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Next page (in the series following from the link 'waxing and waning'):

Later on, in the 21st period of the calendar, the 'humpback' makes his appearance:
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Ka3-1 Ka3-2 Ka3-3 Kb2-111 Kb2-112 Kb2-113

Here the open henua (Kb2-112) presumably is a determinative of the 'humpback', to be read as a 'spiritual' or 'ghostly' (no sun present) season. Then the 22nd and 23rd periods complete the season:

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Kb3-1 Kb3-2 Kb3-3 Kb3-4 Kb3-5 Kb3-6
23 In Kb3-8 the middle henua is reversed, compared to those in Ka4-15 and *Kb2-15 (see below). The order of the double henua in Kb3-8 is also reversed compared to that in Kb2-14--15.
Kb3-7 Kb3-8

In Kb3-1--2 (initiating the new glyph line) vanishing is very clearly described. Kb3-8 is the 15th glyph in a group of 'ghostly' periods (20-23). The group is characterized by the strangely bent bottoms:

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21

...

 22

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*Kb2-12 *Kb2-13 *Kb2-14 *Kb2-15 *Kb2-16 Kb3-4

Kb3-8

This is a way to illustrate the turning around of the sun. Therefore, we also will understand the similarly bent tail of mago:

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Ka3-1 Ka3-2 Ka4-13 Ka4-14 Ka4-15

It illustrates the opposite turning around, when sun once again will show his 'face'.

Naturally, we now ought to reexamine the situation. Sun returns (his face) towards us, mago says in period 6 (the number of the sun). Immediately thereafter, from Ka4-15, summer is present.

At the other turnover point, with the humpback as 'herald' (a mirrored 'forerunner' - a runner arriving immediately afterwards), *Kb2-15 is the first day of winter according to the calendar.

Summer extends during 26 weeks (= 52 glyphs) from Ka4-15 up to (but not including) *Kb2-15. Winter then extends from *Kb2-15 up to and including Kb4-11:

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Kb4-10 Kb4-11 Kb4-12 Kb4-13 Kb4-14
103 (51) 104 (52) 105 (1) 106 (2) 107 (3)

To reach the end of winter we must, however, continue with the 3 extracalendrical glyphs in period 29, with periods 30-32 (11 glyphs), and with periods 0-6 (excluding Ka4-15):

0
Ka3-13 Ka3-14 2 2
1 Ka3-15 Ka3-21 7 9
2 Ka4-1 Ka4-3 3 12
3 Ka4-4 Ka4-7 4 16
4 Ka4-8 Ka4-10 3 19
5 Ka4-11 Ka4-12 2 21
6 Ka4-13 Ka4-15 3 24

Adding these 24 glyphs to the 14 beyond the end of the calendar we reach 38, twice 19. At the end of period 4 we also reach 19:

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Ka4-8 Ka4-9 Ka4-10
17 18 19

29 presumably symbolizes the dark 29th moon night, and 19 may symbolize the dark end of sun, after 2 seasons have expired - cfr the 2 dark horizontal marks across henua in Ka4-10. 19 = 10 + 9, and then follows 20 which means 'zero' (nothing left). We should remember Aa1-11:

Aa1-9 Aa1-10 Aa1-11 Aa1-12

11 (30-32) + 2 (0) are - like the blackmarked 3 in period 29 - outside the regular calendar, 16 glyphs equalling, maybe, 8 days. 364 (52 weeks) + 8 days = 372 = 4 * 93 = 12 * 31:

summer 52 glyphs 182 days
winter 52 glyphs 182 days
regular calendar 104 glyphs 364 days
outside d:o 16 glyphs 8 days
sum 120 glyphs 372 days

Period 6 and period 20 marks the turnpoints between summer and winter according to the calendar, i.e. the equinoxes. We must now revise our ideas about the calendar of K beginning around spring equinox - that is not true. The Rei glyphs seem to mark only the solstices, not the equinoxes.

12 weeks (24 glyphs) are needed (according to the calendar) before summer arrives. 14 (to reach 26) weeks of winter, i.e. 28 glyphs, come after summer:

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*Kb2-16 *Kb2-18 3 3
22 Kb3-1 Kb3-6 6 9
23 Kb3-7 Kb3-8 2 11
24 Kb3-9 Kb3-10 2 13
25 Kb3-11 Kb3-13 3 16
26 Kb3-14 Kb3-16 3 19
27 Kb4-1 Kb4-5 5 24
28 Kb4-6 Kb4-9 4 28

In period 20 we must, though, count also the last glyph (*Kb2-15). Then in period 29 we can add the first 2 glyphs (Kb4-10--11). 28 + 1 + 2 = 31, a kind of signal it seems (31 * 12 = 372).

Before summer we have period 0 with 2 glyphs, and then 21 up to and including mago (Ka4-14), i.e. 23 glyphs. 23 + 31 = 54, but 2 are outside the regular calendar.

Once again 19 appears, now at the end of period 26 (which seems intentional):

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Kb3-14 Kb3-15 Kb3-16
17 18 19