There are no pure glyphs in the calendars we have been studying so far. The absence may be just a coincidence, yet the calendars map the real world, not the world of the spirits. In the text of G (Small Santiago Tablet) the glyph type is not represented anywhere, but in K (London Tablet) there is one instance:
Ka3-7 shows a variant of manu rere with an upraised arm and under its elbow an ornament is hanging down which definitely is pure. In the parallel Ga2-19 a different elbow ornament is seen, and its open end implies 'spirit'. The ordinal numbers (7 respectively 19) may allude to 1 past 6 (sun) respectively 1 past 18 (sun). Although this parallel 7-glyph long sequence lies before the calendar of the year they are in a way connected. |
