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Next 'chapter' in the glyph dictionary is tara:

 

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. At first sight tara may give the impression of a fish with an enormous gap, or maybe a whale swallowing plankton and breathing up at the surface, then to turn around going down again into the deep.

Humpback whales (Wikipedia)

The surface is then a location of reversal. The normal habitat is not up in the light but down in the dark.

When in the K calendar mago (as for example in Ka4-14) and 'humpback' (*Kb2-16) both resemble the tara glyph type in having a bent 'fish tail', it is because the meaning 'turning around' probably applies to all three glyph types:

summer

Ka4-14

Ka4-15

*Kb2-15

*Kb2-16
spring equinox autumn equinox

A nagging doubt continue to haunt me - is my description here true or are mago and 'humpback' instead calendrical constructs (corresponding maybe to out April 1 and October 1)? If so, then the midpoint is not summer solstice but 'July 1'.

The nearly straight arms in *Kb2-15 have been discussed earlier:

... The concept of mirrored legs determining a season give us reason to also consider the mirrored arms in the end glyphs 11 and 20:

11

20

Ka5-10

Kb2-110

32

33

*40

*73

Although the arms are nearly straight, the arm in Ka5-10 is slightly convex upwards and the arm in Kb2-110 slightly convex downwards. Up comes before down, both in arms and legs. Here we immediately can understand why the arms in the pair of glyphs have been designed as markers - 20 is the natural counting end (twice 10) while 11 is the beginning of the 2nd counting beyond 10 ...

Straight arms ought to be at the solstices rather than at the equinoxes, I think, because straight arms ought to mean 'no change' (rigidity).

Ka5-10 has lost his head, the 1st glyph in the headless group:

 

11
Ka5-8 Ka5-9 Ka5-10
12
Ka5-11 Ka5-12
13
Ka5-13 Ka5-14 Kb1-1

The lost 'head' reminds us about Ko Koró. These 8 glyphs could refer to the month when the ruler of the 1st half-year must loose his 'head'. In Ka5-8 and Ka5-11 en face also tells about 'noon', the season of 'changing sexes'. 6 of the glyphs (black-marked) show signs of 'extinguished'.

The straight arms in *Kb2-15 probably refer to summer - that's the season which is finished (maro) at autumn equinox, the sign seems to say.

There is one more end glyph without 'head', Kb1-6, and period 15 is by way of its ordinal number alluding to 'noon' (the 15th night of the moon is full):

 

14
Kb1-2 Kb1-3
15
Kb1-4 Kb1-5 Kb1-6
16
Kb1-7 Kb1-8 Kb1-9 Kb1-10 Kb1-11
Kb1-12 Kb1-13 Kb1-14
... ...
Kb1-15 Kb1-16 *Kb1-19
17
*Kb1-20 *Kb1-21 *Kb1-22

Period 17 and the notable henua in *Kb1-20 clearly refers to how darkness (mauga in *Kb1-21) now has arrived.

Counting glyphs from Ka5-9 (with the 'determinant glyph' preceding) to *Kb1-20 (with the 'determinant glyph' coming after) we have:

 

11 6 17
23
Ka5-8 Ka5-9 *Kb1-20 *Kb1-21
0 1 25 26

A beautiful harmony is indicated by the numbers. If we count to see what ordinal numbers Ka5-14 and the middle pair Kb1-10--11 will have in this structure, we get:

 

4 8 8
Ka5-8 Ka5-9 Ka5-14 Kb1-10 Kb1-11 *Kb1-20 *Kb1-21
0 1 6 15 16 25 26

Probably Rei in Kb1-11 is the 'determinant' of the hatchmarked henua in Kb1-10, which means the 'mirror' lies after period 11:

 

16
Kb1-7 Kb1-8 Kb1-9
Kb1-10 Kb1-11
Kb1-12 Kb1-13

Kb1-9 presumably is the 'determinant' of Kb1-8 (still en face), while Kb1-13 appears to be the 'determinant' of Kb1-12 (now looking ahead). This evidence points to period 16 as the season of reversal.

Of course summer solstice need not be located at Kb1-10--11, it is rather the glyphs which together indicate that high summer is over. At solstice sun stands still about 10 days, but if we count between Ka5-14 and Kb1-10 (8 glyphs) and translate this into time we get 8 / 2 = 4 weeks. On the other hand, 24 glyphs (12 weeks = 84 days) is a reasonable high summer season. 6 periods (between Ka5-9 and *Kb1-20) = 3 months and 3 * 28 = 84 days. And now we are talking calendar, not astronomy.

Neither Ka5-14 nor the pair Kb1-10--11 marks the midpoint of the high summer calendrical season, it seems. Ka5-14 is located earlier than the midpoint and Kb1-10--11 later. The midpoint instead is Kb1-7:

 

11 6 17
11 11
Ka5-8 Ka5-9 Kb1-7 *Kb1-20 *Kb1-21
0 1 13 25 26

The rising fish has reached a point of symmetry, it cannot rise any higher. I think we can assume Kb1-7 is marking summer solstice.

But if so, do I have to change what has been written in the glyph dictionary? What kind of summer is determined by mago and 'humpback'?