2. Let us, however, begin by repeating why Ana-roto could be at glyph number 95:
Looking in my Polynesian wordlist I yesterday happened to notice hanau tama which means pregnant woman. The pieces seem to fit together. My glyph types tama-iti ('little child') and haka-ua ('making rain') are similar, and hanau means to be born, or to be brought into the world, or to bring into the world - what a pregnant woman will accomplish:
To make rain was an important task anciently: "It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder." (Michael D. Coe, Breaking the Maya Code.) Spica is the main star of Virgo and if any of the zodiacal constellations has the power to give birth it surely must be Virgo. And a birth is preceded by a release of fluid: ... When Hotu's canoe had reached Taharoa, the vaginal fluid (of Hotu's pregnant wife) appeared. They sailed towards Hanga Hoonu, where the mucus (kovare seems to refer to the amniotic sac in this case) appeared. They sailed on and came to Rangi Meamea, where the amniotic fluid ran out and the conctractions began. They anchored the canoe in the front part of the bay, in Hanga Rau. The canoe of Ava Rei Pua also arrived and anchoraged. After Hotu's canoe had anchoraged, the child of Vakai and Hotu appeared. It was Tuu Maheke, son of Hotu, a boy. After the canoe of Ava Rei Pua had also arrived and anchoraged, the child of Ava Rei Pua was born. It was a girl named Ava Rei Pua Poki ... If Ana-mua indicates the arrival of summer and if the arrival of summer is like dawn, an event similar to the birth of Sun as a child, then the time before Ana-mua should be like a season of pregnancy, and a release of fluids should come just before dawn. Vegetation (and all who thrive on the vegetables) will not begin to grow until rain has come. A season of growth must be preceded by rain. There are 46 days from Spica to Antares:
The present rectascension 13h 23m for Spica equals 803m, which we can translate into 803 / 4 = 200¾ days. Antares is at 16h 26m, i.e. at day number (16 * 60 + 26) / 4 = 246½. Spica is located between autumn equinox and winter solstice north of the equator and between spring equinox and summer solstice south of the equator:
The day numbers for the cardinal points in my table above are counted from the beginning of the year, not from spring equinox. Day number 80 + 200¾ = 280¾ is the position of Spica from the beginning of the year north of the equator. But south of the equator the day number for spring equinox is given as 87 because it has been counted around winter solstice, and 365 - 358 = 7. Counted from winter solstice north of the equator Spica is at day number 280¾ + (365 - 356) = 289¾. South of the equator Spica is at day number 87 + (200¾ - 186) = 102. I.e., counted from the beginning of the year Spica will be at day number 102 - (365 - 358) = 95. If we assume the G text is beginning with winter solstice, then Spica could be at glyph number 102 minus the effects of the precession since the calendar was created, for instance 102 - 5 = 97 (where 5 * 72 = 360 years). If, instead, the G text is beginning later than at winter solstice, e.g. 365 - 358 = 7 days later, then Spica could be at glyph number 97 - 7 = 90. But my guess is that possibly glyph number 95 was determined for Spica also after having considered several other factors, e.g. because 95 = 5 * 19 (both being Sun-day numbers). The baby to be born was Sun. The distance from autumn equinox to winter solstic is 92 days (and from the day after summer solstice 180 days):
92 + 8 = 100 could refer to the end of winter solstice (with 8 dark nights as when Venus is absent from the sky) , and we saw Ga4-16 as a possible candidate for this important event:
Then our attention shifted to Ga4-11:
The current day number 102 for Spica (counted from winter solstice south of the equator) possibly should be adjusted downwards to day number 95 because of the precession and an assumed creation time for the G calendar around 500 years ago. And maybe 12 + 8 = 20 dark nights are needed to 'give birth' to a new year:
Arcturus should be at glyph 108 if Spica is at glyph 95, because Arcturus is located 13 days later than Spica. 108 = 6 * 18 (= half 216) and 114 (at Ga5-3) = 6 * 19 (= 314 - 200), which implies day 95 (= 5 * 19) for Spica could have been chosen in order to get Arcturus at day 108 (19 days later). We need these tedious excercises in order to secure my hypothesis - as far as this is possible with the means at hand - viz. that the day numbers of the main stars in the sky correspond to glyph numbers in the text of G. |
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