The suit of 4 glyphs at the beginning are not the 4 'Bacabs'. Only 2 of them are present, and they are hidden in the ground (Mercury and Saturn):
Moon and Mars (female respectively male) are located in that order as 'Bacab pillars' in the east (spring). Mercury and Jupiter ('female' respective male) are located in that order as pillars in the west (autumn). We can read that Mercury and Jupiter are buried at the beginning of the new calendar cycle. Autumn is in the past. They are not present for real, they can be seen only in our memory. The following Venus and Saturn are not present for real either. Sun is envisoned as alighted at Ka1-5 and Moon consequently is drawn as illuminated from Ka1-6. So Venus is not at the beginning of the week, Sun is. In my 7-day week chart for the nights of the month, however, she has first position:
It means that day 1 of the calendar round according to H should coincide with day number 3 of the month, and that day number 1 should belong to 'hilled up' Mercury:
Koti at Hb9-36 refers not only to the disorderly orbit of Mercury, when (s)he most of the time is hidden from view, but also - and foremost - to Mercury's position as last day of the year, where the flow of time is cut off (Hatinga Te Kohe). If you bend a branch until it breaks, the break surely will be somewhere in its middle. |