In the joints between the limbs of time life stands still. Trees do not move forward. For instance is the time beyond the end of one month and the arrival of next, the 29th night, such a joint in time. And when the ancient Egyptians counted the year to its end at day 360, the following 5 days where outside time - they did not count: ... Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children ... The cosmic tree has one end at winter solstice and the other at summer solstice. Or - which is equivalent - one end at dark new moon and the other at white full moon. No changes can be observed in total blackness nor in total white - the time cannot be seen. Without movement time stops. If you are blinded by the reflections of sun in the brilliant snow you can see no more than if in total darkness. In Keiti we will find a hupee in Ea2-17, in the 5th of 10 periods in som kind of calendar:
Here the hupee sign is formed to visualize 'upside down', an idea suitable for what happens after a 'joint'. When things move again the new direction is opposite to what was observed prior to the stop of the pendulum at the apex. We can compare Ea2-17 with Gb1-7 (another 1 and 7):
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