4. Let us list all 7 tagata glyphs in the first two lines of the G text:
There is an adjunct in form of a high neck:
This adjunct is reflected, so to say, in short legs:
3 tagata glyphs in line a1 are followed by 4 in line a2, making 7 like the number of days in a week. But we can also perceive a pattern with (1 + 2) respectively (1 + 3), because the first tagata glyphs in each line appear to be related, apparently as opposites:
In Ga1-2 attention is drawn to the string with itiiti balls at left and in Ga2-1 (where 2-1 is the mirror image of 1-2) the toki arm at right is the main adjunct. There is a month (29 days) from the 1st to the 4th tagata. A string is the opposite of a limb:
If a string is hanging in front instead of at the back side it therefore should indicate a reversal, i.e. a position out in the broad daylight, as e.g. in Ga1-17:
The itiiti 'eyes' at left in Ga1-2 are in the 'night'. That eyes can come loose from the head is exemplified in a myth about a Jaguar competing with an Anteater: "M119. Cayua. 'The jaguar's eyes' The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out, the jaguar invited the anteater to a juggling contest, using their eyes removed from the sockets: the anteater's eyes fell back into place, but the jaguar's remained hanging at the top of a tree, and so it became blind. At the request of the anteater, the macuco bird made the jaguar new eyes out of water, and these allowed it to see in the dark. Since that time the jaguar only goes out at night. Having lost fire, it eats meat raw. It never attacks the macuco - in the Apapocuva version, the inhambu bird, also one of the Tinamidae ..." (Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked. Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 1.) |
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