4. The distinction I have drawn between 'living' (capable of movement) entitities (haś ke) and immobile ones (like trees) could in C coincide with a distinction between the front side and the back side of the tablet:
The winter season is opposite in character to the lively spring time. Therefore haś ke glyphs could have a tendency to appear on the front side of the year. With 14 glyph lines on both sides of the tablet the ordinal number of line Cb10 becomes 24, and 24 - 6 = 18 or half 36(0). Or maybe rather = 360 / 20 and indicating a 'greater 18' season. Metoro's triplet of 'kiori' (not kiore) for Ca6-7--9 could refer to Spring Sun, 'eating' for 3 periods. If so, then it is not astonishing to find a haś triplet half a year later. Haś glyphs presuambly illustrate the path of a luminary all the way to its end point. There are 7 + 7 + 6 'feathers' in the first triplet and 14 + 14 + 11 in the second. 14 = 2 * 7, but instead of 2 * 6 = 12 there are only 11 'feathers' in Cb10-11 (where 11 is also the number of the glyph in the line). Moon has 2 glyphs (Ca6-7--8 respectively Cb10-9--10) but Sun has only 1 'limb', and furthermore he is 'cut short' at his end in order to enable 'one more' to arrive - there can be only 1 Sun at a time. If my guess is correct, then the haś ke glyph type should be regarded as related to haś and my label haś ke would be appropriate - the opposite of haś and a sign of the luminary rising rather than going down. |
