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Next page in the glyph dictionary then returns to questions related to numbers of glyphs distributed over periods, now in the K calendar:

Next logical step is to return to the K calendar and try to extend it in parallel with the G calendar:
K calendar
period no. number of glyphs
1, 2, 3 14 14
4, 5, 6 8 22
7, 8, 9 6 28
10, 11, 12 7 35
13, 14, 15 8 43
16 *13 *56
17, 18, 19, 20, 21 3 +  6 + 4 + 4 + 3 = 20 30 *86
22, 23, 24 6 + 2 + 2 = 10
25, 26 3 + 3 = 6 28 *114
27, 28, 29 5 + 4 + 5 = 14
30, '31' 4 + 4 = 8

114 = 28 + 28 + 30 + 28. We can then add 3 glyphs for a period '0' (parallel to Ga2-24--26) and 3 glyphs for a period '32' (parallel to Ga7-18--20). The resulting total 120 glyphs will then be more meaningful than 114.

3 * 28 = 84. Beyond autumn equinox sun is absent and the number of glyphs is 30 (not 28). 30 includes the dark nights in the month (as if to tell that sun has left).

The dark time (with 30 glyphs) extends from period 17 up to and including period 24 (8 periods).

6 glyphs at the end (period '32') and at the beginning (period '0') is in a way extracalendrical (i.e. also 'dark'), bringing the total number of 'dark' glyphs up to 36.

This thought-provoking page needs support from the messages encoded in the glyphs. I therefore intend to investigate that side of the problem here, both for K and G as regards the dark 'year'. (We have already done that for the light 'year.)

Why are the groups of periods no longer following the simple pattern imagined with 3 periods in each group?

Maybe the 2 imagined groups (based on the principle of adding odd number glyph periods) with together 30 dark glyphs (periods 17-24) are to be regarded as a single group - in darkness structure can no longer be observed.

Should we not include periods '0' and '32' in the table?

We begin the investigation by looking at the glyphs in K to see which periods the glyphs suggest belong together. It probably will complicate matters if we at the same time and in parallel look at also the glyphs in G.

17
Kb1-102 Kb1-103 Kb1-104
*Kb1-20 *Kb1-21 *Kb1-22

No vero glyph (similar to the one in the parallel period 19 of G) is included. The only probable vero glyphs in K (which I after a quick look have been able to find) are located at the beginning of the text:

Ka1-1 Ka1-2 Ka1-3 Ka1-4 Ka1-5 Ka1-6

We can compare Ka1-1--2 with Kb1-103. The similarities ought to mean similar things.

The glyph type in Kb1-103 is mauga (GD28), and the main meaning of mauga definitely is 'darkness' - that was established very early in connection with the calendars of the week in H and P, for instance in Friday (the day of Venus):

Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50

The 'spectral' quality observed in Ka1-1--4 can be contrasted with the very distinctly drawn and prominent henua in Kb1-102. The prominent season which 'enters the shade' probably is the light 'year'.

A sharp eye will discover how henua in Kb1-102 is slightly uplifted from the line of glyphs. If this sign was intentionally added by the writer, it suggests the uplifted state we have seen earlier:

... Kb4-10 has a design which looks closer to that in Aa8-85:

Kb4-10

Aa8-85

Kb4-18

There are 3 'passengers' in Kb4-10 and the 'canoe' is like waning moon. The numbers give help: 10 means (I guess) finished, i.e. the period with 3 subperiods is 'moving away'. 18 presumably marks the end of the solar year and the 2 'sails' means that both half-years are 'on board'. The Kb4-18 canoe is high up in the glyph line, a way to tell us that we have reached the top of the solar year. The summit (sun-mit) is balancing between waning and waxing and therefore the outline of the canoe is symmetric and seen as if from below.

In Ka1-1--4 the uplifted state appears to have gone one step further - as if loosing sight of the ground altogether. The spectres move away from us once a year. Hiva is beyond our sight.

Kb1-104 makes me think. Up to now I have regarded the uplifted legs at the beginning and end of the 2nd quarter according to the E calendar as an image of how the 'spring snake' lifts up the sky roof to let in the light:

7 12
Eb3-25 Eb4-12

A closer look reveals a significant difference between Kb1-104 and the two glyphs in E: the arms are straight, not showing any elbow. If we concentrate on the 'end glyphs' in the K calendar we can observe this sign closer:

1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 '30'

I have red-marked notable glyphs (from the perspective of abnormal arms). The normal arms show a sharp elbow downwards. Period 13 is red-marked due to how the 'arm' is drawn as a separate item from the rest.

