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The long detour around the world of the G text was originally intended to be just a brief overview, a reminder to have in the background when searching for the global structure of the text in H. But it became much more, and I think it is necessary to return again to it in an excursion at the end of mago in the dictionary.

We have lost the thread because of the long detour. I for one therefore decided to read about mago from its beginning in the dictionary. When reading about the calendar of the week I suddenly realized what glyph number 8 might depict:

Sunday Monday-Wednesday Thursday-Saturday
Mars and Venus
Mercury and Saturn

The curious 'knee' at right in vaha kai might be due to an optical effect: Imagine the glyph has sunk halfway down into the water and only the upper part together with its reflection in the water surface can be seen.

The same kind of glyph joke is more easily detected in Ba7-12:

The object creating this illusion could be a haś without feathers, e.g. as in Ta8-108:

Ta8-104 Ta8-105 Ta8-106 Ta8-107 Ta8-108 Ta8-109 Ta8-110

Another is I13-126:

...
I13-101
I13-102 I13-103
I13-104 I13-105 I13-106
I13-107 I13-108 I13-109
I13-110 I13-111 I13-112
I13-113 I13-114 I13-115
I13-116 I13-119 I13-118
I13-119 I13-120
I13-121 I13-122 I13-123
I13-124 I13-125 I13-126

The bottom half (reflected illusion) of vaha kai at the end of Wednesday is, I guess, an illustration of what will come, a reflection of the first half of the week. Beyond Te Pei (number 8) the glyphs will flow in the opposite direction, waning is waxing seen upside down. I wonder if Fischer reflected upon this when he decided to number the G tablet as RR8.

The reflection can also account for the curious phenomenon of mago in Ga2-14 arriving before vaha mea in Gb2-10:

... 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 ...

Sun goes down in the west and then he travels 'with the moon' under the earth in order to be reborn in the east in the morning. In a cycle the directions steadily change in order to make a return.

I will now return to the proper path.