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Ga2-20 (51) |
Ga2-21 |
Ga2-22 |
Ga2-23 |
Ga2-24 |
Ga2-25 |
Ga2-26 (57) |
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Ka3-8 (*54) |
Ka3-9 |
Ka3-10 |
Ka3-11 |
Ka3-12 |
Ka3-13 |
Ka3-14 (*60) |
Remarkably
ihe tau in Ga2-20 is drawn exactly as in
Ka3-8. It is a rare event to find glyphs
which are identical - although uniformed glyphs
could easily have been created.
The K
tablet is smaller than the G tablet and it
has only room for 5 + 5 = 10 glyph lines.
This fact, I suggest, made the creator of
the K text decide to concentrate on the
front side of the year.
When
I once painstakingly tried to estimate how
many glyphs these 10 lines had - or could
have had because there are several spaces
without any glyphs - I arrived at 192. At
that time this number had no meaning for me.
Later, though, I have come to recognize it
as the number of days for the front side,
e.g.:
... 70 days from what could be winter
solstice the tablet must be turned around
to side a, and then another 10 weeks are
needed in order to reach the midpoint
determined by Mercury. But
this idea implies we must count 4 * 70 = 280
in order to complete the whole circuit. Support
is given by the equation 472 - 280 = 192 ...
In
the G text there evidently are 192 days located from
Ga8-7:
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65 |
Gb6-20 (*1) |
Gb6-21 |
Gb6-22 |
Gb6-23 |
Gb6-24 (407) |
70 |
69 |
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138 |
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Ga3-10 |
Ga3-11 (*141) |
Ga8-6 (*280) |
70 |
140 |
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186 |
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Ga8-7 (211) |
Ga8-8 |
Ga8-9 |
Gb6-17 |
Gb6-18 |
Gb6-19 (402) |
192 |
I have suggested that side a
of G, with its star pillar structure, is
more likely referring to spring north of the
equator than to spring south of the equator,
and consequently I have implicitly hinted at
the possibility that spring south of the
equator could follow later on in the text.
Maybe it comes beyond Rehua in
Ga7-16.
186 happens to be the ordinal number of mago in Ga7-16 (presumably
the place of Rehua)
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Ga7-14 (184) |
Ga7-15 |
Ga7-16 (*256) |
Ga7-17 |
Ga7-18 |
Ga7-19 |
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Ga7-20 |
Ga7-21 |
Gb1-26 (256) |
Gb2-1 |
Considering the 6 glyphs
beyond Ga8-9 - which would have decreased
the distance 186 to 180 if I had included
them in my table for 192 - it becomes
possible to imagine a reversal at mago
which decreases the ordinal number 186 in the same manner:
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Ga8-10 (214) |
Ga8-11 |
Ga8-12 |
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Ga8-13 |
Ga8-14 |
Ga8-15 |
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Ga7-14 (184) |
Ga7-15 |
Ga7-16 (186) |
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Ga7-17 |
Ga7-18 |
Ga7-19 |
185 |
184 |
183 |
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Ga7-20 |
Ga7-21 |
Ga7-22 (192) |
182 |
181 |
180 |
Perhaps, therefore, Rei
in Ga7-22 - where π is 22 / 7 as at Rei
in Ga2-27 - stands at the same point in time
(so to say) as Ka1-1.
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Ga2-27 (*1) |
Ga2-28 (59) |
Ga2-29 |
Ga3-1 (*4) |
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Ga3-2 (*5) |
Ga3-3 |
Ga3-4 |
Ga3-5 (*8) |
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Ka1-1 |
Ka1-2 |
Ka1-3 |
Ka1-4 |
Ka1-5 |
Ka1-6 |
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Ga1-1 |
Ga1-2 (3) |
Ga1-3 |
Ga1-4 |
Ga1-5 |
Ga1-6 |
A reversal in counting around
Rehua could refer to the situation
north of the equator, where the apex of
Sun at noon will decrease
beyond midsummer:
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Ga7-5 |
Ga7-6 |
Ga7-7 (177) |
Ga7-8 |
Ga7-9 |
Ga7-10 (180) |
At glyph number 180 we can
count 7 * 10 = 70 as a possible allusion to
'not yet in 192'. But my critical mind
protests, it has already swallowed too much.