2. We have identified other kinds of 'head down' figures earlier:
Such glyphs evidently mean 'descending', and moe glyphs - we have seen - apparently are located 'inside the doorstep' to the new 'room'. Ea2-17 is probably also inside the 'doorstep' to the new season, because 217 = 3 * 72 + 1. Spring has 3 'feathers' and autumn 2 (and then 5 * 72 = 360). The new 'limb' will always begin before the old one vanishes completely: ... The final day of the month ... carried not the coefficient 20, but a sign indicating the 'seating' of the month to follow, in line with the Maya philosophy that the influence of any particular span of time is felt before it actually begins and persists somewhat beyond its apparent termination ... The head down motif in rona glyphs probably was used in the same way, and rona glyphs should therefore stand immediately inside the border line to a new season.
The bottom of rona is in my prototype presumably a nuku sign. In autumn there are no rima (arms, 'fire'). Nuku would then, I think, correspond to hakaturu (in the expression hakarava hakaturu) or to Runu ('the back wheel of the bicycle'). The appearance of 2 vowels u seems to be a sign for the 'back wheel' (and U means Moon in Mayan). The peculiar situation is that rona glyphs could have been used to indicate the end of runa when rona already has taken over - reminiscent of how moe indicates the end of the old season where the new season already has begun. The 'arms' in my rona example are to be understood rather as 'wings' than 'arms'. But with 2 wings it cannot be Spring Sun, because he has only one wing (kara etahi). |
