The difference in length between the 472 days of G and the 432 days in H can be perceived as 40 inserted days beginning where H has Friday and G has the rising Venus fish:
In H the new cycle is beginning at 'one more' day after day 368 (which number can be read as 36 combined with the perfect number 8, a suitable number for the end of a solar cycle). It would be unlucky to end a calendar where 'time ends'. It is much better to let the end of the calendar coincide with the beginning of next cycle. In G the end of the cycle comes at Gb5-12, where 5 * 12 = 60, and where the ruling planet is Mercury (as if it was quicksilver which had run down into the pau foot):
The rising Venus fish in Gb5-14 is like Venus in day 369 in H - it is beyond the end of the old year. Although there is still no light - the 'feather' sign is inside the fish and cannot be seen from the outside. Counting from Friday in H there are 64 days to the beginning of the season of light (at Ha1-4), 192 glyphs = 64 days. In G the dark season has been extended to 40 + 64 = 104 = 8 * 13 days, and 40 can therefore be read as equal to 5 * 8. If we move from the rising Venus fish at Gb5-14 to honu at Gb6-26 (winter solstice), we will move 409 - 368 = 41 days ahead. If the sequence of planets continues, we will encounter 5 Venus days, 5 * 7 = 35. Honu will then be a Jupiter day, quite in order because Jupiter means 'father light' and at Gb6-26 a new 'light' will be born. In H there are only 63 days left from Friday to the end of side b. In a way it is logical to have Friday at day 369 instead of at day 368 as in G. 369 + 63 = 432 = 368 + 64. The last day on side b will also be a Friday, and Saturn is pushed away to the beginning of side a. If honu at Gb6-26 should be a day ruled by Jupiter, then it follows from the 40 inserted days added in G that the first of them must be a Venus day. 368 at Venus in Gb5-14 is not the natural place for her, and she has been forced to take that position in order to get Jupiter into the important winter solstice position. In H she has no such restriction and she can be at her natural place, at 'one more' than the end of the old cycle. Venus is the planet of procreation. |