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Following the other hyperlink 'the end of the text' (to investigate the surroundings of the only reversed bent henua in K) we find the following pages:

 
Kb4-5, the single glyph in K which has a henua bent with its concave side to the right, is located at the end of the 27th period of the 2nd calendar:
27
Kb4-1 Kb4-2 Kb4-3 Kb4-4 Kb4-5

Kb4-5 may refer to a season where light is waning. Kb4-1 initiates the penultimate text line of the tablet. Arms held high without hands in Kb4-4 suggest the opposite to summer solstice.

Counting glyphs from *Kb2-16 we find Kb4-5 to be number 24:

21

*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

10 of these glyphs are covered by what can be called the 'humpback season' (periods 21, 22 and the first glyph in period 23). The 14 following are beyond that season:

*52 glyphs

Ka4-15

*Kb2-15

summer?

8 glyphs

12 glyphs

*Kb2-16 Kb3-7

Kb3-8

Kb4-5

'humpback season' 4th quarter?

Kb4-5 has ordinal number 5, and period 27 is together with period 29 the only periods in the 2nd calendar with 5 glyphs. Number 5 suggests 'fire' (by way of the number of fingers on a hand). Rima means both 5 and hand.
27
Kb4-1 Kb4-2 Kb4-3 Kb4-4 Kb4-5
28
Kb4-6 Kb4-7 Kb4-8 Kb4-9
29
Kb4-10 Kb4-11 Kb4-12 Kb4-13 Kb4-14
30
Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18

5 is also the difference between 365 and 360, and from the darkest 5 days at the end of the old year somehow a new 'sun' will emerge. The 5 internal markings in Kb4-8 indicate these 5 days.

In the 1st calendar there are 5 glyphs between Ka3-7 and the 'fire generators':

Ka3-7 Ka3-8 Ka3-9 Ka3-10 Ka3-11 Ka3-12 Ka3-13 Ka3-14
5 glyphs

Counting glyphs from Ka2-7 up to and including Kb4-5 we reach *128 glyphs. Taking away the 3 Rei glyphs there remain *125 (= 5 * 5 * 5) glyphs. Considering e.g. the 6 'feathers' in Kb4-5 it is probable that the 'end of sun' in some way is defined to be at Kb4-5.

Ka2-7 Ka2-8 Ka2-9 Ka2-10

Readjusting our calendar table according to the new ideas we get:

1st calendar:
6 A Ka2-1--6 6
4 B Ka2-7--9 3 28
B Ka2-10 1
24 C Ka2-11--16 6 12 24
D Ka2-17--22 6
E Ka3-1--4 4 12
F Ka3-5--8 4
G Ka3-9--12 4
2nd calendar:
2 0 Ka3-13--14 2 *100
1 1 Ka3-15 1
20 1-5 Ka3-16--Ka4-12 18 20
6 Ka4-13--14 2
*52 6-16 Ka4-15--Kb1-10 26 *52
16-20 Kb1-11--*Kb2-14 *26
1 20 *Kb2-15 1
24 21-23 *Kb2-16--Kb3-7 10 24
23-27 Kb3-8--Kb4-5 14

Here the two glyphs in period 0 are both regarded as belonging to the 2nd calendar. The 'fire generators' belong to the calendar of sunlight, we can guess.

What more can be said? Earlier we reached *100 as the sum of 26 (1st calendar) and *74 (2nd calendar), when counting from (inclusive) the 1st Rei to *Kb2-15:

*98
Ka2-10 *Kb2-15 *Kb2-1
1 *100 *101

*100 now emerges as the natural sum from the 1st glyph beyond last of the toga glyphs to the reversed bent henua, or couldn't we instead count *100 between Ka3-12 and viri:

*99
Ka3-12 Kb4-5 Kb4-6
0 *100

In Tahua, we have learnt, counting by way of viri is important. Let us take a look at K:

4 81 *47 *27 *5
Ka2-5 Kb1-14 Kb4-6 Kb5-304
5 87 *135 *163
0 82 *130 *158

81 = 9 * 9, while *47 = prime number. Counting long from the 1st viri to the 3rd we get 1 + 81 + 1 + *47 + 1 = 131 (a prime number). Counting short we get 129 (= 3 * 43), counting normal 130 (= 10 * 13 = 5 * 26).

4 + 81 + *47 + *27 + *5 = 164. Then adding the 4 glyphs we reach 168 = 2 * 84.

In other words from line Ka2 to the end of the text we have 8 groups of 21 glyphs (or 4 of 42 glyphs).

The summer half of the year is - it seems - defined by the equinoxes (mago and 'humpback'), but also by the positively bent henua in Ka4-15 respectively *Kb2-15:

 

*52 glyphs

Ka4-14

Ka4-15

*Kb2-15

*Kb2-16

Beyond *Kb2-15 follows the 10 glyphs of the 'humpback season' (autumn equinox):

 

8 glyphs

*Kb2-16 Kb3-7

The last regular season of the year (14 glyphs) then appears to be defined by negatively bent henua:

 

12 glyphs

Kb3-8

Kb4-5

The one at left in Kb3-8 has a straight vertical right side, while in Kb4-5 both vertical sides are bent (and the henua is thin).

Beyond Kb4-5 we will, I think, pass beyond 360 days into the critical 5 day darkness. Possibly the end of the K text can be presented as follows:

 

27
Kb4-1 Kb4-2 Kb4-3 Kb4-4 Kb4-5
28
Kb4-6 Kb4-7 Kb4-8 Kb4-9
1 2 3 4
29
Kb4-10 Kb4-11 Kb4-12 Kb4-13 Kb4-14
5 6 7 8 9
30
Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18
10 11 12 13
31 ...
Kb4-19 *Kb5-1 *Kb5-2 *Kb5-3
14 *15 *16 *17
32 ...
*Kb5-4 *Kb5-5 *Kb5-6 *Kb5-7 *Kb5-8
*18 *19 *20 *21 *22
33 ...
*Kb5-9 *Kb5-10 *Kb5-11 *Kb5-12
*23 *24 *25 *26
34

*Kb5-13

*Kb5-14

*Kb5-15

*Kb5-16
*27

*28

*29

*30

*Kb5-17

*Kb5-18 *Kb5-19 *Kb5-20

*31

*32 *33 *34

*Kb5-12 (Kb5-301) has a sign of viri horizontally at bottom, and the ordinal number is *12 in the last line of the text (Kb5), and the glyph is the *26th counted long from *Kb4-6 (viri).

Note the similarity in form between *Kb5-12 and Kb4-7. The 1st viri (Ka2-5) has in the parallel G text a similar glyph type:

Ka2-1 Ka2-2 Ka2-3 Ka2-4 Ka2-5
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26

*Kb5-16 (vai) agrees in general meaning with the inverted henua ora in Kb4-19 - life (light) is present again.

 

12 ... *10
Kb4-6 Kb4-19 *Kb5-1 *Kb5-12
1 14 15 *26
...

*Kb5-13

*Kb5-14

*Kb5-15

*Kb5-16
*27

*28

*29

*30

*Kb5-17

*Kb5-18 *Kb5-19 *Kb5-20

*31

*32 *33 *34

In short:

 

*24 *7
Kb4-6 *Kb5-12 *Kb5-20
1 *26 *34
end of year

The importance of 24 and 7 is, maybe, why Ga7-24 is the parallel to *Kb5-15:

 

-

*Kb5-14

*Kb5-15

*Kb5-16

*28

*29

*30

-

Ga7-22

Ga7-23

Ga7-24

Rei in Ga7-22 appers to be another way of presenting the idea of a new season of light beginning, and then vai is not a necessary glyph.