A few preliminary remarks and imaginations: 1. The top of the maro glyph type, as exemplified in the prototype, exhibits a sign like that at the top of tagata: tagata maro It could indicate midsummer, noon, or some other location characterized by a high position. The left-right symmetry with 'eyes' (mata) flanking a peak is suggestive. In high summer the earth is dry (maro). Water runs downhill and the high peaks become dry and barren. Gb1-7 is a glyph which we recognize from the beginning of the 2nd half of the text (which is 472 glyphs long), and it suggests the interpretation above could be true: Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (237) When high summer is over - at the end of 8 months from the beginning of side a - then the maro sign should be inverted. Counted from winter solstice (Rogo in Gb6-26) Gb1-6 represents day number 64 + 236 = 300, and the 10 - equal to the number of fingers on both hands - months of the sun should end here. But the termination of the first 8 lunar months (8 * 29.5 = 236) is what has influenced the picture. There are 3 'feathers' both at right and at left, and this balance cannot refer to the end of sun's 300 days. The maro figure has been turned 180° to the right as if to illustrate a fall. The lefthand and lower 3 'feathers' have been transferred to a higher position at the right side. Flexible as the strings are, the 'feathers' are still hanging down. A peculiar ure sign emerges from the former lefthand 'string of feathers'.

To get a better look:

Gb1-7 (237)

The righthand maro string is drawn to emphasize how high also the central figure is. A hint of 'spreading out' explains why the bottom of this figure is wide.

An abrupt 'knee' characterizes the beginning of the righthand maro string, while the lefthand string shows a softer (female) curve. Yet, it suddenly (with another knee) changes into what from this perspective looks like the bent neck of some kind of bird. In Gb8-24 another of similar kind is located at another significant point in time:

	228
Gb1-7 (237)		Gb8-24 (466)
230

230 days is the lenght of the 'front side' according to G, and here the 'back side' is defined to also be 230 days long - it seems.

In the inverted picture of Gb1-7 we can perceive a backward looking (imaginary) bird, generated from the first of the 3-feathered maro strings. In Gb8-24 the 'bird' tagata is drawn with a closed perimeter, and instead another sign at top right is imaginary.

8 * 24 = 192, all three numbers unanimously say 'final', strengthening the sign of looking back.

237 can be interpreted as 23, seven of them, in a reversed pattern because these 7 groups of 23 days lie at left. 23 weeks = 161 = one more than 160. If a 30-day month should be divided in the middle, and odd numbers must be avoided, then the result surely must be 16 + 14 (with the longer 'half' being waxing). 10 such 16-day periods will be 160. And 360 = 160 + 200.

466 will by the same method be 46 * 6 = 23 * 12 = 276 = 11 times 25 + 1. And 23 * 7 + 23 * 12 = 23 * 19 = 437.

If there is a 'hidden' hint in Gb1-7 combined with Gb8-24 meaning we should look for day 437 (= 237 + 200), then we will find it 29 days counted from Rogo in Gb6-26:

Gb7-18	Gb7-19	Gb7-20	Gb7-21	Gb7-22	Gb7-23	Gb7-24
Gb7-25	Gb7-26 (437)	Gb7-27	Gb7-28	Gb7-29	Gb7-30

From Rogo up to and including the reversed bird tagata in Gb8-24 there are 58 = 2 * 29 (as in 229) days:

	170			26			28
Gb1-7 (1)		Gb6-25 (172)	Gb6-26		Gb7-25 (200)	Gb7-26		Gb8-24 (230)
172 = 4 * 43			58 = 2 * 29

172 = 409 - 237 appears to be rather meaningless. Maybe we should add 172 + 229 = 401. Or maybe we should read 172 = 472 - 300.

172 + 6 (from Gb8-25 to the end of side b) = 178. I.e. 242 (side b) = 6 + 178 + 58 = 184 + 58. There are 184 - 6 = 178 days from Gb1-1 to Rogo.