The end glyphs in periods 25, 28-29 have slightly bent arms without any prominent elbows, while the arms in the end glyphs of periods 11 and 20 are nearly straight. Presumably there is something which unites the meanings, on one hand in the group of end glyphs with slightly bent arms without any prominent elbows and on the other hand in the group with nearly straight arms.

The end glyphs in periods 15, 17 and 23 are special, each one with its own characteristics. In 15 it looks as if the thick straight arm is cut off at the elbow, which only partially touches the ground (henua). In 23 the form of the arm tends towards an S, with the elbow close to the ground. In 17 the thin arm, it looks, is the forearm, while the elbow is high up close to the body. Maybe the picture in Kb1-104 is meant to show a person tipping forward, falling on his face (vero).

Presumably the end glyph in period 23 is meant to be read together with Kb1-104. Kb1-104 has a 'knee' bent upwards, while the leg in Kb2-8 is oppositely oriented:

17 23
Kb1-104 Kb3-8
*58 *59 *25 *84

Kb1-104 is the 59th  (as reconstructed by me) glyph of the calendar, as if it was the last night of a synodic double-month, while Kb3-8 is the 84th glyph, also a number we recognize and - hopefully - will soon understand better.

The mirrored legs in the pair Kb1-104 and Kb3-8 (6 periods apart) presumably indicate beginning and end of a major season (autumn?). With Kb1-101 (at the end of period 13) in memory, the season in question probably begins with Kb1-105 in period 18. If so, then the measure of the season perhaps is 24 (instead of 25) glyphs. On the other hand, Kb3-8 is the 26th glyph beyond Kb1-104.

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.

Next period has a problem: Is there a glyph missing between Kb2-4 and Kb2-101?

18 ... -
Kb2-1 Kb2-2 Kb2-3 Kb2-4 Kb2-101 Kb2-102
20 -
Ga5-22 Ga5-23 Ga5-24 Ga5-25 Ga5-26 Ga5-27 Ga5-28 Ga5-29

Unless Kb2-101 once extended much to the left of what now remains of the glyph, the answer should be yes, according to how Barthel has copied the sequence of glyphs:

We can even guess that the missing glyph was of the type maitaki (GD53), because of for instance Eb4-10, Ca14-215 and Sa5-407.

Period 18, beginning at the beginning of a new line (b2), consequently once, presumably, had 7 glyphs and we therefore must revise our table:

Next logical step is to return to the K calendar and try to extend it in parallel with the G calendar. By way of the number of glyphs in each period it is possible to imagine the following structure:
K calendar
period no. number of glyphs
1, 2, 3 14 14
4, 5, 6 8 22
7, 8, 9 6 28
10, 11, 12 7 35
13, 14, 15 8 43
16 *13 *56
17 3 *29 *85
18, 19, 20 *7 + 4 + 4 = *15
21, 22, 23 3 + 6 + 2 = 11
24, 25, 26 2 + 3 + 3 = 8 30 *115
27, 28, 29 5 + 4 + 5 = 14
30, 31 4 + 4 = 8
32, 0 3 + 3 = 6 6 *121

Beyond autumn equinox sun is absent and the number of glyphs should no longer be 28 for a group of periods. Instead, the season can be expressed by way of 29 glyphs. 29 symbolizes the 29th dark moonless night which follows the 28 nights when moon is at least potentially visible. Likewise, the darkness following autumn equinox resembles a moonless night - it is a 'sunless night'.

'Waning moon' (to change metaphor) is the time when the power of the moon subsides, which implies that the power of the sun must increase to compensate for the loss. The concept can be expressed by way of counting 30 + 6 = 36 over a group of 10 periods (24-0).

The imagined structure has 7 periods for the moon (17-23) and 16 (1-16) + 10 = 26 periods for the sun. There are 3 groups of periods for the moon and 6 + 4 = 10 for the sun.

The 17th period is the first of the moon periods, while the 16th (or rather 26th) is the last of the sun's. The last sun period is single (not belonging in a group with other periods) and as if in a mirror the first moon period is also single.

121 is not a random number, it can be explained as 4 times 10 + 4 times 13 + 29. The sum of 10 and 13 equals the number 23 of the last 'black' period in the calendar. There are 13 * 28 = 364 days in a lunar calendar for the year, and 10 was the old traditional number of months in Polynesia. The number of glyphs in period 16 (i.e. the 26th and last sun period) has been reconstructed as 13.

The reconstructed number of glyphs in period 18 is odd (*7), which forces changes in the way the periods are grouped. Furthermore, the logic established earlier in grouping periods together ought to be expressed throughout the calendar. Harmony should rule.

I will not, however, change anything in the original table until we have systematically covered the ground all around the year cycle of the calendar. Support from reading the glyphs is urgently needed.