According to the Gregorian calendar at the time of the Pope the date °November 18 was when the Sun rose at the bent right knee (τ) of the overturned Hercules.
... In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ... Then we should count 10 (or maybe 10 - 4 = 6) days ahead in order to reach the beginning of the 23-day long circuit of Lono towards the December solstice. Cb2-23 could allude to these 23 days, but Cb2-19 is more expressive (toga meaning the cold winter somewhere down low in the southwest).
The gesture of bending a knee could mean submission, of being overpowered.
The Aztec lady with a Pax wooden drum could be leaning on some kind of support (like a church bell) for her left knee.
Maybe the wooden drum of Hercules (alias Egyptian Schu) had remained afloat in midair since he had left at high summer. ... Hercules first appears in legend as a pastoral sacred king and, perhaps because shepherds welcome the birth of twin lambs, is a twin himself. His characteristics and history can be deduced from a mass of legends, folk-customs and megalithic monuments. He is the rain-maker of his tribe and a sort of human thunder-storm. Legends connect him with Libya and the Atlas Mountains; he may well have originated thereabouts in Palaeolithic times. The priests of Egyptian Thebes, who called him Shu, dated his origin as '17,000 years before the reign of King Amasis' ...
But beyond the silent Moan, beyond day 300, there was no drumstick although the lady still remaining could have personified the complementary hollow log: ... The tun glyph was identified as a wooden drum by Brinton ... and Marshal H. Saville immediately accepted it ... [the figure above] shows the Aztec drum representation relied on by Brinton to demonstrate his point. It was not then known that an ancestral Mayan word for drum was *tun: Yucatec tunkul 'divine drum' (?); Quiche tun 'hollow log drum'; Chorti tun 'hollow log drum' ...
... The [tun] glyph is nearly the same as that for the month Pax ... except that the top part of the latter is split or divided by two curving lines. Brinton, without referring to the Pax glyph, identified the tun glyph as the drum called in Yucatec pax che (pax 'musical instrument'; che < *te 'wooden). Yucatec pax means 'broken, disappeared', and Quiche paxih means, among other things, 'split, divide, break, separate'. It would seem that the dividing lines on the Pax glyph may have been used as a semantic/phonetic determinative indicating that the drum should be read pax, not tun ... Thus, one may expect that this glyph was used elsewhere meaning 'to break' and possibly for 'medicine' (Yuc. pax, Tzel., Tzo. pox) ...
... Hercules is male leader of all orgiastic rites and has twelve archer companions, including his spear-armed twin, who is his tanist or deputy. He performs an annual green-wood marriage with a queen of the woods, a sort of Maid Marian. He is a mighty hunter and makes rain, when it is needed, by rattling an oak-club thunderously in a hollow oak and stirring a pool with an oak branch - alternatively, by rattling pebbles inside a sacred colocinth-gourd or, later, by rolling black meteoric stones inside a wooden chest - and so attracting thunderstorms by sympathetic magic ...
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