The distance from 400 to 636 is 236 (equal to 8 * 29.5):
It seems that the bird type manu kake could rule the time from new year to summer solstice. Then sun moves downwards, to his 2nd wife, his winter maid in the land of the fishes. A gradually increasing darkness could be the reason behind having only one wing in Ha12-7 and two in Ha12-9. The wings may be signs of viri, and we can compare with the 'egg-laying' bird in Ga5-8:
Here, however, we probably should interpret the viri sign to mean 'light' rather than 'darkness'. Ga5-8 stands at the beginning of the season when sun is arriving. Turning viri from its normal upright position into a horizontal one is like making viri falling on its face. Logic then makes us deduce that 236 glyphs from 400 to 636 in H presumably is equal to 236 / 2 = 118 days. The glyphs arriving just before confirm:
At left are powerful sky eating arms, at right there are 8 signs of maro connected to Y on vaha mea. 12 * 3 = 36, and 630 is the reversal of 36 (times 10). Vaha mea, we know, indicates the season when the sky roof is opening up after new year. Together with Y and maro it means that season is over. The double glyphs presumably refer to the moon with her two faces (waxing and waning), and 4 + 4 = 8 maro feathers is a sign of her leaving. The central fish (Ha12-3) probably is waning moon, because 7 glyphs earlier another such fish is without a 'cutmark' across:
We can conclude from the arguments above that the two fish manu kake in H probably are standing at the beginning of the 'quarter' when sun arrives, 118 days after new year. |
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