Counting the path of Sun by multiples of 13 will give him (6 + 14) * 13 = 260 days:
472 - 260 = 212 (= 4 * 53 = 16 * 13 + 4) days - or nights - are left for the cycle of Moon. We have here found a Sun path structure which is similar to the tzolkin of the Mayas (cfr at haga rave), where the measure is also 13 * 20 = 260 days: ... the more famous tzolkin (for their sacred year), which was composed by the numbers from 1 to 13 prefixed to one of their 20 daynames, for instance as 13 Ahau - the last of the 13 numbers conjoined with the last of the 20 daynames (Ahau). This gave 13 * 20 = 260 possible dates ... Evidently number 13 was used in order to form a structure in G. And number 20, the last night to be counted in a month according to the Gilbertese (cfr at ua), is given to Moon in my planetary chart:
The 20th Mayan dayname Ahau should be a time for 'binding' Sun, and we can see how he has descended low in the west (cfr at rima):
Ahau is a word close in sound and meaning to hau, for instance in Mangarevan hahau, 'tie with cords':
Sahagun, we remember, have told us what must be done when old years were about to be 'bound': ... Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water. Also (were) these (cast away) - the pestles and the (three) hearth stones (upon which the cooking pots rested); and everywhere there was much sweeping - there was sweeping very clear. Rubbish was thrown out; none lay in any of the houses ... Lewis Carroll has in his masterpiece describing cyclic time (t), A Mad Tea-Party (Carroll, p. 68), created a character fitting for the event of Sun going down, viz. 'The Mad Hatter':
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