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Is there in G a pattern with viri on one side and Rei on the other? In K there is such a pattern, one can imagine:

Ka2-10

Ka3-15

Kb1-11

1

28

75

Kb1-14

Kb4-6

Ka2-5

3

51

29

With so few glyphs, however, the pattern may be totally in our imagination. And in P all three viri glyphs are close together and it is therefore improbable to find a Rei glyph among them.

G and K are texts which initially were found to be in parallel. On closer inspection doubt has arrived - the resemblances are there but with important differences. The parallels are superficial. And there are many more glyphs in G than in K, arriving after the text of K has ended. We therefore first ought to investigate that part of the text in G which has a parallel in K.

All true (without obvious extra signs) Rei in G are on side a:

Ga1-26 Ga1-30 Ga2-27 Ga4-17 Ga5-6
26 30 57 100 116
Ga5-11 Ga7-1 Ga7-22 Ga7-31 Ga8-1
121 170 191 200 204

The play in the viri glyphs between the ordinal number in the glyph line and the ordinal number from the beginning of the text is not present at Ga1-26, because a1 is the first glyph line, but in Ga5-11 number 121 = 11 * 11 may be something more than a coincidence. In Ga7-1 a kind of confirmation is given by 170, where we can neglect zero and find the reverse of 7-1.

Ga8-1 is beyond the end of the K text. Disregarding that glyph the pattern is 1 (viri) + 4 (Rei) + 2 (viri) + 2 Rei, 9 in all.

The 4th glyph (Ga4-17) has ordinal number 100 and the 8th (Ga7-31) ordinal number 200 - presumably no coincidence - maybe to be read as 4 followed by 5 - we remember 116 respectively 145 as 4 * 29 respectively 5 * 29 (and Ga5-6 has ordinal number 116).

If there is some kind of relationship between viri and Rei in that part of the G text which is parallel with K the pattern certainly is different from that we have imagined in K. Rei and viri do mix in G. On side b of G there are no Rei glyphs (not even in combinations with other glyph types). Side b appears to be in the dark. Yet we have seen an inverted viri:

261 = 9 * 29
Gb1-6 Ga1-26

The inversion observed between Pa6-29 and Ga1-18 (notice the ordinal numbers), ought to induce us to examine also other gagana glyphs (because of the similar inversion between Gb1-5 and Ga1-26):

Pa6-29 Ga1-18

There are 8 gagana glyphs in G and they easily are grouped into 4 pairs:

Gb2-14 Gb2-21 Gb6-14 Gb6-16 Gb7-18 Gb8-7 Ga1-11 Ga1-18
269 276 396 398 428 448 11 18
prime 12 * 23 4 * 99 2 * 199 4 * 107 16 * 28 prime 2 * 9

Possibly Gb6-14 and Gb6-16 refer to Venus, while Gb7-18, Gb8-7 and Ga1-18 may refer to the moon. The eyes in the supposed Venus glyphs are black, not white as in the other glyphs. We should remember the Maya way of picturing Venus: ... Saturn has a glyph which at first glance looks like that of Venus, however, its colours are reversed: white pupils against a black background ...