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The viri glyphs in P are arranged in a pattern:

Pb9-21 Pb9-22 Pb9-23
1 2 3
Pb9-24 Pb9-25 Pb9-26 Pb9-27 Pb9-28
4 5 6 7 8
Pb9-29 Pb9-30 Pb9-31 Pb9-32 Pb9-33
9 10 11 12 13

Pb9-21 is thicker than the other two viri glyphs. Counted from the beginning of the P text it has ordinal number 1013, i.e. Pb9-21 is located 5 * 29 = 145 glyphs before the end of the text. The distance beyond the lively pare is 29 * (36 - 5) = 899 glyphs:

114 897 145 = 5 * 29
Pa3-3 Pa3-4 Pb9-21
115 116 1013
899 = 31 * 29
1044 = 36 * 29
116 = 4 * 29

1158 = 40 * 29 - 2. The difference betweeb 4 * 29 (116) and 5 * 29 (145) at the beginning respectively end of the text makes us count 29 beyond Pb9-21:

28
Pb9-21 Pb9-50 Pb10-1
0 29 1

4 * 29 is the sum of the glyphs in lines b10-b11 (56 + 60 = 116).

40 * 29 - 2 can be reduced by twice 4 * 29 (at the beginning respectively end of the text), then reduced by yet another 29 for Pb9-22--50. In other words, we can take away 261 (9 * 29) and reach a central 897 glyphs.

897 = 3 * 299 = 3 * 13 * 23 (a beautiful sequence with each number ending with 3).

Some sort of order has been reached. It is time to look at the last page of viri in the glyph dictionary:

 
The viri glyph type is correlated with number 29, which refers to the 29th night of the moon, when she no longer is visible after having shone for 28 nights. Viri is also correlated with major cardinal points, especially with winter solstice and the 'navel' (pito) - presumably because those are dark times.
 
With viri glyphs defining the 'border lines' in the rongorongo texts, where one season terminates and the next begins, they are very important for translating the texts.
 
The word viri has a fundamental meaning of 'going around' and when a cycle is finished it can be expressed by a viri glyph. A rongorongo text often has more than one viri glyph because it contains more than one cycle, e.g. one for each half year.
 
The total number of glyphs in a text may be expressed by multiples of 29, for instance in Tahua where the 1334 glyphs can be expressed as 46 * 29 (divided in sections by 4 viri glyphs):
 
59 520
Aa8-26 Ab1-1 Ab7-26
- 580 = 20 * 29 -
752
Ab7-26 Aa8-26
754 = 26 * 29
 
In G viri glyphs with added signs (Ga1-26 and Gb1-6) are used in a similar pattern:
 
94 48
Ga1-26 Ga5-11 Ga7-1
145 = 5 * 29
261 = 9 * 29
Gb1-6 Ga1-26
Excursion:

An attempt to use the knowledge gained in order to define the meanings of three viri glyphs in the text of Large St Petersburg Tablet (P).

145 = 5 * 29 occurs both beyond Pb9-21 and as the number of glyphs in Ga1-26--Ga7-1.

I think it is necessary to document in the glyph dictionary at least some of the discoveries in the P text, for instance the reoccurrence of 261.

With the Maya tzolkin of 20 * 13 = 260 days as a fundamental unit only 1 needs to be added to reach 9 * 29 = 261. Number 261 is therefore similar to zero, a dark time.

39 * 19 = 741 is the distance between the ghostly and the lively pare glyphs (with te pito included):

246 246 247 = 13 * 19 415
Pa10-1 Pb5-23 Pb9-33 Pa3-3
531 778 1025 115
247 = 13 * 19 247 = 13 * 19 0 416 = 16 * 26

39 * 19 is similar to 29 * 9 (both expressions having terms ending with 9 and both expressions with 20 as the difference between the two terms), and both numbers (741 respectively 261) are used outside the pare domain.

741 - 261 = 480 = 20 * 24.

The pare domain is expressed by the numbers 16 * 26 = 416, numbers ending with 6. In the season of light we have 6, in the dark we have the upside down sign (9). 16 is associated with the 16th night of the moon, the last of the growing (living) phase, while 26 is the corresponding number for the sun.

16 * 26 + 19 * 39 = 1157. One more glyph is needed to reach 1158. It is te pito (Pb9-33).