7. If we try to divide the synodic cycle of Jupiter, 399 days, into 'Sun flames' we cannot reach a natural number, because 399 / 60 = 6.65. However, it should be mentioned here that the number of glyphs on the Tahua tablet is 670 + 664 = 1334, or quite close to 200 * 6.65 = 1330. We could try to count the other way, and 1334 / 200 = 6.67 and 60 * 6.67 = 400.2, possibly the intended number of chevron marks on the tresses of Pachamama. But presumably it should not be expressed in decimals but as 60 * 6⅔ = 400. "Gilgamesh is claimed to have been one of the earliest kings of Uruk (or Erech). The circumstances of his fabled birth make him two-thirds god and one-third man, which makes him - in the sexagesimal system of Mesopotamia - two-thirds of 60 (= Anu) = 40, the number which characterized Enki-Ea, whence the latter's denomination of 'Shanabi (= ⅔, i.e., of 60) and Nimin (Sumerian = 40)'." (Hamlet's Mill) If we try to divide the cycle of Jupiter into fortnights we will reach a somewhat better result, because 399 / 14 = 28.5, and this measure ought to be doubled because it seems implicitly to refer to the length of a month. Also, Jupiter appears both at position 9 and at position 16, i.e. twice in the cycle of a 'greater fortnight'. 2 * 28.5 = 57, a double-month which is halfway in length between 8 * 7 = 56 and 2 * 29 = 58. The location of Jupiter is halfway from the front side (28) to the back side (29), and the measure 28.5 is therefore just what should be expected. Jupiter in Gb5-9 has ordinal number 363 which is a palindrome, and here probably a sign of turning around from the front side to the night side:
The ear of Pachamama should be recalled, possibly indicating day number 14 * 26 = 364:
Maybe the rim around the hole of her ear represents the path of Sun. But the hole inside has also a rim. This ear of Pachamama is her right side ear, with her face looking towards right. The ear in Gb5-10 is reversed, with the imagined face looking back - i.e. the path of Sun has ended. |
