4. Once again, if the hare paega picture should happen to illustrate a calendar cycle, then my table suggests this cycle could be the quarter from spring equinox to summer solstice:
After 5 * 29 = 145 dark nights summer evidently breaks the black cloth of winter
I have suggested this possibility already at Takaure:
At that time I still had not told of the necessity to count Gb8-30 twice, yet 151 + 85 = 236. Although Gb3-30 is glyph number 91 on side b, 3 * 30 = 90 suggests we have to add Gb4-1 in order to reach number 91. If so, then it will be natural to count 150 + 85 = 235 and then we need to add Gb8-30 also at the beginning of the front side to reach 236. This was quite too complicated to mention at Takaure. Counted from Gb8-30 the ordinal number of Gb3-30 is 230 + 91 = 321, as if the force of 'the fire' was abating - 3, 2, 1, and reaching zero at the reversed hau tea in Gb4-1. The season of takaure can (cfr at The Place Aloft) be measured as 182 + 86 = 266 days:
But if we count with Gb3-1 as the first day of winter and include Ga4-2 as the last day of winter, we will reach a better agreement with what the glyphs are telling and winter will then measure 268 nights. If we compare with the facts of astronomy, we can see that 266 can refer to autumn equinox:
291 - 266 = 25, a number which is quite similar to how 25 days - counted from Ga3-2 - precede spring equinox. But instead of 25 days before spring equinox, there are 25 days after autumn equinox (maybe implying a 'mirror' halfway between the quinoxes):
The 4 beaks and wings of manu kake in Ga3-1 is a sign of Moon, yet 4 * 29½ = 118. Counting with 29 nights per month the first 4 months will end with Ga2-26 and counting with 30 days per month the first 4 months will end with Ga3-1.
Maybe we should read 2 glyphs at a time for Moon. From Ga3-2 (62) there are 25 glyphs to spring equinox:
If we count 25 glyphs backwards from the great takaure glyph in Gb3-1, we should arrive at autumn equinox:
4 + 20 + 3 = 27 can be compared with 2 + 3 * 7 + 4 = 27 in my table:
|