Midsummer is the time anciently regarded as the time of conception, when the sun flame of life will be transferred to an egg. The old one will live on in a new one and the old one must leave to give place for the new one (identical with the earlier one). I have suggested that hahe may refer to the old one and not to the new one. Indeed, we can imagine the body down in the grave ('hilled up like a potato') with a wooden cross up in the light:
On the other hand, the top 'cross' of niu glyphs normally is drawn open, i.e. presumably without life, while hahe glyphs tend to be drawn with closed outlines:
In Pa11-21 we can imagine the central rhomb as a 'nut' (or 'egg'), and then we will realize another (complementary) interpretation of Qb2-9 (than a sign of 'conjunction', 'copulation): The falling one in the foreground is divided in two parts by force of the rising one in the background. The falling one will live on as a new entity. The bottom part at left is ending and a new entity follows at right. Life goes on. |
