3. It might seem trivial and unnecessary to twist and turn the numbers like this, but eventually new insights might be the result. The tresses on the back side of the head of Pachamama have ca 400 chevron marks, quite too many for representing the nights of an ordinary year. The synodic cycle of Jupiter is a more plausible explanation. He seems to be connected both with number 9 (= 8 + 1) and number 16 (= 14 + 2), which we have discussed earlier, e.g. in our example text:
Eb7-9 probably represents the border line between the front and the back sides. The 'tree' is sinking low and the arrangement of the 'berries' has 3 at left and 3 in front, as if to state that there are 3 doublemonths in the past and 3 ahead. The design with an extra horizontal Pachamama tress coming in from the front side, without chevron marks, includes 8 bird heads with single-rimmed eyes on the front side, which is similar to how 8 glyphs are coming in the line before Eb7-9. By adding 'one more' bird head, with a double-rimmed eye, to those 7 hanging down from her hair the number of heads increases to 8 (equal to the number of glyphs from Eb7-9 up to and including Eb7-16). Or we could count with fortnights instead of months and count time on both sides of her hair, in which case the number of fortnights will be 14 + 2 = 16, and 16 * 14¾ = 236 (equal to the probable number of nights on the back side of the G calendar). Eb7-8 presumably represents 'June' with summer solstice. At that time of the year the direction of Sun's path turns around from rising to descending, and for a while it must be flat and horizontal in character, like the extra tress which arrives from the side of her face in order to connect to the back side of the Pachamama head. The extra horizontal tress on the left side of her head should correspond to the time of Mercury in Eb7-15, half a year beyond summer solstice. The symmetric arrangement on the outside of Eb7-14 indicates the glyph is standing at a border line, and having perceived this we can also see such an arrangement inside Eb7-8:
These symmectric signs are probably signs of haga rave:
When Sun is reaching a solstice he will slow down and stop to move, and evidently he is no longer travelling. Therefore he has entered a harbour of rest, a bay (haga). |
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