The pattern on side a with 140 days in a central position flanked by twice 45 days is more easy to remember than the first 'objective' description with twice 44 days surrounding a central period with 142 days:
The greater symmetry makes it more easy to recollect, and the criterion of 'objectivity' should rely on symmetry rather than on simple undigested facts. Symmetry depends on perception. To perceive is to 'digest' inputs, and it is a slow process which requires repeated 'thinking'. What is perceived changes with time. The tails of the mago in Ga3-23 and Ga7-16 are drawn alike, while the tail in Ga2-14 on closer inspection is revealed to be different.
It explains why Ga3-23 is assymmetrically located, and not in the middle of the 140 day long period, because Ga3-23 is required to be where it is in order to define 4 'quarters' of 26 days. 4 * 26 = 8 * 13, and the perfect number 8 can here be perceived as connected with 13 day periods. On the other hand it is also connected with fortnights, because 8 * 14 = 112 (= 140 - 28). Sun has 8 periods with 13 days (104) and moon has 10 periods with 14 days (140). Sun is connected with the perfect 8 and moon with number 10 (which implies the cycle of life and death). 104 has 0 in the center, 140 at the end. 230 - 104 = 126 = 7 * 18, a combination of the basic moon count period (7 nights in a week) with a possible basic sun count period (18, a tenth of 180). 7 * 20 = 140 and 18 * 20 = 360. |
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