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It is of central importance to be in the middle. The central 20 glyphs on side a of H are therefore worth listing again:

Ha6-120 Ha6-121 Ha6-122 Ha6-123 Ha6-124 Ha6-125 Ha6-126
*Ha6-45 *Ha6-46 *Ha6-47 *Ha6-48 *Ha6-49 *Ha6-50 *Ha6-51
*320 *321 *322 *323 *324 *325 *326
Ha6-127 Ha6-128 Ha6-129 Ha6-130 Ha6-131 Ha6-132 Ha6-133 Ha6-134
*Ha6-52 *Ha6-53 *Ha6-54 *Ha6-55 *Ha6-56 *Ha6-57 *Ha6-58 *Ha6-59
*327 *328 *329 *330 *331 *332 *333 *334
Ha6-135 Ha6-136 Ha6-137 Ha6-138 Ha6-139
*Ha6-60 *Ha6-61 *Ha6-62 *Ha6-63 *Ha6-64
*335 *336 *337 *338 *339

If we have use for the appellation 'cosmic number', then we also ought to have use for 'cosmic glyphs '- Ha6-125 and Ha6-135 (redmarked) could be examples.

What should we read in these 20 glyphs? Maybe we should compare with the central 20 on the opposite side? They are located from Hb7-7 up to and including Hb7-26:

b1-1 -- b1-126 48 (?) 64

314 (?)

b1-127 -- b2-13 16
b2-14 -- b7-6 250
b7-7-- b7-26 Q has ended, P continues.

20

b7-27-- b10-49 193 (?)

314 (?)

b10-50-- b12-49 Also P has ended. 121 (?)

The logic seems to be that where the Q text ends, we must have a break point also in the flow of glyphs in H and P. Can we get support from the glyphs? No, at least not immediately. Because behind the table above was another kind of reasoning:

H and P continued (without Q) like this:

Hb6-33 Hb6-34 Hb6-35 Hb6-36 Hb6-37 Hb6-38
Pb8-12 Pb8-13 Pb8-14 Pb8-15 Pb8-16 Pb8-17 Pb8-18 Pb8-19 Pb8-20

Immediately before these glyphs we have the end of a long calendar (studied at level 5):

At the end of Small St Petersburg Tablet (Q) we find a long sequence of glyphs which contains six variants of the six-ball glyph of Matariki (6 * 6 = 36). In some places the glyphs in this sequence is partly or totally obliterated, but the parallel texts of Large Santiago Tablet (H) and Large St Petersburg Tablet (P) then allow us to get a picture of the total text.

The structure of this sequence of glyphs (in H / P / Q) I have tried to make clear by dividing the text into three parts :

1b - 6b six similar sequences of glyphs where sun, Matariki and other types of glyphs are repeatedly mentioned
1c - 6c six similar sequences of glyphs where sun, darkness and other types of glyphs are repeatedly mentioned
1a - 6a six different sequences of glyphs which lie immediately before the two types of sequences above

In the tables for 1b - 6b and 1c - 6c which now will follow I have not been able to put all similar types of glyphs in the same vertical columns, because the text sometimes moves similar types of glyphs to different locations. But for the glyphs for sun and Matariki I have strictly ordered columns.

1a - 6a follows at a later stage because these sequences are different from each other, rather long and also complex.

The presumed break in the texts of H and P, because Q ends, therefore are located at Hb6-33 (respectively at Pb8-12), not at Hb7-7.

At Hb7-7, though, there is - supposedly - a break because of an external parallel sequence of glyphs involving Small Washington Tablet:

Rb8-8 Rb8-9 Rb8-10 Rb8-11 Rb8-12 Rb8-13 Rb8-14
Hb7-7 Hb7-8 Hb7-9 Hb7-10 Hb7-11 Hb7-12 Hb7-13
- -
Pb8-42 Pb8-43 Pb8-44 Pb8-45 Pb8-46

 In R the immediately preceding glyphs indeed indicate a kind of break:

Rb8-2 Rb8-3 Rb8-4 Rb8-5 Rb8-6 Rb8-7

The double-headed GD58 (manu kake) birds may stand at cardinal points (of some kind). We remember for instance new year in Keiti:

Eb5-29 Eb5-30 Eb5-31 Eb5-32 Eb5-33 Eb5-34 Eb5-35 Eb6-1 Eb6-2

So, then, we may guess that the 20 glyphs Hb7-7--26 (nice 'cosmic' numbers: 7, 7 and 26) are central and flanked by 314 glyphs on each side. To be cautious, though, we should look at the glyphs immediately preceding Hb7-7:

Hb6-52 (notice 6 and 52) is the 20th glyph counted from Hb6-33, Hb7-6 is the 28th. Hb6-52 is looking backwards and Hb7-6 may be some kind of henua (cfr Hb6-39 and Hb6-47).
Hb6-33 Hb6-34 Hb6-35
Hb6-36 Hb6-37 Hb6-38 Hb6-39 Hb6-40 Hb6-41 Hb6-42
Hb6-43 Hb6-44 Hb6-45 Hb6-46 Hb6-47 Hb6-48 Hb6-49
Hb6-50 Hb6-51 Hb6-52 Hb6-53 Hb6-54
Hb7-1 Hb7-2 Hb7-3 Hb7-4 Hb7-5 Hb7-6

OK, there is nothing in the glyphs Hb6-33--Hb7-6 which suggest they continue beyond Hb7-6. Let us therefore list the 20 central glyphs:

Hb7-7 Hb7-8 Hb7-9 Hb7-10 Hb7-11 Hb7-12 Hb7-13
Hb7-14 Hb7-15 Hb7-16 Hb7-17 Hb7-18 Hb7-19
Hb7-20 Hb7-21 Hb7-22 Hb7-23 Hb7-24 Hb7-25 Hb7-26

 It is not easy to find something in common with the 20 central glyphs on side a:

Ha6-120 Ha6-121 Ha6-122 Ha6-123 Ha6-124
Ha6-125 Ha6-126 Ha6-127 Ha6-128 Ha6-129
Ha6-130 Ha6-131 Ha6-132 Ha6-133 Ha6-134
Ha6-135 Ha6-136 Ha6-137 Ha6-138 Ha6-139

Looking ahead, beyond the 20 central glyphs on side b, we have:

Hb7-27 Hb7-28 Hb7-29 Hb7-30 Hb7-31
Hb7-32 Hb7-33 Hb7-34 Hb7-35 Hb7-36 Hb7-37 Hb7-38
Hb7-39 Hb7-40 Hb7-41 Hb7-42

Nothing suggests that the 20 central glyphs should continue beyond Hb7-26. Both the signs of maro and number 26 imply 'end'.

To complete the investigation of Hb7-7 -- 16 we must certainly also mention another external parallel, this time with Aruku Kurenga:

Hb7-14 Hb7-15 Hb7-16
Bb12-40 Bb12-41 Bb12-42 Bb12-43
Pb8-47 Pb8-48 Pb8-49 Pb8-50 Pb8-51 Pb8-52 Pb8-53
Hb7-17 Hb7-18 Hb7-19
The text on side Bb ends here.
Bb12-44 Bb12-45
Pb8-54 Pb8-55 Pb8-56