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A sense of urgency makes me investigate all nooks and crannies - it feels as if it is now or never. On the other hand we must move on. Next page in the chain of pages from 'Excursion':

Counting backwards from the end of the text, we discover the unusual glyph type pare as the first glyph of line Pa10. It is number 628 (200π) counted from the end of the text. Another pare (Pa3-3) is located 16 * 26 = 416 glyphs earlier:
 
415 627
Pa3-3 Pa10-1
115 531
416 = 16 * 26 628 = 200π

We recognize the two 'fists' in Pa3-3 from earlier experiences, e.g. in Sb2-8. They are like early spring 'buds' (which later will develop into 'flowery fingers of light'):

Sb2-6 Sb2-7 Sb2-8

Pa10-1 is a weak sun sign compared to Pa3-3. It has a ghostly quality because it presumably initiates autumn. 16 * 26 - the distance from the 'spring pare' to the 'fall pare' - alludes to the last night of growing moon (16) and to the corresponding number of the sun (26). The meaning is in plain sight: the 416 glyphs from the first pare to the second describe summer, the season of light.

The two 'fists' possibly recur in the first glyphs in the day calendars:

Aa1-16 Ha5-49 Pa5-32 Qa5-40

In Aa1-16 there are 'flowery fingers of light', as in the 12th kuhane station Roto Iri Are - 'rosy fingers' (of seaweed) on the surface of the sea - immediately before summer. The other three texts have quite other allusions - 'dead' Y-branches instead. In H/P/Q early morning comes after the night calendar, while in A the night calendar comes after the day calendar.

The two 'fists' could refer to the two half-years (or in general the wished for pairs of seasons). In Ga5-11 and Ga7-1 a pair of viri glyphs may signify the 2nd half-year (or in general the 2nd of a pair of seasons):

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

In K too 3 viri appear in the pattern 1 + 2 (1 on side a and 2 on side b):

Ka2-5

Kb1-14

Kb4-6

The two pare in P have the opposite pairing: 2 + 1 = 3 'fists':

Pa3-3 Pa10-1

While pare has the quality of 'eyes' viri has the quality of absence of 'eyes'. In P too the 3 viri appear in the pattern 1 + 2 (1 fat followed by 2 of normal thickness):

Pb9-21 Pb9-24 Pb9-29

It is therefore quite in order to see the same phenomenon also in S:

Sa1-214 Sa1-215 Sa1-216 Sa1-217 Sa1-218 Sa1-219 Sa1-220 Sa1-221
*Sa1-18 *Sa1-19 *Sa1-20 *Sa1-21 *Sa1-22 *Sa1-23 *Sa1-24 *Sa1-25
Sa1-222 Sa1-223 Sa1-224 Sa1-225 Sa1-226
*Sa1-26 *Sa1-27 *Sa1-28 *Sa1-29 *Sa1-30
Sa1-227 Sa1-228 Sa1-229 Sa1-230 Sa1-231 Sa1-232
*Sa1-31 *Sa1-32 *Sa1-33 *Sa1-34 *Sa1-35 *Sa1-36

Possibly we see two 'fists' in Sa1-219 and one only in Sa1-226. In Sa1-223 the upper 'fist' in Sa1-219 maybe is leaving, leaving behind the lower one in Sa1-226. Wing down in Sa1-223 is a wing up in Sa1-226.

In Sa1-225 summer could be at the top with winter at bottom. Its ordinal number (29) indicates how the old 'light' has been extinguished and the new one (top) has arrived. If so, then the top end is not the summer but the whole new year, divided into a pair of half-years.

In Sa1-224 we can see the immediately preceding phase: The new year is not yet there - instead night rules, and at the bottom end the old fire is extinguished. In Sa1-225, therefore, the old year at bottom has been revived - it is at the base of the new life, living on in a new generation. The nut gives life.

In Sa1-222 the head of the old cock is drawn as if to allude to a gagana glyph where one of the 'eyes' has burst open:

*Sa1-26 Ga1-18 Gb7-18 Gb8-7 Sa1-225 Sa1-226

In Ga1-18 it is still intact, in Gb7-18 the bottom end seems to be procreative, while in Gb8-7 the 'fruit' emerges from the top end. Gb8-7 furthermore seems to illustrate how the old 'nut' lives on at the bottom of the new life (top) - as imagined in Sa1-225. The glyph is complex, though, because from the 'fruit' emerges a sky without any light, it seems.