The arrival of the 'season of nuku' should be searched for where sun is fading away, and we can easily find where this happens in H and P:
In the Q text, however, there is no pare glyph parallel with Ha10-31 and Pa10-1. We can anyhow find where it should have been, viz. at the very end of side a. But the Q tablet is not so large as H and P, and certain parts of the text had to be left out. In Q the fading away of sun coincides with where the reader turns the tablet to continue reading on the back side. In a way it is a sign equally potent as a fading away pare glyph - side a is the 'front side', the side of spring sun, and darkness falls in conjunction with moon taking over. No easily recognizable nuku sign arrives in the Q text, though, until *Qb3-41:
This fact necessitates an explanation. |