We can see that 100 days (= 178 - 78) beyond the end of the first cycle of the sun (182 days long) a pare glyph illustrates that sun is leaving, moving north 'to his winter maid':
With Ha5-19--24 as 2 intercalated days at the beginning of the 2nd cycle there ought to be 3 * 180 = 540 glyphs from Ha5-25 to the end of the cycle. But instead of rushing away to premature conclusions, we should continue from day 179, where ua initiates the new season:
But the text is destroyed here and we cannot follow the development in detail. However, the number of destroyed glyphs can be reconstructed and then it emerges that two honu glyphs together serve to delineate the season beginning with day 179 and ending with day 244, i.e. 66 days long:
The position of honu at left in Ha10-35 means its season is in the past, we have learnt from G, and reasonably its position at right in Hb2-35 means the opposite - a honu season has begun. |
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