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8. Vega is a powerful source of light in the night sky and it cannot be ignored. In contrast ω Gemini is hardly possible to detect. When ancient people worked out an elaborate map of the stars in the sky they must have defined the position of Vega before considering what star to choose as a mark 10 lunar months later. Therefore the string instrument in Gemini is a Sign which via its ω star connects to Vega. We can hardly doubt this. But the G text is what primarily interests us. Here hakaturou in position 42 is a very obvious Sign:
What we need is more convincing arguments for Vega being where my model has put it. The left element of Ga8-15 (a variant of nuku) has a curve at the top which could 'mirror' the curve at the bottom of hakaturou in Ga2-11:
The text clearly intends to show a discontinuity between Ga8-15 and Ga8-16, although the curved neck in Ga8-16 presumably is meant to reflect the curves at the top in the preceding glyphs. The first such example is Ga7-21:
Looking in the other direction, ahead, we can see that Ga8-16 probably refers to the 1st glyph on side b:
The signs are promising, but we have to wait until we arrive at the end of side a for the 'proof' we hope to find. |
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