4. Maybe the figure in Ga1-24 represents the 'sanctuary of the wolf-god':
Number 24 is easily connected with midnight, the time of ghostly apparitions. But there is nothing ghostly in atariki in Ga1-24. On the contrary, he is drawn with powerful lines without any gaps in his circumference and he is quite real.
The glyph is so distinctly drawn that I once decided to choose it as my prototype for the atariki glyph type. A little dot at right is positioned low in comparison with those in Ga1-20--21. The location of Ga1-24 is also distinct, because it comes in a postion 'one more' related to a cycle of 260 days:
In other words, Ga1-23 is the last glyph in this 260-day long cyclebeginning with Gb1-7 (presumably alluding to position 17 in a glyph line, the beginning of a new sequence of glyphs). And ordinal number 237 counted from Gb8-30 is 'one more' than 8 * 29.5:
Also Gb1-7 has the 'hour-glass' sign which indicates a point of turning upside down, cfr Ab6-66--67:
Number 496 emerges from comparing 236 with 260, and 496 = 4 * 124 which later number in turn seems to be reflected in Ga1-24. 496 is 24 more than the cycle of the text in G. |
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