A key to our understanding is delivered by hanau in Aa4-55, 18 glyphs ahead:
The big 'baby' who is being born at Aa4-55 is the 'season of straw', and to be more precise Aa4-59 (4 glyphs later) stands at the end of the 'season of grass'. 4 * 59 = 8 * 29.5 and, to be sure, a new (white) 'eye' has been added in the curious glyph to the right (Aa4-60). The 'multiplying' (growing) season - indicated by hau tea drawn as if spreading out in Aa4-54 - has gone away, is only a 'ghost' now as illustrated in Aa4-58. The sign of 'straw' (non-growing) is in the future (at right) in Aa4-55 but in Aa4-61 (when the new birth is in the past) both hands are showing Y. Beyond Aa4-55 there are 364 glyphs (182 days) to the end of side a:
Counting from Aa4-60 the number of days are 180. The number of glyphs beyond Ab4-36 to the end of side b is 384 (equal to 192 days). If we wish to have 384 glyphs also at the end of side a we have to change Aa4-55 into Aa4-35:
The eating (kai) season - i.e. growing ('multiplying', 'spreading out') season, the 'season of leaf' - ends with Aa4-35. Life runs (flows) away (rima aueue in Aa4-36--37). |
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