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Once again, why is high summer not in the center between mago and 'humpback'?

 

7 see table of high summer below

*15

Ka4-15

Ka4-16

*Kb2-14

*Kb2-15

-

*42 *43

16 glyphs

10 *10

Ka5-8 Ka5-9 Kb1-6 Kb1-7 *Kb1-19 *Kb1-20
1 2 13 14 *25 *26
high summer = 13 weeks = 91 days = a quarter

*43 at *Kb2-15 surely must mean 'beyond the cycle'. Therefore there will be 16 glyphs (8 weeks = 56 days) between high summer and the following 'humpback season'. Similarly, beyond Ka4-15 up to high summer there will be 8 glyphs (4 weeks = 28 days). Inside the season marked by the two bent henua glyphs there may once have been (some glyphs are gone) 8 + 26 + 16 = 50 glyphs = 25 weeks = 175 days, not far from half a year.

If we are to extend the period to reach 180 days, we must add glyphs at left, I think. *43 is a clear message not go further at right.

Instead of 50 glyphs (25 weeks) we ought to have 52 glyphs (26 weeks) - giving 182 days for summer. One solution is to add the two glyphs preceding Ka4-16:

6

Ka4-14 Ka4-15

Ka4-15

Still, the half-year of summer has 'high summer' earlier than in the center:

 

8 see table of high summer above

*15

Ka4-14

Ka4-15

*Kb2-14

*Kb2-15

10 glyphs

*42 *43

16 glyphs

I think we should stop here (at least for the moment). I will now change the text in the first page of tara in the glyph dictionary. I only have to delete the line with 'spring equinox' and 'autumn equinox':

summer

Ka4-14

Ka4-15

*Kb2-15

*Kb2-16

spring equinox autumn equinox

Summer may include also Ka4-14--15, but I cannot change that part (in the glyph dictionary) without motivating it.