3. Viri glyphs resemble ua glyphs, not only in shape but also in meaning:
Both are signifying the arriving 'darkness' of the ruling season, both are female in character, and both should be imagined turned 90º to the right. According to how ua is located in the calendars of K and E - as the last glyph of 'summer' - also viri ought to be positioned as the last glyph of a ruling season. Cfr the earlier text: "The ua glyph type seems to be associated with the arrival of the season when sun no longer is high in the sky. In the K calendar, for instance, the only ua glyph is the last glyph in what probably was regarded as the summer half of the year:
108 glyphs for summer was chosen because the winter half of the year then would have 24 + 10 + 50 = 84 glyphs. A balance between the two halves of the year can therefore be expressed by 6 * 18 (summer) and 6 * 14 (winter). 18 is a natural choice for summer, a short expression for 180 days, and 14 will be the corresponding expression for a fortnight when moon stands high in the sky. The parallel ua glyph in E is located 3 * 18 = 54 glyphs from the middle of the calendar, but then follows only 21 glyphs up to the end. Instead of 192 this E calendar has a total of 150 glyphs. Instead of 108 + 84 the pattern is 108 + 42 (half 84). Instead of 18 and 14 there is 18 and 7. But also in E ua is positioned as the end of the 3rd quarter." |
