7. The first 3 glyph lines on the front side of the G text amount to 84 days, maybe to be thought of as 3 * 28:
Ga1 |
Ana-mua, entrance pillar |
Antares, α Scorpii |
-26° 19' 16h 26 |
Ga2 |
Ana-muri, rear pillar (at the foot of which was the place for tattooing) |
Aldebaran, α Tauri |
16° 25' 04h 33 |
Ga3 |
Ana-roto, middle pillar |
Spica, α Virginis |
-10° 54' 13h 23 |
Ga4 |
Ana-tipu, upper-side-pillar (where the guards stood) |
Dubhe, α Ursae Majoris |
62° 01' 11h 01 |
The thick neck of tagata on the front side suggests a strongly built man, and I once - without any deeper reflections - decided to use such a figure as my standard tagata character:
Probably this athletic figure personifies the front side, the side of Sun, while the other variant with a tall and slender neck refers to the side of Moon. The numbers (5 respectively 8) are in harmony with such an interpretation.
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Ga1-2 |
Ga1-11 |
Ga2-1 (32) |
Ga4-1 (85) |
Gb1-5 (235) |
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Gb5-6 (360) |
Gb5-27 (381) |
Gb6-2 (385) |
Gb6-6 (389) |
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Gb6-9 (392) |
Gb6-12 (395) |
Gb6-15 (398) |
Gb8-9 (451) |
Takaure in Ga4-2 has a slender neck, a further argument for this type of neck indicating the season when Sun is absent.