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The first of the mago glyphs in G is visually related to vaha mea at Te Pou - the internal mark in the head of mago in Ga2-14 is drawn as half that in Gb2-10 - and the first of the mago glyphs with open jaws (Ga7-16) is related to vaha mea in Ga1-4:

jaws closed open jaws
   
Ga2-14 Gb2-10 Ga1-4 Ga7-16
mago vaha mea vaha mea mago

I have classified Gb2-10 as vaha mea although there is no opening (vaha). Likewise mago in Ga2-14 does not show any open jaw.

The visual connections between Ga2-14 and Gb2-10 are possibly confirmed by counting. Because 2 * 14 = 28 (and 7 * 16 = 4 * 28) could mean we should count in multiples of 28, and by multiplying 8 * 28 we will reach 224:

220 98
Ga2-13 Ga2-14 (45) Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Gb5-12 (366)
224 = 8 * 28 100

Te Pou (Sirius) is located at 9 * 29.5 = 265.5, which in a way explains why we have to begin counting already at Ga2-13. Adding 100 to 224 we reach 324 = 9 * 36, a reasonable result for the end of the year.

The distance between the two glyphs with open jaws seems to be defined by the solar year:

180
Ga1-4 (5) Ga7-16 (186)
182

By adding 180 to 186 we will reach 366:

 
Ga7-16 (186) Gb5-12 (366)
180

An open jaw refers to the sun, and when the tail is bent and vaha mea changes into mago it is a sign that sun has passed midsummer. Maybe the curious form of haga rave at left in Gb5-12 alludes to sun being in the past.

When the jaw is closed the subject apparently is Sirius and the order may be the opposite: bent tail (mago) comes before vaha mea. Also, number 2 (a sign of the 2nd part of the year) is in a way generated by the fact that 9 * 29.5 = 265½ (two glyphs are needed); Sirius is visible only in the night.

If we keep the order vaha mea - mago also for Sirius, we could possibly explain the internal mark in the head of Ga2-14 as a way to express the concept of past time as related to Te Pou:

jaws closed
 
Gb2-10 Ga2-14
vaha mea mago

The distance with this order between the glyphs can be counted as 472 - 224 = 248 = 8 * 31.

224 will then describe the 'day' of the year and 248 (where 48 = 2 * 24) the 'night' of the year.

With the line inside the head in Ga2-14 meaning 'Sirius is in the past', the total absence of any such sign in Ga3-23 is understandable:

jaws closed
   
Gb2-10 Ga2-14 (45) Ga3-23 (83)
vaha mea mago mago

Indeed, we should read Ga3-23 as referring to the sun (and not only to Sirius):

102
Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga7-16 (186)
104 = 4 * 26

The tail in Ga3-23 is drawn to be like that in Ga7-16 and not as that in Ga2-14. Counting the distances between Te Pou and Ga3-23 we will find the longer to be 286 (= 248 + 38) and the shorter to be 186 (= 224 - 38), a way to underline the change from Sirius to sun.

Another way to count offers itself more directly:

182
Ga3-23 (83) Gb2-10 (266)

Here we find the distance from Gb2-10 up to and including Ga3-23 to be 472 - 182 = 290, which certainly can be interpreted as the length of the 'night' of the year. The 'day' of the year is beginning in the 6th period:

6
Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga3-24
Ka4-13 Ka4-14 Ka4-15

If we count from Gb8-30 to Gb5-12 following the sun, it cannot be wrong to observe Sirius appearing in autumn and to start a separate counting from that event.

When sun has reach his end we can countinue the counting which began with the apparance of Sirius. Of course the path of the sun will not be relevant for that part of the text. We have to jump from Gb5-12 to Gb8-30 and start anew with next year. It is another sun.

Evidently the text of G does not have to go hand in hand with the sun all the way.

180
Gb8-30 (1) Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga7-16 (186)
177 = 6 * 29.5
Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12 (366)

The right part of Ga1-1 can be read as vaha mea, it resembles the open jaw in Ga1-4.

The same sign can be read also in the open jaw of ika hiku in Ga7-12:

Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 (183) Ga7-14
Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20

With ordinal number 182 it is the last glyph of the first half of the year, given that we count each quarter as 91 = 13 weeks. Ika hiku in Ga7-12 and mago in Ga7-16 are quite similar in meaning, but the type of sun year is different.

From this follows that we also should compare pairwise the surrounding glyphs:

'fruit'
Ga7-11 Ga7-15
vaha
Ga7-12 Ga7-16
henua
Ga7-13 Ga7-17
maitaki
Ga7-14 Ga7-18

 If we count from Ga1-1 we will have ordinal number 82 at mago in Ga3-23:

6
Ga3-22 Ga3-23 (82) Ga3-24
Ka4-13 Ka4-14 (82) Ka4-15

This number of course can be combined with 100 in order to reach 182 (= 13 * 14). But haś should be glyph number 82:

98  
Gb2-11 Gb5-12 (366) Ga3-22 Ga3-23
100 82

Given that we should jump from Gb5-12 to the beginning of next sun year, we should conclude that Ga3-23 might mark the arrival of next spring sun. If we add 83 (at Ga3-23) with 182 we will arrive at 265, where Te Pou is beginning. Ga3-23 is used for coordinating sun and Sirius.

If we count to 365 from Gb2-11 and make a jump from Gb5-12 to Gb8-30, we will arrive once again at Te Pou:

98
Gb2-11 Gb5-12
100
80 182
Gb8-30 Ga1-1 Ga3-23 Te Pou
82 183

80 = 4 * 20 days come between the 'jaw' in Ga1-1 and the midpoint in the Sirius year, a number which agrees with the Mayan months at the beginning of the year:

1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz

But here the jaw is opening at the end of the period, not closing as in the G calendar. Counting five 20-day months backward in time (and disregarding Vayeb) we will arrive at 14 Kankin:

5 Tzek 6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol
9 Ch'en 10 Yax 11 Sac 12 Ceh
200
13 Mac 14 Kankin 15 Moan
16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu 19 Vayeb
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz

If we read the rising of Sirius at Te Pou as the sign of 'night' arriving, it is the same picture as in the Mayan calendar - bluemarked months shows the 'night'. The 'tree' in 14 Kankin has sun deep down at the 'root', just as in Te Pei. The moon stations are useful in the 'night'.

But moon is the opposite to the sun. Therefore, when we go south across the equator the map can be kept given that we change from sun to moon.