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Once again, the end comes with Saturn. Therefore we should find him twice in a calendar for the year, because as when a fortnight has two weeks (and two Saturdays) so a year has two halves.

26 as ordinal number in a glyph line indicates the sun. 25 should therefore be Saturn - the square of fire which is needed. But 26 will then not be the last station of the ruling sun king but the first of sun, a newly 'hatched' fire.

We should remember the 'parallel' number 16 for the moon in Ga8-16:

Ga8-16 (220) Ga8-17 Ga8-18 Ga8-19 Ga8-20 Ga8-21 Ga8-22
Ga8-23 Ga8-24 Ga8-25 (229) Ga8-26

In Ga8-25 a blackened henua agrees with the position of Saturn. Ga8-24 is a hanau glyph, appropriate for Venus. Ga8-16 is at Thursday, likewise haś in Ga8-23.

Sun will - according to this measure of the week - have 26, 19, 12, and day 5. Jupiter will have 23, 16, 9, and day 2.

Let us concentrate, for a moment, on day 26. Rogo at Gb6-26 must be either day number 1 or day number zero, if Saturn has the final.

Ga8-26 seems to be at day zero, maybe because all 26 'fingers' have run out.

10 * 26 = 260 could be the result of discarding all the black Saturdays. 6 / 7 * (64 + 230) = 257.14.

8 * 26 = 16 * 13 and 6 * 26 = 12 * 13:

Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28
Saturn Sun Moon Mars
Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4
Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn

Number 2 is secured for Jupiter, as I predicted!

Saturn has both beginning and end in an 8-fold sequence.

Sun becomes associated with Jupiter and Moon with Venus:

Ga1-18 Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21
Saturn Sun Moon Mars
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25
Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn

In a quarter there should be 91 days in order to be able to count to 13 weeks, but that will shift the ruler 1 position forward:

63 25
Gb6-26 (Sun) Ga1-25 Ga1-26 (Moon)
90 91

In order to maintain Saturn at Ga1-25 (the square of 5) and Sun at Ga1-26 there must be 91 days from Gb6-26 to Ga1-26. But we have counted Gb8-30 twice already.

Saturn should be at Gb8-30. If so, then Gb6-26 must be at Venus, a solution which is supported by H:

62
Gb6-26 (409) Gb8-30 (472)
Venus Saturn
64 = 7 * 9 + 1

Sun will appropriately be at the first glyph on the front side, in which case gagana should be ruled by Jupiter:

16
Ga1-1 Ga1-18
Sun Jupiter
18 = 7 * 2 + 4

But that cannot be so, because Jupiter should have day number 16, in which case Ga1-18 must be Saturn (which I have suggested in the glyph dictionary).

Maybe the 4 first glyphs on side a are special:

4 special days
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4
Ga1-5 Ga1-6 Ga1-7 Ga1-8 Ga1-9 Ga1-10 Ga1-11
Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn
Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14 Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17 Ga1-18
Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn
Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25
Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn