The vaha kai glyphs apparently describe orifices located at cardinal points in time. For instance is Yb3-2 located at what seems to be a point of 'birth', while the oppositely oriended vaha kai in Gb5-10 instead illustrates the end: 18 15 3 *Ya3-5 *Ya3-6 *Ya3-7 *Yb3-1 *Yb3-2 *Yb3-3 36 6 Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16 This left-right assymmetry (with left = 'death' and right = 'birth') can alternatively be an assymmetry down-up (with down = 'death' and up = 'birth): *Ha7-35 *Ha7-36 *Ha7-37 *Ha7-38 *Ha7-39 *Ha7-40 *Qa7-15 *Qa7-16 *Qa7-17 *Qa7-18 *Qa7-19 *Qa7-20 The assymmetric sign of undulation could allude to the form of a mouth, in which case we can imagine the head being turned upside down in *Ha7-35. Upside down means 'death' and in H the end of the old season evidently is described. But in the parallel Q text the signs are 'looking ahead', which is natural if we read its vaha kai glyph as a sign of 'birth'. When one season 'dies' it gives room for another to be'born' (hanau). However, it should be noted that the two text sequences quoted could refer to different times. 7 * 40 (in *Ha7-20) is twice as much as 7 * 20 (in Qa7-20).

Counting in Q we have 'ascertained' that the number of glyphs must be divided by 2 in order to reach the number of days.

387 + 349 = 736 and half that is 368:

*Qb5-35	*Qb5-36 (610)
369 = 610 / 2 + 64 = 305 + 64
day 1 (= 369 - 368)

Qa7-16 is glyph number 270 counted from Qa1-1. 270 / 2 = 135 and 135 + 63 = 198. Day number 200 is at Qa7-20. If we have day number 368 ending with Qb5-34 (608), then there are (608 - 270) / 2 = 169 days to the end of the year.

369 - 169 = 200. This is the day when the 2nd part of the cycle (of 400 days) will begin.

69 seems to illustrate how Sun is once again restored to a position at the top. 9 will then become the sign of how Sun moves downwards from winter solstice to the end of high summer, at which point in time the journey suddenly breaks off. Next the upside down figure (6) illustrates how Moon is born down there and how her journey is the mirror image of the path of the Sun.

This is the day when we have counted 200 marks of time - i.e. one more than 199. Which number denotes the last day of 200. Because day number 1 denotes when one dark day, not earlier counted, is ready to be counted - when the day of zero has been finished, when light dawns, when it is day number 1.

Counting 2 glyphs per day possibly means Qa7-15 is the last sign of the old half cycle (cfr Qb5-35 at left and Qb5-36 at right of the break).