Against the background of the calendar cycle of expanding creation a more precise map of the yearly path of the sun is presented. The dilemma of 365.25 days being shorter than 432 is solved in an elegant way by locating the end of the solar cycle to the same place as the end of the long cycle:
The 42 night long voyage of sun into the underworld (from winter solstice to Hb9-63) is only imaginary (similar to moving away from the line of real numbers into the other dimension of imaginary numbers). Hanau in Hb7-42 is not real, the outline of the figure is not closed:
Real time continues from winter solstice in day 390 directly to the dark mago at Hb9-63 (where 63 possibly alludes to a reversed 36). With the calendar cycle beginning again at Hb9-63 there must be 13 * 30 = 390 days in real time (12 * 30 days is not enough for a year) according to the calendar. 432 - 42 = 390. This of course means there must be a time overlap of ca 25 days (= 390 - 365⅓), with the old year continuing into the beginning of the new year. Calendar day 1 with the dark mago is also day 366⅓ of the old year. 390 - 366⅓ = 24⅔. Counting 24 glyphs from the dark mago we arrive at glyph number 1122 + 24 = 1146 (from Ha1-1), and adding the fraction (⅔) we come to Hb10-22. The old year is tagata (complete) and vae says he is leaving, then follows (significantly) a niu glyph:
Counting with 1 glyph per day we have advanced from the dark mago in Hb9-63 to Hb10-22 and found day number 365⅓ + 24⅔ = 390. The glyphs keep order in the text. In the 9th of the dark nights of the calendar cycle the old year is leaving. It is winter solstice according to the calendar of the solar cycle. But the new year goes according to another calendar. However, to simplify matters we have here counted with 1 glyph per day instead of 3 glyphs per day (which was used to move from Ha1-27 to Hb9-63), and yet the text clearly indicates the end of the year at Hb10-22. We could equally well have moved ahead with 3 glyphs per day and reached the end of the year (day 390) further on and described with other glyphs:
The curious Hb11-1 here probably depicts the vanishing sun, and tagata in Hb11-4 has an elbow ornament (a tao sign) at left which means the old cycle now is in the past. The above is only one example of how different calendar cycles are integrated in an intricate way. The 432 * 3 = 1296 glyphs in H express both the positions in the long calendar cycle of creation and the positions in the shorter cycles (of which the solar cycle above is just one of several). |
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