The 3rd waxing moon period ends with a haś glyph followed by a moon canoe while the 4th (first full moon) period ends with a pair of glyphs where a sun canoe comes before the full moon oval:
The haś glyphs are pictures of branches with feathers attached at the back side (tu'a). In Ca7-24 we can see a 'broken branch' at bottom inside an oval. The moon crescent canoe holding sun inside as passenger, Ca7-16, has a counterpart in Ca7-23, where a solar canoe has moon inside. Inside implies 'cannot be seen' (at least not in full). There is a reflection, as if a mirror was placed between the end of period 3 and the beginning of period 4. There is a different order between branch and canoe and there is also a reversal from moon holding sun inside to sun holding moon inside The 'passengers' are sun and moon and they meet (face to face) at full moon, as we all can see by looking at the well fed rounded full moon, a time for celebration and feast. The gods assemble in Ca7-15 because they will be the first to be served at the feast, in Ca7-24 the feast continues for the rest of the people (inside the full moon oval somebody is shown sitting down eating). Ca7-24 is a mirror-like reversal of Ca7-15. Not only is the branch broken, but it is the people who eat, not the gods. Furthermore, we can conclude from the full moon oval in Ca7-24 that there must be a non-oval sun (feather marked) glyph in Ca7-15, on the other side of the 'mirror'. Ca7-15--16 is a pair and so is Ca7-23--24. One pair reflects the other. In mixed double the pairs face their opponents. |
