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There are no pure glyphs in the calendars we have been studying so far. The absence may be just a coincidence, yet the calendars map the real world, not the world of the spirits.

In the text of G (Small Santiago Tablet) the glyph type is not represented anywhere, but in K (London Tablet) there is one instance:

Ka3-1 Ka3-2 Ka3-3 Ka3-4 Ka3-5 Ka3-6 Ka3-7
Ga2-13 Ga2-14 Ga2-15 Ga2-16 Ga2-17 Ga2-18 Ga2-19

Ka3-7 shows a variant of manu rere with an upraised arm and under its elbow an ornament is hanging down which definitely is pure. In the parallel Ga2-19 a different elbow ornament is seen, and its open end implies 'spirit'.

The ordinal numbers (7 respectively 19) may allude to 1 past 6 (sun) respectively 1 past 18 (sun). Although this parallel 7-glyph long sequence lies before the calendar of the year they are in a way connected.

The hyperlink 'connected' leads to the two following pages:

 

Immediately beyond the 7-glyph long sequence another 7-glyph sequence arrives, viz. the 'zero'-period of the year calendar:
0
Ka3-8 Ka3-9 Ka3-10 Ka3-11 Ka3-12 Ka3-13 Ka3-14
Ga2-20 Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26

The redmarked glyph types appear in both the 7-glyph long sequences (although in a mirrored order):

Ka3-1 Ka3-2 Ka3-3 Ka3-4 Ka3-5 Ka3-6 Ka3-7
Ga2-13 Ga2-14 Ga2-15 Ga2-16 Ga2-17 Ga2-18 Ga2-19
At the other end, immediately before these double 7 parallel glyph sequences, another calendar-like summary seems to be defined:
1 1
Ga2-1 Ga2-2 Ka2-11 Ka2-12
2 2
Ga2-3 Ga2-4 Ka2-13 Ka2-14
3 3
Ga2-5 Ga2-6 Ka2-15 Ka2-16
4 4
Ga2-7 Ga2-8 Ka2-17 Ka2-18
5 5
Ga2-9 Ga2-10 Ka2-19 Ka2-20
6 6
Ga2-11 Ga2-12 Ka2-21 Ka2-22

Also here we recognize the peculiar glyph type in Ka3-4 and Ka3-12 respectively in Ga12-16 and Ga2-24:

... ... ...
Ka3-4 Ka3-12
... ... ...
Ga2-16 Ga2-24
The ordinal numbers for the glyphs of this type are - it seems - always even, probably here a sign of completeness.

Then follows a page discussing the possible meaning of pure in Ka3-7:

What may the pure sign in Ka3-7 mean?
Ka3-1 Ka3-2 Ka3-3 Ka3-4 Ka3-5 Ka3-6 Ka3-7
Ga2-13 Ga2-14 Ga2-15 Ga2-16 Ga2-17 Ga2-18 Ga2-19

In analogy with how in the Mamari moon calendar the 'moon fish' glyphs indicate rising (waxing) and falling (waning) the red-marked glyphs above probably indicate how the 'sun fish' is waxing and waning.

If so, then - at the end of waning - signs of spirithood are reasonable to expect.

The rather unusual glyph types in Ka3-2--3 (respectively in Ga2-14--15) may help us to understand more.

Ka3-2 (respectively Ga2-14) are examples of mago, while the 'humpbacked' type of glyph seen in Ka3-3 (respectively Ga2-15) have not been given any special name - they belong to the kai type.

We have noted how mago appears in the 6th period of the calendar:

6

Ga3-22

Ga3-23

Ga3-24
6

Ka4-13

Ka4-14

Ka4-15

Ga3-23 has sun-indicating 'fins', while in Ka4-14 the 'fins' seem to suggest the moon. Also the ordinal number 23 may indicate the last period of the sun, while 14 similarly indicates the end of a (moon-determined) fortnight. The head in Ga3-23 is more rounded than the head in Ka4-14.

And we remember the difference in number of periods up to 'autumn equinox': 18 for G and 16 for K. While full moon occurs - it seems - in the 6th period of K, another phenomenon (referring to the sun) is illustrated in G:

... In the 6th period of Small Santiago another haś glyph, designed in a different way, presumably tells about when the 'gods' descend to the earth:

6

Ga3-22

Ga3-23

Ga3-24

16 (mostly dot-like) marks are distributed rather evenly around the outer perimeter, but they come into contact with the 'branch' at only two points. Otherwise they fly above.

The 9th and 10th marks are feather marks - not dots. They touch the ground (the 'branch'), they do not fly above (dots). Equally: the 13th, 14th and 15th marks are feathers (not dots).

The 'branch' presumably illustrates the path of the sun over the 'summer year', and at crucial times the gods assemble, come down to earth ...