2. The first link in this short chain of reasoning, manu rere, is rather weak. By cause of its location at the very beginning of this glyph catalogue not much could be said at that point regarding its meaning. Indeed, the only secure foothold for a discussion still is the calendar for the week. Its appearance in Sunday immediately before moe indicates manu rere could be a bird flying at zenith:
Furthermore, planets cannot be seen during the night, and when sun is thought of as a planet it implies sun during the night. I.e. when he can be seen only by the inner eye. So if manu rere stands at zenith, it is the zenith of the night. If we change our frame of reference from space to time, manu rere should stand at midnight. Moe, which comes later, is not the time of sleep but of waking up, when there is a faint light of dawn in the east (to the right in the text). These considerations makes it plausible that also manu kake should be thought of as primarily related to the night sky. The ruling powers in the sky were planets and stars and they should be observed during the night. |
