4. Kepler connected Saturn with a cube (I have copied the picture from Hamelt's Mill):
This idea was certainly not his own creation but a long tradition. In the G text we can therefore guess there is a connection between number 27 (= 3 * 3 * 3) and Saturn. 8 (= 2 * 2 * 2) is the smallest cube, but this number is not 'coloured' by death (9). 256 = 8 * 32 and 216 = 8 * 27, therefore 472 = 8 * 59. If Saturn should be anywhere in the G text it ought to be among those 216 glyphs which begin with Gb2-1:
126 (= 252 / 2) here changes to 216. 10 * 27 = 270 is not at a π glyph, but at a glyph (2-14) which can allude to 314. Counting from the beginning of what could be Saturn's rule (Gb2-15) there are 108 glyphs up to and including glyph numer 378:
108 = 4 * 27. 381 (at tagata in Gb5-27) + 64 = 445, and from Gb8-3 to the end of side b there are 27 glyphs:
472 - 381 = 91 days, a quarter, i.e. 64 + 27 days. |
