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13 + 14 + 15 = 42 (as in the ordinal numbers of the triplet following the 12-period solar year (the X-area):

The 'parallel' phase of the night calendar also indicates 42 as meaning close before the 'birth' of the new 'sun':

In Aa1-15 we saw a break between the left and right parts. The break in the night occurs between Aa1-42 and Aa1-43 because there are 12 'hours' in the night and an even number of glyphs cannot have a break in the middle - the middle is two glyphs. Could Aa1-42 be the end of the sequence of glyphs which are 'outside' the 200π?

If that is so, then the meaning of this sign could be that with Aa1-43 'life' (sun) is reborn, which could allude to side a being used for 'mapping' the 'solar life' (over the year). 10 glyphs beyond Aa1-42 we find Aa1-52:

52 = 364 / 7 and the old year will soon meet his end. The end between Aa1-42 and Aa1-43 was just a part of the introduction and more information follows here.

I have searched in The White Goddes for number 42 (which I remembered was mentioned somewhere in the book). At last I located the following:

"42 is the number of the children devoured by Elisha's she-bears. This is apparently an iconotropic myth derived from a sacred picture of the Libyo-Thraco-Pelasgian 'Brauronia' ritual. The two she-bears were girls dressed in yellow dresses who pretended to be bears and rushed savagely at the boys who attended the festival. The ritual was in honour of Artemis Callisto, the Moon as Bear-Goddess, and since a goat was sacrificed seems to belong to the Midsummer festivities. 42 is the number of days from the beginning of the H month, which is the preparation for the midsummer marriage and death-orgy, to Midsummer Day.

42 is also the number of infernal jurymen who judged Osiris the days between his midsummer death and the end of the T month, when he reached Calypso's isle, though this is obscured in the priestly Book of the Dead.

According to Clement of Alexandria there were forty-two books of Hermetic mysteries." (The White Goddess)

The subject matter is 'death', but the time is midsummer (not midwinter). Maybe south of the equator they kept the location measured in 'global time'?

We should observe that there were two 42: '... the number of days from the beginning of the H month ...' and '... the number of ... days between his midsummer death and the end of the T month ...' We have already arrived at the conclusion that there must be 2 * 42 = 84 = 6 * 14 days in addition to those 20 * 14 = 280 days which sun dominates.

We must reconsider the role of Aa1-12.This fat GD45 probably tells us that the solar year ends. A big glyph means a big event. But presumably Aa1-12 is part of an introduction to side a. Therefore we should not count Aa1-12 among those 26 which constitute the year.

The consequence is that one GD45 is missing. I guess that we therefore should include the midpoint glyph Aa6-55 in our scheme: