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241141 + 100.

The Mayas shifted their attention from one side of the year to the other by adding 168:

... More processions followed, during which, the king moved about - as Professor Frankfort states in his account - 'like the shuttle in a great loom' to re-create the fabric of his domain, into which the cosmic powers represented by the gods, no less than the people of the land, were to be woven ...

Reasonably it meant they here saw the year as divided into periods with 168 / 7 = 24 weeks.

1820 / 168 = (1848 - 28) / 168

11 * 168 - 28 = 10 * 168 + 140 (24 weeks - 4 weeks):

In a year there was room for 2 * 168 = 336 days = 48 weeks.

364 - 336 = 28

364 = 48 + 4 = 52 weeks = 13 * 28 days

Anciently they saw the month (ideally) as 4 weeks:

... Ancient calendar-makers seem to have interposed the day which had no month, and was therefore not counted as part of the year, between the first and last of their artificial 28-day months: so that the farmer's year lasted, from the calendar-maker's point of view, literally a year and a day ...

The fabric of the ideal cosmos was based on tradition and carefully preserved, and therefore possible to be perceived by everyone. It was a Holy Graphic:

... The subject has the nature of a hologram, something that has to be present as a whole to the mind

¹ In optics, 'hologram' is the interference patterns of light with itself; i.e., every part of an image is displayed at every point, as if every point looked at every source of light ...

And therefore it was necessary to define e.g. the location of Betelgeuze as 168 days counted from the beginning of the Gregorian year:

14

114

214

314

414

5 (large calabashes full of flies) * 214 1070 → 471 (glyphs on the G tablet) - 364

74 + 14

88 + 100 = 188

288

388

488

BETELGEUZE (*88)

ALGORAB

NUNKI (*288)

υ Andromedae (*22)

HEAP OF FUEL

ETAMIN (*271)

ANKAA (*5)

ω Gemini (*105)

HEZE (*205)

HEAVENLY RAFT

364 (14 * 26) - 354 (12 * 29½) = 10 is a fact which could have motivated the creator of the G text to locate the atariki glyph at Ga1-24 corresponding to APRIL 14 instead of 10 positions later in his text:

APRIL 12 13 (468) 14 (104) 15 (*390) 16 (*26)
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26
Gb6-5 (229 + 158) Gb6-6 (388) Gb6-7 Gb6-8 (161 φ) Gb6-9 (391)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
μ Columbae (86.1), SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9) Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48.0 = *89.4 - *41.4
μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)
June 15 16 17 (168 → 2 * 84) 18 19 (*90)
°June 11

12

13 (*84) 14 (165) 15
'May 19 20 21 (*61) 22 (142) 23
"May 5 6 7 (127) 8 9 (*49)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
OCT 11 12 13 14 15 (288)
KELB ALRAI (Dog of the Shepherd) = β Ophiuchi, μ Arae (268.1), KEW HO (Nine Rivers) = μ Herculis (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), APOLLYON = ι Scorpii (268.9) MULIPHEN (Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0), BASANISMUS = G Scorpii (269.5), PHERKARD (Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae Minoris (269.9) PTOLEMY CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9) RUKBALGETHI GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN (Head) = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8) CAT'S EYE = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9)
Dec 14 (*268) 15 16 (350) 17 18
°Dec 10 (*264) 11 12 13 14 (348 → 208 + 140)
'Nov 17 (*241) 18 19 20 21 (325)
"Nov 3 (*227) 4 5 6 (310) 7
Ga8-1 (204) Ga8-2 Ga8-3 Ga8-4 Ga8-5 (208)

On the other hand, he must also locate the culmination (at 21h) of Betelgeuze at a place of prominence:

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

NOV 25 (329 → Antares) 26 (*250) 27 (366 - 35)
Gb1-20 (249 → Antares, *249) Gb1-21 (→ 121 → Beltane) Gb1-22
PLACE OF THE SUN:

μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI (Tail of the Swan) = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8)

Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 (Good Fortune of the Swallower) / Dhanishta-24 (Most Famous) / Girl-10 (Bat)

YUE (Battle-Axe) = Ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8)

BETELGEUZE (α Orionis)

BATEN ALGIEDI (Belly of the Goat) = ω Capricorni (315.8)

... ε, 3.4, was Al Bali, the brightest one of the 21st manzil, Al Sa'd al Bula', the Good Fortune of the Swallower, which included μ and ν; these last also known as Al Buläān in the dual. Kazwini said that this strange title came from the fact that the two outside stars were more open than α and β of Capricorn, so that they seemed to swallow, or absorb, the light of the other! ...

"The corresponding sieu, Mo, Mu, Niu, Nü, or Woo Neu, a Woman, anciently written Nok, was composed of these stars with the addition of another, unidentified, ε being the determinant; and the same three were the Euphratean lunar asterism Munaχa, the Goat-fish, and the Coptic Upeuritos, the Discoverer ..." (Allen)

Jan 28 (393) 29 (*314) 30
°Jan 24 (389) 25 (*310) 26
'Jan 1 (366) 2 3 (*288)
"Dec 18 19 (*273) 20 (354)

... And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it ...

THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
MAY 26 (146 → *130 + 16) 27 (330 - 183 = 147) 28 (148 → 80 + 68)

Al Nathrah-6 (Gap)

BEEHIVE (Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses) = M44, ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)

*89.0 = *130.4 - *41.4

Extended Net-26a (Ox) / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)

η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE = Bow and Arrow = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)

*90.0 = *131.4 - *41.4

ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)

*91.0 = *132.4 - *41.4

Ga3-7 (66 → *130 - 64) Ga3-8 Ga3-9
July 29 (146 + 64 = 210) 30 31 (395 - 183 = 212)

'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!'  //  How I wonder what you're at!'

Vero. To throw, to hurl (a lance, a spear). This word was also used with the particle kua preposed: koía kua vero i te matá, he is the one who threw the obsidian [weapon]. Verovero, to throw, to hurl repeatedly, quickly (iterative of vero). Vanaga. 1. Arrow, dart, harpoon, lance, spear, nail, to lacerate, to transpierce (veo). P Mgv.: vero, to dart, to throw a lance, the tail; verovero, ray, beam, tentacle. Mq.: veó, dart, lance, harpoon, tail, horn. Ta.: vero, dart, lance. 2. To turn over face down. 3. Ta.: verovero, to twinkle like the stars. Ha.: welowelo, the light of a firebrand thrown into the air. 4. Mq.: veo, tenth month of the lunar year. Ha.: welo, a month (about April). Churchill. Sa.: velo, to cast a spear or dart, to spear. To.: velo, to dart. Fu.: velo, velosi, to lance. Uvea: velo, to cast; impulse, incitement. Niuē: velo, to throw a spear or dart. Ma.: wero, to stab, to pierce, to spear. Ta.: vero, to dart or throw a spear. Mg.: vero, to pierce, to lance. Mgv.: vero, to lance, to throw a spear. Mq.: veo, to lance, to throw a spear. Churchill 2.

And an ideal location would be day 314 (→ the number for π) and it had to be displayed by an eye-catching extraordinary glyph which ought to be associated with some well-known myth:

... The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out, the jaguar invited the anteater to a juggling contest, using their eyes removed from the sockets: the anteater's eyes fell back into place, but the jaguar's remained hanging at the top of a tree, and so it became blind. At the request of the anteater, the macuco bird made the jaguar new eyes out of water, and these allowed it to see in the dark. Since that time the jaguar only goes out at night. Having lost fire, it eats meat raw. It never attacks the macuco - in the Apapocuva version, the inhambu bird, also one of the Tinamidae ...