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With 182 days between Gb3-23 and Gb2-10, we could - maybe - read a jump in the calendar from day 366 to Gb8-30:

     
Gb8-30 (1) Ga3-22 Ga3-23 (83) Te Pou Gb2-11 Gb5-12 (366)
82 182 100

364 + Gb2-9--10 = 366. The jump is 471 - 366 = 105 = 3 * 5 * 7.

I recall that I once thought the Maya Indians used their 'shark' (xoc) sign as a point of adjusting their calendar to the celestial processes.

... One of the discoveries which did the most to reopen some of the important questions about the nature of the Maya script was Thompson's (1944) demonstration of the great likelihood that xoc 'count' was represented in the inscriptions by the head of a large fish, the xoc or 'shark' ...

It would be nice to let Ga3-23 be exactly right, exactly half a year before Sirius. But the jump, as described above, occurs between Gb5-12 and Gb8-30, not between Ga3-22 and Ga3-23. Or does it?

A better alternative (than Ga3-23) could be Ga2-14:

221
Ga2-14 (45) Gb2-10 (266)
222

It comes earlier in the calendar and it has half the vertex sign in Gb2-10. 2 * 14 = 28 suggests we should redraw our map into:

220  
Ga2-14 Ga2-14 (45) Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Gb5-12 (366)
224 = 8 * 28 100
324 = 9 * 36

471 - 324 = 147 = 3 * 7  * 7, a number we saw just a moment ago:

Ga6-5 Ga6-6 (147) Ga6-7 Ga6-8
*Kb2-12 *Kb2-13 *Kb2-14 *Kb2-15 (134)

Furthermore, 147 is 471 with 1 at the beginning instead of at the end. What is 'fact' and what is 'fiction'?

If we deduct 43 (the number of glyphs from Gb8-30 up to and including Ga2-13) from 147 we have 104 = 2 * 52 = 4 * 26 = 8 * 13.

472 - 222 = 250, does it mean the moon has 5 * 50 nights and sun 6 * 50 days?

It is clear that the solar year is described in several places in the text of G. This fact should not bother us if we allow ourselves to jump when we reach the end of one of those year. Why should we move all around the tablet and imagine a great cycle with 472 days?

In the glyph dictionary (at haga rave) I have presented a Mayan calendar:

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

Zotz (Xoc) is the end of the winter half of the year. The open mouth illustrates the same concept as vaha mea, the red opening.

South of the equator the shark with open mouth will illustrate the opening of autumn.

With a closed mouth we find the end of summer at Moan. 15 - 4 = 11 (the number for next half year), and it comes 11 * 20 = 220 days later.

South of the equator the closed mouth is - it seems - illustrated with a shark seen from the underside and with a closed jaw.

The Pukapukans said that the black jaw in the Milky Way was open during winter.

I ought to document these thoughts in the glyph dictionary. But I then must consider what has been said earlier, in the excursions at mea ke and haati:

With one day per glyph an overview of the K text could be mapped like this:

sun light barred spring sun leaves
ca 59 days ca 108 days ca 25 days
ca 192 days

One strong point for this model is that the calendar has two months before sun arrives, which is in agreement with how I have interpreted a Maya calendar:

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

20 days in each month means sun is 'barred' during 60 days (Pop, Uo, and Zip), and the open mouth in Zotz illustrates how light is returning (left means future here) ...

Hatinga Te Kohe

The 'breaking of the bamboo staff' at 12 * 29.5 = 354 could be a development following upon the introduction of a system with 12 months. On the other hand, a double final of the year may be an ancient structure. The Maya indians also had a double final, judging from their two drum months (Pax and Vayeb):

5 Tzek 6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol
9 Ch'en 10 Yax 11 Sac 12 Ceh
10 * 20 = 200
13 Mac 14 Kankin
15 Moan 16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu
8 * 20 + 5 = 165
19 Vayeb
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz

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