6. We could here begin to analyze the signs in the picture of Adam, Tree-Serpent, and Eve:  The picture seems at first rather clumsily drawn, but such is not the case. It is drawn not naturalistic but mythic. First we can notice that Eve has a sign similar to poporo on her chest, and this 'shoot' is rising from behind the curtain of a great leaf. Adam, by contrast, has lost the top part of his corresponding sign. His leaf has 3 + 1 + 2 + 2 'flames' and perhaps the 3 relatively small ones at left represent Spring, which ends at midsummer with the great drop straight down. His hips are drawn so as to make us perceive the rounded disc of Sun. The leaf of Eve is more geometric in shape, with a great triangle like a pyramid (or the top of vero), below which are 3 smaller ones oriented downwards. Such a geometric design is probably meant as a cue for the viewer to count. Eve represents Moon, that we can be sure of. Naturally we therefore ought to base our counting on 177, and 177 / 3 = 59, i.e. the double-month of Moon. Another (supplementary) counting is based on 5 triangles, counting also the triangles at left and right of her hands. 177 / 5 = 35.4 which we immediately can understand as an allusion to 12 * 29½. Counting by Moon there are 354 days in a year. The strange arms which are drawn like legs are meant to make us see legs. In spring Sun is gradually growing in power and stature. Later he is initiated and comes to know his female queen. Not until then is he ripe enough to change from 'eating' to 'giving his fruit'. The spring phase needs hands to grab with, but legs come later. In Gb1-13 the kai gesture is turned upside down (together with his head) and a vae (leg) sign is the origin of this metamorphosis:
Summary for vae in my outline glyph dictionary:
To which can be commented that when the thumb has been changed into a mata, we can guess it represents next little 'fire', cfr the central sign in Gb1-12. And if vae indicates when Sun is going away it agrees with Gb1-13. Number 13 is the unlucky number because Sun ends his days here:
In the babylonian zodiac Jupiter is located at the end of the 2nd quadrangle below the head of Leo:
It could mean the head of the lion 'is' one part of Jupiter, and presumably it also indicates the point where Old Sun becomes 'Father Light', sires next little 'fire' - the head of the serpent is equally close as that of the lion. The feather headdresses of Eridu and Bow will not survive the point where the Milky Way makes a sharp bend at bottom. Sun does not continue to where our own year is ending but to the end of the first half of our year. If Mad Dog stands at autumn equinox, then Sun will end his days at midsummer. But Ninmah has a little child in front of her and carries a Sun sign in her canoe hairdo. Once it was popular for the women on Easter Island, I remember, to carry hats formed like boats:
(Drawn 1872 by Pierre Loti, according to Thor Heyerdahl, Påskön, en gåta som fått svar.) |
