The last part of calendar I will also have 60 days if 2 glyphs are needed for 10 days:
Here I have, though, divided the time into 40 + 20 days, because the two Saturn glyphs (Yb1-4 and Yb2-4) are identical. Such an arrangement, I think, serves to define a season. Beyond Venus in the week comes Saturn. After Saturn comes Sun, and the last 20 days has a vai glyph with some kind of growth in front. It has 6 'feathers' in front but only 5 at left. The last glyph of the calendar is once again given to Mercury. 100 days have been added to the first 200:
The end is not defined exactly, the glyph disappears at right. Similarly, at day 260, the Mars glyph also vanishes in front:
The glyphs have deliberately been engraved so. Mars is a suitable planet for number 260, because this number seems to allude to summer, when Sun is at his best, while 40 days (of 300) are instead days of Saturn:
Here there is a sign in form of the vanished bottom halves of glyphs. 5 of the glyphs have this sign. With 5 days per glyph it means 25 days - which we know is short for the time of Saturn. He is in charge of creating a new 'fire', and we can interpret the half-visible glyphs as illustrating submersion - only their top halves can be seen. If the old fire has been submerged by a deluge of rains, then of course a new fire must be alighted. There are no 'fingers' visible in Yb1-5 (Sun). The creation of a new fire in this time of darkness seems to be a matter involving Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus. Mercury is (according to my structure) standing at day 265, an important number suggesting 100 days left to day 365 where a solar year will end. 265 can also be interpreted as 260 (old fire) + 5 (new fire). The extraordinary Jupiter glyph is first of all illustrating the concept of koti - the little 'rising fish' in front seems to symbolize the new fire. The tree-like overshadowing arm at left has a stringlike thumb instead of the normal thumb. It means we should not count rima (5) but 4. Possibly it means that 4 'quarters' are in the past (spring sun has 3 and Venus has 1). The thumb as a single string seems to illustrate Venus rather than Sun. It is the thumb who creates next generation. The prominent elbow probably is a sign of kava. Venus at Yb2-3 is given a waning moon crescent, and during the last quarter of the moon next month will be in preparation. My imagination adds: For 40 days and nights it rained heavily and the earth became totally submerged. In the ark of Noah all the land creatures were sheltered until earth would show again above the waters. The expression 'day and night' presumably means we should count 2. I.e, we need twice as many glyphs as usual to compensate for the dim light. |
