-25):

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Gb5-21 Gb5-22 Gb5-25

Possibly empty hands are transformed by kava into 'fist' signs, one could say that the open hands become pregnant. A conjunction reasonably results in offspring.

The link 'open hands' leads to:

"The state of the tree loomed large in their thoughts, because it came about at the same time the head of One Hunaphu was put in the fork. The Xibalbans said among themselves: 'No one is to pick the fruit, nor is anyone to go beneath the tree', they said. They restricted themselves, all of Xibalba held back.

It isn't clear which is the head of One Hunaphu; now it's exactly the same as the fruit of the tree. Calabash came to be its name, and much was said about it. A maiden heard about it, and here we shall tell of her arrival. And here is the account of a maiden, the daughter of a lord named Blood Gatherer.

And this is when a maiden heard of it, the daughter of a lord. Blood Gatherer is the name of her father, and Blood Moon is the name of the maiden. And when he heard the account of the fruit of the tree, her father retold it. And she was amazed at the account: I'm not acquainted with that tree they talk about. It's fruit is truly sweet! they say, I hear, she said.

Next, she went all alone and arrived where the tree stood. It stood at the Place of Ball Game Sacrifice. What? Well! What's the fruit of this tree? Shouldn't this tree bear something sweet? They shouldn't die, they shouldn't be wasted. Should I pick one? said the maiden.

And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told.

I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone.

Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden.

And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator.

The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it." (Popol Vuh)

In Kb4-19 the head is displaced from its normal position into the place of a fist, in the glyph positioned as number 19 immediately before the invisible (presumably pito) glyph *Kb5-1:

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Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18 Kb4-19 *Kb5-1
Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16
Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21

An inverted henua ora is, it seems, the result of this displacement into a 'One Hunaphu' position. In Ga7-15 (as in the full moon night) an open hand is present. From the elbow a kind of growth emerges. In Ga7-20, a later stage, the open hand has closed and become a great fist.

In this representation we ought to search for kava signs in the interval between Ga7-15 and Ga7-20. Hands towards heaven uplifted from the earth (henua) in Ga7-17 are similar to the position of Blood Moon under the tree. The kava time must therefore be in Ga7-18--19.

Considering the sign of a little 'eye' as indicating kava in for instance Ca10-10, the presence in Ga7-19 of such a sign at bottom surely implies it is the dark time (-19) in which the 'ignitition' occurs:

kava rima Ca10-10 Gb5-25 Ga7-19

It is a single 'eye', not two as in Gb5-25, implying the '1st generation'. It must be the generation of the 2nd half of the year, and '1st generation' refers to the generation accomplished by the 'head' of the 1st half of the year.

In Ga7-18 it appears as if the top 'head' is severed from the bottom part, and the glyph therefore plays the male role, while Ga7-19 has a female role. It is female not only because of ordinal number 19 (darkness) but also by the canoe form - an upside down 'canoe' was the house (hare paega) of the Easter Islanders. Inside such a 'canoe' it was completely dark.

Yet, here a 'baby sun' ignites. It is located at the bottom, while the old 'head' was at the top. Ga7-15 and Ga7-20 depict a woman (the 'Blood Moon'), and the form of the 'beak' is implying pregnancy.

In Saturday, according to the H text, we now will recognize the reason for the little 'droplet' at bottom - it is the new week soon to be born:

Hb9-54 Ga7-19

Having established a sign of kava also in Ga7-19, we should look at distances:

24 208 235
Ga1-1 Ga1-26 Gb1-6 Gb8-30

There are several different possible starting points for counting. We can try systematically and begin at the beginning:

Ga1-1 1 Ga1-1 1
Ga7-19 188 Gb5-25 378
188 = 4 * 47 378 = 9 * 42

188 is very close to 190 (= 378 - 188), i.e. Gb5-25 is about twice the distance from Ga1-1. By manipulating we can change the numbers in different ways, for instance into 187 (not counting Ga1-26) respectively 376 (not counting Ga1-26 and not counting Gb1-6). Another way of counting is to begin at Ga1-26 respectively at Gb1-6:

Ga1-26 1 Gb1-6 1
Ga7-19 164 Gb5-25 144
164 = 4 * 41 144 = 4 * 36

4 is a number which probably must be included. Not only because it appears in 3 out of 4 places, but foremost because a 'year' ought to be possible to divide into 'quarters.

378 = 4 * 94.5 is not a good number, while 144 obviously is good. Therefore we must not jump over Ga1-26 or Gb1-6 when we count.

A better number than 164 would be 4 * 42 = 168. To reach it we must begin with Ga1-22:

Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26

Much speaks for beginning to count at Ga1-22, i.e. 4 glyphs before Ga1-26. In the night calendar the first glyph beyond midnight is a 'canoe':

Aa1-37 Aa1-38
Aa1-39 Aa1-40 Aa1-41
Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45
Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48

Ga1-21--22 are reflected in Ga7-19:

Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga7-19

Therefore we ought to count like this:

Ga1-22 1 Gb1-6 1
Ga7-19 168 Gb5-25 144
168 = 4 * 42 144 = 4 * 36

168 = 6 * 28 (moon) and 144 = 6 * 24 (sun). Yet another 'map' for G has been discovered. And we possibly should imagine a pattern where 5 = (1 + 2) + (1 + 1):

Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26