London Tablet Number of glyphs per line a1 19 *5 *24 b1 20 *2 *22 a2 22 - 22 b2 17 *1 *18 a3 21 - 21 b3 16 - 16 a4 16 - 16 b4 19 - 19 a5 14 - 14 b5 17 *3 *20 sum 92 *5 *97 sum 89 *6 *95 Numbers with asterisk (*) are reconstructed because the glyphs have been destroyed.

I guess *97 + *95 =  *192 was a number chosen because 52 + 140 = 192. 52 for the number of glyphs in summer and 140 for those referring to winter.

52 / 2 = 26 weeks = 182 days. 182 + 140 / 2 = 252 days is hardly correct, unless we read 252 as 2nd 52.

The 26 summer weeks are then located between mago and the 'humpback', which certainly represent the equinoxes. The bent 'tails' are expressing the opposite situation (as regards sun and stars) compared to the horizontal solstices (where everything is 'flat' - standing still):

 

*80			25		*25			*57
	Ka4-14	Ka4-15		Kb1-11		*Kb2-15	*Kb2-16
*81		26		1	*26		*58
*192

Both 81 and 58 are numbers indicating darkness: 81 = 9 * 9 (where 9 is the last of the one-figure numbers) and 58 = 2 * 29 (the dark night of the moon). Kb1-11 in the center is odd. 192 is an even number and therefore the center should be 2 glyphs (e.g. with 5 and 6 being in the middle of 10). But there are 3 Rei, and if they are not counted, we must reduce the number for counting a middle from 192 to 189, in which case there will be a single central glyph, number 95:

*78			14		10	*25			*57
	Ka4-14	Ka4-15		Ka5-14			*Kb2-15	*Kb2-16
*79		26				*26		*58
*189

If we eliminate the two Rei before mago it will receive a new ordinal number, *79 instead of *81.

Ka5-13--15 constitute the 13th period (in the 2nd calendar):

Beyond Ka5-14 the table must be turned and next glyph is Kb1-1 - how very clear it becomes! Side a has *97 glyphs, but 2 of them are Rei glyphs. On side b there is only 1 Rei glyph. They are not to be counted in determining the middle of the text. Instead there are *95 glyhs on each side.

With Ka4-15 and *Kb2-15 at the equinoxes, the middle between them (*50 glyphs apart) must, however, be at the two glyphs Ka1-10--11:

	14			8			*25
Ka4-15		Ka5-14	Kb1-1		Kb1-10	Kb1-11		*Kb2-15
26						-	*26
*52

189 = 9 * 21. The year can be divided into 9 equal periods, each with 21 glyphs. And then we remember the number of mago (21), but we then counted long from the 2nd Rei, which must be wrong. Rei are glyphs which should not be counted.

Recalculating 21 from Ka3-16 (the niu glyph immediately after the 2nd Rei) we instead will reach to the beginning of summer:

		18
Ka3-15	Ka3-16		Ka4-14	Ka4-15
0	1		20	21

Ka4-15, however, is needed to reach 26 (weeks) to midsummer. But we must not mix the calculations. Defining midsummer in the middle between the equinoxes Ka4-15 stands at the beginning of the count. Defining the middle of the whole K text is another matter, were glyph number 95 arrives later - at Ka5-14. Number 21 was derived from the total text with *189 glyphs (excluding the Rei).

The calendar has its middle earlier than midsummer, reminding us about how midsummer not is located at July 1st. But our model is inverted in K -  the calendar middle comes first and midsummer later, maybe due to the location south of the equator.

When in Hawaii a new year began already in autumn (perhaps as Makemson has suggested due to the Pleiades), that had nothing to do with winter solstice - the calendar year began before the solstice. It is reasonable to find the same kind of structure in K.

If we count 21 from the 'humpback' the result becomes:

	19
*Kb2-16		Kb4-2
1		21

However, 21 was based on the whole text (*189 glyphs), and are there really a number of glyphs between Ka4-15 and *Kb2-16 which is divisible by 21?

The line Kb1 has *21 glyphs (not counting the Rei of course). Symmetrically around line Kb1 we have twice 15 (not 21). 15 probably alludes to full moon (here meaning 'full' sun).

189 - 15 - 15 - 21 (b1) - 21 (the beginning of the 2nd calendar) = 189 - 72 = 117, a number not divisible by 21. There must be further complications somewhen in winter. 72 = 6 * 12, presumably meaning half a year. *Kb2-16 seems to be initiating the next half year.

The 1st half year is 'kicked' into action by the 2nd Rei, winter by 'the humpback'.