7. Dubhe once was postioned 'where the guards stood' but for Arcturus presens was used, 'a pillar to stand by' (if we can rely on the translation). To stand up is to rise what the sky roof does in spring. But day number 108 was located before Sun arrived (at Ana-mua), i.e. Arcturus stood in 'early dawn':
... Arcturus is the palace of the emperor. The two groups of three small stars on its right (ν, τ, υ) and left (ζ, ο, π) are called She ti, the Leaders, because they assign a fixed direction to the tail of the Bear, which, as it revolves, points out the twelve hours of the horizon ... The 'palace of the emperor' is presumably formed as a regular pentagon - alluding to 5 as in 'fingers of fire' - and located at winter solstice (cfr at Ana-tipu):
The rectangle ('earth') has 4 corners, each corresponding to a quarter of a 360-day long year. A half-year will then be like a triangular form (as when you divide a square straight across by a diagonal)., and the corners will be measured as 2 * 45 + 90 = 180, which suggests the corners of the square where one half-year turns into the next must be divided in equal halves. I.e., when Mercury is perceived as half man and half woman it indeed corresponds to his location. He straddles midsummer. Likewise must the area centered on winter solstice be divided in two halves, but there is no other planet which needs to be divided - when Mercury had been allotted his place the rest of them were 6. The 5-cornered palace of the emperor lies beyond the 360 days of the year. Maybe each corner in earthly terms measures just 1 day, because 365 - 360 = 5. Myth definitely affirms the possibility of another timescale for the land of gods ('sea'):
There evidently are 108 glyphs (nights) beyond the end of the year:
Also 2 * (52 + 1) = 2 * 53 = 106 is probably a measure for the end of the text, and 366 + 106 = 472. 472 - 2 * 108 = 256 = 8 * 32. In a pentagonal cosmos our own land should measure 4 * 108 = 432 instead of 4 * 91 = 364. Maybe we here have an argument for number 68 being of importance, because 4 * (108 - 91) = 68. Ga4-24 (where 42 * 4 = 168) could indicate the limit of the 'palace of the emperor'. Yet a further 34 (half 68) days are needed to reach the 'prow of the ship' (Ana-mua). 142 - 108 = 34, and 142 / 1½ = 95, Ana-roto.
Ga4-24 has the same numbers as Gb4-24, maybe because this glyph could indicate the limit of the palace on the other side of winter solstice:
472 - 344 = 128 (and 128 + 108 = 236 = 4 * 59). According to Moon time a corner should measure 354 / 3 = 118 nights (instead of 364 / 4 = 91 days). Thus, I dimly perceive, 128 - 108 = 20 could offer a possibility to let Moon and Sun once again go hand in hand. 118 / 2 = 59 are the last nights before the end of the text. This area could correspond to the first half of the 'the palace of the emperor', and 472 - 59 = 413 = 7 * 59, i.e. the mystical number of 'the earth turtle' (Pawahtun, cfr at 2 Sticks) combined with the lunar double-month. Indeed, this could be the limit beyond which 'the old home-land' is left behind, and 14 lunar months measure it:
59 + 109 (Arcturus) = (5 + 10) * 9 = 168. Counted from the beginning of the front side there is a Sun-day after 8 * 32 = 256 (= 472 - 2 * 108) days - we can compare 108 with night number 28 and 109 with night number 29 in the month:
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