The physical limits of the K tablet made it impossible to have many more glyphs than 24 in a line:
But maybe the optimal number of glyphs in a line should be 36. If I extend my chart to 36 we can see that 22 and 36 will be in the same column, the column of Mercury (or of Venus if we let the numbers begin with 1 instead of 3):
36 = 5 * 7 + 1. My colour chart is based on 7, and therefore there must be twice 36 - if we wish to avoid an odd number as a remainder. The Mamari moon calendar has twice 36 glyphs. If we begin with Mercury as number 1, then he will also be at number 36. The beginning becomes the end also if we combine 7 with 36. But then the next number 1 (beyond 36) must be Jupiter. It seems that the days of the week will each begin a month, for instance:
If we let the year begin with winter solstice in December, then Jupiter will be the 7th month (because time does not count until we have measured 1 month, until - ideally - Venus has appeared). 36 = 20 + 16, and 12 * 36 = 432 = the number of glyphs in H divided by 3. Venus will 'rule' both January and August. But in order to let her rule also the following January it is necessary to imagine Mercury and Jupiter being in the dark puo state:
My idea presented above is based on the text of K, but it agrees quite well with how the ancient Chaldeans reasoned: ...the Chaldean astrologers introduced the 7-day week which has come down into the present. The number was convenient because the seers recognized seven planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each of which governed one hour of the day. If, for illustration, Saturn ruled the first hour of a certain day followed by each of the 'planets' in turn, he also ruled the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second hours. Jupiter was lord of the second, ninth, sixteenth, and twenty-third hours; Mars presided over the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-fourth hours, and the Sun took charge of the first hour of the succeeding day ... |
