We have come to understand that the beginning of the long calendar cycles in G and H begin with 58 dark nights at the end of side b, and that the first of these dark nights indicates tamaiti, the son of the sun, the morning shark with a very long nose:
The 'nose' (ihu) presumably represents the front of the sun season which ends after 10 months:
The front part is what comes first, i.e. first of all those 58 black nights, but possibly more nights. The spring shark maybe measures 294 days, and maybe its long nose stretches from Gb7-3 to Ga1-30, for 8 * 11 nights:
295 (at Gb1-7) - 88 (at Ga1-29) = 207 = half 414, a good sign, because sun ought to have half the 14-month cycle. 88 + 207 + 177 = 472. Moon should also have half a cycle, but - it seems - measured as half 12 * 29.5 = 354. We should notice that 207 + 177 = 384 = 2 * 192 = 12 * 32. The dark 'nose' seems to be outside the season of light, life, and growth. |
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