There is one more important haś glyph worth mentioning, viz. Ga2-23:
The number of feather marks are 4 (dots) + 2 (great) + 8 (normal) + 2 (dots) = 16. We should compare with Ga3-14:
Whereas in Ga3-14--15 there is a triplet of 'spookiness' (3 at the tip of the 'branch', 3 'toes', and the sign 3 at the top of the left part of Ga3-15), in Ga2-24--26 we can read the opposite - new life (new fire) formulated as triplets of fingers (thumbs not counted). There are more reversals. Reversal is also expressed in how the 4 spooky dot-like feathers in Ga2-23 have 'come down to earth' (are 'alive') in Ga3-14. The 2 great feathers following the 4 dots in Ga2-23 have, moreover, changed places in Ga3-14, where basically we have at first the 2 feathers meaning the 2 half-years and then the 4 feathers meaning the quarters. Ga3-14 probably describes the new year, while in Ga2-23 we see the 4 old quarters as 'spooky', no longer present with us (more than in our memory). 4 glyphs have been added above (Ga2-20--23) at the beginning of what in the preliminary exploration of the calendar (in the niu part of the dictionary) was referred to as period 0 (coming before the regular calendar). The total number of glyphs in the calendar thereby is raised from 136 to 140 (maybe meaning 10 fortnights, or 20 weeks, or 5 * 28, or 4 * 35). The 7-glyph sequence Ga2-20--26 has many parallel sequences in other texts, and certainly the 'period' was important. It refers to the time between the end of one year and the beginning of the next, when at first the old fire must be extinguished. |
