TRANSLATIONS
The unusual Aa6-63 seems to be a variant of vaha kai (eating mouth):
Vaha kai, in turn, presumably is a combination a simple ring form with viri:
I.e., Aa6-63 is half the sign in Ab4-51 and half (the lower part) the vaha kai sign. The simple ring is also seen at right in Aa8-75:
5 glyphs beyond the point where the time cycle is finished (Aa8-75) comes a vertical break (break in time) with a 2nd cycle being followed by a 1st cycle. This is the glyph before Aa8-81 from which we have to start counting in order to reach 1152 (= 8 * 144) at Aa6-67. A mouth (vaha) without viri probably also 'swallows'. The break glyph is Aa8-80 (8 * 80 = 640), and it resembles Ga4-20 (4 * 20 = 80) and Ga7-18:
104 (= 8 * 13) is counted from Gb8-30, while 187 (= 11 * 17) is counted from Ga1-1, I found 7-18 to be in harmony with 187. But 188 = 4 * 47 is also possible, of course. The 'eating mouth' (at the horizon in the west) devours all celestial bodies after one of their two cycles (day respectively night). I guess Aa6-77 has a hole in his belly to illustrate the same phenomenon, because to his right a reversed 'viri' (or rather rima auaue as I have labelled the glyph type) defines, it seems, the final limit:
6 * 78 = 468 = 300 + 168 = 13 * 36. 471 (Aa6-55) + 23 = 494 = 19 * 26. |