In the 6th period of the Small Santiago calendar another haś glyph, designed in a different way, presumably tells about when the 'gods' descend to the earth:
16 (mostly dot-like) marks are distributed rather evenly around the outer perimeter, but they come into contact with the 'branch' at only two places. Otherwise they fly above. The 9th and 10th marks are feather marks - not dots. They touch the ground (the 'branch'), they do not fly above (dots). Equally: the 13th, 14th and 15th marks are feathers (not dots). The 'branch' presumably illustrates the path of the sun over the 'summer year', and at crucial times the gods assemble, come down to earth. In the 11th and 16th periods (those immediately following the 9th and 10th respectively the 13th, 14th and 15th periods) we can read how the gods have departed again:
Ga4-13 and Ga5-3 are the only end-of-period glyphs in the calendar where the top of the rectangular vertically oriented shape at right (henua) is open, probably a sign which indicates that the 10-period season (respectively the 15-period season) has left. |
